A stigmatized and impoverished population in Greece received basic health care and nutrition guidance from a Mercer On Mission team this summer. Sixteen Mercer University students participated in the ongoing service-learning project to assist the Roma people in partnership with...
Amber Byrd was in class one day when she sketched out an idea for a new product. Now, she’s brought her vision to life, and her product is in the final testing phases.  Byrd, who graduated with a marketing degree...
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)...
In just 12 weeks, Mercer students can have 12 credit hours, an undergraduate certificate and an immersive study abroad experience under their belt.  Right now, the first group is working its way through the new Globalization and Engagement (GLEN) certificate...
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.
Early one November morning, Dr. David Keith, dean of Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music, was preparing to speak at a club meeting in Macon. At about 6 a.m., he checked the news.  “And something caught my eye,” he recalled.  It was a news story about a man named Paul Harvey, a British composer with dementia. Harvey...
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...
Before the McAfee School of Theology opened in fall 1996, the founding faculty members faced their first challenge: They needed to create the school. With only seven months before the arrival of the inaugural class, they sat around a table...
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...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the nation’s first reported cases of the disease that would later become known as AIDS. Over the past four decades, Mercer University professors have contributed to the research of the disease while providing...

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