The Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce named Mercer University President William D. Underwood as its Citizen of the Year during the organization's 153rd annual meeting on Dec. 5.
Mercer University Associate Professor of Southern Studies Douglas Thompson was recently named editor of the Journal of Southern Religion, the first scholarly journal devoted to the study of religion in the American South.
The Pi Gamma Chapter of The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) at Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing recently received the society's Chapter Key Award for the 2011-2013 biennium.
Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies will sponsor Human Sex Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Week, Jan. 10-17, on the Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus in Atlanta.
As part of the ongoing commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its integration, and leading up to the national observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 20, Mercer University will welcome Dr. Reggie Williams, assistant professor of Christian ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, for three events, Jan. 13-14.
Veteran performing arts administrator Roseann Swiergosz (SWEER-gus) has been named executive director of The Grand Opera House, a performing arts center of Mercer University, effective Feb. 3.
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Mercer University's Southern Studies Program will award the 2014 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature to fiction writer Elizabeth Spencer. The prize honors significant career contributions to Southern writing in drama, fiction or poetry.
The annual observance of Mercer University's Founders' Day next month will tie into the University's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its integration. A campuswide convocation, sponsored by the Student Government Association, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 10 a.m., in Willingham Auditorium, will feature an address by noted alumnus Bob Hurt.
