A Guinea orphanage made such a positive impression on Sarah Harris and Carrie Bezanson last summer that they jumped at the chance to return for an internship.  They were among the participants for the 2018 Mercer On Mission (MOM) three-week trip to southern Guinea. The Mercer team worked...
A Mercer University education professor is helping future teachers rediscover the joy and childlike wonder of science. In her class, EDUC 421: Science for All Learners, Dr. Meenakshi Sharma, assistant professor of science education in the Tift College of Education,...
About two weeks before Mercer University Opera was set to perform Donizetti’s comic opera, “Viva la Mamma!,” the University sent students home due to COVID-19.
Over the past year, a Mercer University team has honored 29 Korean War veterans through an innovative service project. Dr. Sinjae Hyun, professor and chair of biomedical engineering, began his work on the “Remembering Korean War Heroes” project during the...
A Mercer University research team hopes to improve relations between residents of an Atlanta community through a new online newspaper.  Dr. Arla Bernstein, assistant professor of communication in the Department of Liberal Studies at Mercer’s College of Professional Advancement (COPA),...
Dr. Nader Moniri, associate dean of research in the College of Pharmacy, received renewed funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue studying a key reason as to why common inhalation medications to treat asthma often become ineffective.  The...
Some of the sixth-graders hadn’t put much thought into their future. But by the end of the semester, they had dreams for their careers and goals to help get them there.   Twenty-four Mercer students worked with 48 students at Ballard Hudson Middle School during the...
MACON — A team from Mercer University School of Engineering has been selected to participate in the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP), which will immerse students in a NASA mission to collect and analyze data through stratospheric ballooning during...
ATLANTA – Mercer University’s College of Pharmacy recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support research to improve outcomes for individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS). The grant’s principal investigator is Clinton Canal, Ph.D., whose laboratory...
Mercer faculty members just wrapped up a whirlwind spring semester that was anything but normal. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they had one week in March to transition all their courses to an online format, with some requiring some major...

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