Fabian Kopp enrolled at Mercer with an interest in international affairs, but he wasn’t sure how he would gain real-world experience in his chosen field. Getting involved in a University club opened the doors he needed to go through...
A Mercer alumnus is using technology to encourage community exploration in Macon. Joey Allen, a December 2017 graduate and Macon native, is one of five people across the country recently chosen for the Niantic/Knight Fellows Program.
The six-month fellowship is...
MACON – Mercer University will host its fourth annual Visionary Student Panel on Oct. 24-25 from 6-8 p.m. each night. The panel will take place in the Presidents Dining Room inside the University Center and is free and open to...
SAVANNAH – Mercer University second-year medical student Malcolm Velasco received a Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine to conduct research in The Gambia in West Africa this past summer. He was one of 21 fellows selected this year...
MACON – Kristen Ashley Horner, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology in Mercer University School of Medicine, recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grant in the amount of $462,660 to further investigate the neural pathways...
ATLANTA – For years, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and at pharmaceutical companies have tried unsuccessfully to create a successful gonorrhea vaccine. Clinical trials have been disappointing; potential...
SAVANNAH – Dr. Robert Visalli, associate professor of microbiology and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Mercer University School of Medicine, was recently selected to lead the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program.
ASM offers the...
MACON – Rising Mercer University senior Matthew Halbert and rising junior Caroline Kittrell each received $5,000 Undergraduate Summer Student Research Awards in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) from local nonprofit organization Joshua’s Wish and are spending the summer studying...
MACON – Two Mercer University School of Medicine faculty members recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health that will officially designate MUSM’s Center for Rural Health and Health Disparities as an NIH Center of Excellence.
With this designation,...
MACON – Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) faculty member Dr. K. Bryant Smalley was recently named Outstanding Researcher of the Year by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA).
Dr. Smalley was honored May 10 in New Orleans at the organization’s...
