The Southern Conference office has announced the league's spring football schedule, which features an eight-game conference-only schedule. The league's nine teams will complete the SoCon slate over nine weeks, wrapping up regular-season play on April 17. "I'm an old Southern Conference...
Every year, a new group of undergraduate students embarks on a "Pilgrimage to Penfield" to see Mercer University's origins in Penfield, Georgia. Normally, they travel by bus to the University's first home for a day of history and celebration,...
On a fall day in 1963, three Black men enrolled at Mercer University, breaking the color barrier and changing the landscape of the institution forever.  The enrollment of Sam Oni, an African missionary convert from Ghana, along with transfer student Cecil Dewberry and Macon resident Bennie Stephens, made...
The Mercer women's basketball team is recognizing its teams of the 1970s in the month of October as part of its celebration of 50 years of competition. Throughout the 2020-21 season, Mercer women's basketball is going to highlight a different...
About 15 Mercer University students sat on yellow hardback chairs and retro-style couches, spaced out between fixtures like a red drum set, piano, stage and control panel. Phil Walden Memorial Studio B inside Macon’s historic Capricorn Sound Studios — reopened...
Mercer University is promoting the importance of physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic by hosting a virtual 5K race called “We Run Together.” The free event will take place Oct. 17-31. All faculty, staff and students are invited to join...
Throughout the course of students’ tenure at Mercer University, they are offered the chance to partake in a beloved tradition that has been a part of the institution for many years — Pilgrimage to Penfield. Each year, the University arranges...
This semester, Mercer University political science students have been helping their peers register to vote and understand why their vote matters.  Dr. Chris Grant, professor and chairman of the Political Science Department, has been teaching his “Campaigns and Elections” course...
Mercer University has scheduled flu shot clinics on its Macon and Atlanta campuses throughout October to make it easy and convenient for students, faculty and staff to get the flu vaccine.  There will be no cost for the shots, as most...
Jada Moss was in the first semester of her freshman year when she realized there were no clubs on Mercer University’s campus for non-music majors with musical interests. Longing for a space to cultivate her craft on campus, Moss, now...

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