Dr. Jennifer Look, assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to study the environment in the neighborhoods around Mercer’s Macon campus.
Mercer has been named one of 104 national finalists in 72 cities for a 2013 ArtPlace grant. The $1 million request would help underwrite the renovation of the former Tattnall Square Presbyterian Church into the Tattnall Square Center for the Arts.
Mercer University’s Southern Studies Program has named writer Lee Smith as the recipient of the 2013 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature. The Sidney Lanier Prize honors significant career contributions to Southern writing in drama, fiction or poetry.
One of Mercer University's most accomplished graduates, the man known by many as "Sambo," died Jan. 29 at the age of 90. Dr. Ferrol A. Sams Jr. penned eight books, including a trilogy of works featuring Porter Osborne Jr., a character largely based on Dr. Sams' own Georgia boyhood in Fayette County. All of his works are rooted in the oral traditions of Southern humor and folklore.
All 18 members of the first graduating class of Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner Program passed the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Examination on their first attempt and are now practicing family nurse practitioners.
The University has appointed longtime business faculty member and academic administrator at Emory and Rutgers universities, Dr. Susan Perles Gilbert, as dean of the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics, effective April 1.
The School of Engineering will celebrate National Engineers Week Feb. 17-23. The School will mark the occasion with several events throughout the week on the Macon campus, concluding with the annual MathCounts competition for area middle school teams on Feb. 23.
Mercer's Student Government Association has launched the Paint the Town Orange initiative, an effort to increase engagement between Mercer and the community through job placement and shopping incentives. Today through Thursday, SGA and Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity, are co-sponsoring a student conference to help engage the student body in the initiative.
The 25th annual gathering of the Southern Intellectual History Circle will be held at Mercer University Thursday through Saturday. The event is an annual gathering of scholars of the American South who discuss the intellectual currents of history, literature and culture of the region.
The Mercer University’s Ninth Annual Building the Beloved Community Symposium, to be held Feb. 28 and March 1 is based on the theme, “Hurricane Katrina and Today’s Beloved Community.” The Rev. Gail E. Bowman, chaplain and director of the Willis D. Weatherford Jr. Christian Center at Berea College, will deliver the keynote addresses. The event will also include a screening of “The Man Who Ate New Orleans,” and a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker, Michael J. Dunaway, on March 1.
