From computer programs that assist in medical decisions to innovative crop-cultivating techniques to software that analyzes military intelligence, computer science is embedded in a growing number of careers today. Demand is high, and opportunities are plentiful for people with...
A new program at Mercer aims to open up faculty-led study abroad experiences to new graduates, alumni and community members. This past summer, 10 community members went to Greece and five Class of 2022 graduates went to Spain as...
Communication students are working with a national group to raise awareness about steps that can help prevent peanut allergies in children. Bears in Dr. Arla Bernstein’s integrative communication capstone course are creating campaigns that will be presented to a...
Mercer University College of Pharmacy’s Ajay Banga, Ph.D., has received funding from the National Institutes of Health CounterAct Program to develop topical treatments to help combat suffering and death from arsenicals-based chemical warfare agents.
Dr. Banga and his research team...
Did you know that the oldest discovered fossils show life on Earth began more than 3.5 million years ago?
Create your own fossils by making a simple dough of 1 cup salt, 2 cups flour and 3/4 cup water.Form the...
Mercer University’s BB&T Center for Undergraduate Research in Public Policy and Capitalism recently announced the recipients of its 2017-2018 academic grants supporting student research in economics, finance or other related areas.
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...
A Mercer student will get to rub elbows with software developers this summer at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
Brady Simon, a computer engineering major who just finished his junior year, competed in an app challenge and won a scholarship...
MACON – Gretchen Bentz, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology in Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM), recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) grant in the amount of $424,500.
The grant will provide training opportunities...
Thirty Mercer students are getting front-row seats to presidential politics over the next couple weeks.
Fifteen of them are flying to Iowa today, where they will spend five days observing and volunteering with political campaigns before the Democratic caucuses Feb....
