MACON - For the past 18 years, Dr. Allen Lynch, associate dean of Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics and an associate professor of economics, along with colleagues Dr. Jay Coleman, professor of management at the University of North Florida, and Mike DuMond of Charles River and Associates Inc., have been crunching the numbers trying to determine which teams will make it into the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
MACON - Two Mercer University technical communication faculty members have received national recognitions from the Society for Technical Communication. Dr. George Hayhoe, professor and director of Master of Science in Technical Communication Management Program, earned the 2012 Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication, and Dr. Helen Grady, associate professor and director and chair of the Department of Technical Communication, was elected as one of the Society's fellows.
MACON - Mercer Athletics Director Jim Cole announced Tuesday that the men's basketball team is set to host a first round game of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament after accepting a bid extended by the organization's selection committee. Mercer's opening game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip at the University Center on March 13.
MACON - Veteran child advocate Ebony Harris has been named the new project director for the Macon Children's Promise Neighborhood initiative. Funded by a one-year planning grant for $500,000 from the United States Department of Education, Macon is one of only 15 communities in the nation and the only one in the Southeast, to receive the planning grant from the department's Promise Neighborhoods program. Macon's initiative, which includes $150,000 of local funding from the Peyton Anderson Foundation, is targeted at improving student achievement in the Unionville and Tindall Heights neighborhoods, focusing on four schools in those neighborhoods: Ingram-Pye and Hartley elementary schools, Ballard Hudson Middle School and Southwest High School. As project director, Harris will oversee the Children's Promise Neighborhood Partnership project and serve as liaison between the more than 35 community agencies and partners involved in the grant. As director, she will be responsible for shaping...
MACON - Share the fun and laughter of the hilarious, feel-good comedy, Girls Night the Musical, at The Grand Opera House, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. and March 24 at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Girls Night follows five friends in their 30s and 40s during a wild and outrageous girls night out at a karaoke bar. The show has earned rave reviews playing packed houses throughout the United Kingdom since 2003. It premiered in the U.S. in May 2007 and has toured across the country since then. It has been described as "Desperate Housewives meets Mamma Mia" (Applause Magazine), "Part anthem, part confessional and all party" (Telegram & Gazette), "An infectious, exhilarating sense of intoxication" (Hollywood Reporter) and "As funny and outrageous as Sex and the City" (The Advocate).
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics is launching a new monthly speaker series showcasing expertise from successful alumni. The Stetson Success series kicks off this month with a presentation by JoAnn Herold, vice president of brand marketing for Arby's Restaurant Group and vice chair of the Arby's Foundation, on March 22 at 6 p.m. Her presentation is titled "Marketing and Your Brand," and will be held in Day Hall on the University's Atlanta Campus. The event is free and open to the public but preregistration is required. For more information and to preregister, email GraduateSSBE@mercer.edu or call (678) 547-6194.
MACON - The Macon Symphony Orchestra and Mercer University today announced the appointment of Ward Stare as music director and conductor of the MSO and distinguished artist and conductor of the Mercer University Orchestra. Members of the media are invited to meet Maestro Stare at the MSO office, located at 400 Poplar St., Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.
Mercer University's 85 senior medical students, and medical students across the nation, will take part in the annual Match Day on Friday at noon as they receive their residency programs that they will enter following graduation. This Match Day will also be a first for the Savannah campus, where members of its first graduating class will learn of their placements.
MACON -- Mercer University's QuadWorks has announced the lineup of performers to appear at this year's BearStock outdoor music festival. Headlining this year's Bearstock will be Far East Movement and Yellowcard. Other bands performing include: Ocean is Theory, theKey, Jubee and the Morning After, Emily Hearn, Saint Francis, Young Benjamin, The Levee, Powers, Argonauts, The Silver Comet, The Front Bottoms and Josh Foster. All bands are family friendly.
MACON - Bret Lott has been named the 2012 Ferrol A. Sams Jr. Distinguished Writer in Residence at Mercer University. An established author and essayist, Lott is currently a professor in the Department of English at the College of Charleston. As part of his appointment, Lott will be in residence at Mercer March 19-April 30, teaching a course for undergraduates.
