ATLANTA – Mercer University’s Board of Trustees, meeting today on the Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus in Atlanta, adopted a record $284.1 million operating budget for 2021-22, exclusive of nearly $40 million in federal research grants, and...
New center will serve to empower lives of impoverished persons globally through research, innovation
MACON – Directors of the Macon-based Phil J. and Alice S. Sheridan Foundation have committed $10 million to endow The Sheridan Center at Mercer University to...
MACON – Mercer University’s McEachern Art Center (the MAC) opens the gallery for To Beginnings: Mercer University's Fine Arts and Design Graduation Exhibition as the final show that Class of 2021 seniors will present on campus from April 16-May 7.
To Beginnings toasts the graduating...
MACON – Mercer University Opera will present The Last Sorcerer, an 1867 short chamber operetta composed by opera star and composer Pauline Viardot, which has been recently rediscovered and made available for performance. This light fairy tale story will take place...
ATLANTA – Dr. C. Gregory DeLoach, who has served as interim dean of Mercer University’s James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology since Aug. 1, 2018, has had the interim removed from his title, Provost Dr. D. Scott Davis...
MACON – Mercer Music at Capricorn and Riggs Ward Design received the Gold award for Experiential and Immersive Design in the 2021 MUSE Creative Awards and MUSE Design Awards, which received nearly 4,000 entries showcasing creative and design excellence from...
MACON – Mercer University junior Ivy Clarke was recently selected as a finalist for the Truman Scholarship, the premier graduate fellowship in the United States for those pursuing careers as public service leaders.
Clarke, an English literature and creative writing...
MACON – Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2021 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to novelist, essayist and poet Barbara Kingsolver.
The prize will be presented April 17 at 1 p.m. in...
MACON – Mercer University junior Cam Wade was recently selected for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute at the New York Public Library.
The prestigious, highly competitive program was created by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Andrew...
MACON – Dr. Joanna Thomas, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Mercer’s School of Engineering, was named the recipient of this year’s Innovations in Teaching Award, co-sponsored by the Vulcan Materials Company and the University.
The annual prize, presented at...
