A Mercer professor’s research has sparked awareness and further investigation into the environmental impacts of animal agriculture. Most recently, the collective findings of Dr. Vasile Stănescu and other researchers were used for an article in The New York Times.
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In December 2018, Mercer announced the University’s most recent rise within the Carnegie Classification®, the leading system of recognizing and describing academic diversity within U.S. higher education institutions since 1973. Among 30 categories, Mercer was elevated to the second-highest level — Doctoral University with High Research Activity (R2) — representing the University’s second promotion within the classifications since 2014.
More than 100 students, faculty, staff and trustees gathered on Nov. 11 at the School of Engineering to dedicate the new Sheridan Mercer On Mission Center, funded in 2021 by a $10 million endowment gift from the Phil J....
Nearly 50 years after they played together on Gregg Allman’s “Laid Back” tour, a group of Southern rock legends reunited at the historic Capricorn Sound Studios.
Tommy Talton, a prolific guitarist and co-founder of the band Cowboy, assembled the musicians...
Sitting in a community meeting in Juliette in early 2020, Evey Wilson Wetherbee was struck by the emotion that filled the room. Residents living near the unlined coal ash pond of Georgia Power’s Plant Scherer were scared, angry and...
Thirty-six Mercer University students are studying, stocking and cataloguing books for Little Free Libraries in Macon.
Dr. Tom Bullington, lecturer of liberal arts at Mercer for three years now, developed this new service learning project for his Integrative Curriculum (INT)...
Tucked inside an exclusive golf club on St. Simons Island, shaded by live oak trees draped in moss, lie about 100 graves of the enslaved and their descendants.
Accessible only to those with relatives buried there, Retreat Cemetery strands in...
Mercer University nursing students got out of the classroom and into local communities this spring to educate residents on health-related issues.
MACON – Mercer University School of Engineering on May 21 presented its latest version of Touch3D Yearbooks to the graduating class at Macon’s Georgia Academy for the Blind (GAB).
The 3D yearbook project was initially conceptualized by Dr. Sinjae Hyun, professor...
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