Gary J. Simson, Macon Professor of Law and dean of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law since July 1, 2010, has been named senior vice provost for scholarship by Mercer Provost D. Scott Davis. Daisy Hurst Floyd, who served as law dean from 2004 to 2010 and is currently University Professor of Law and Ethical Formation at Mercer, will assume responsibility as dean until such time as a national search is conducted for a new leader at the law school.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation announced today that Mercer University is one of five institutions selected to participate in the Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellowship, supported by the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education.
Mercer University's Center for Southern Studies is making available to the public a summer tour of historically important and iconic Southern destinations.
Mercer University's Thomas C. and Ramona E. McDonald Center for America's Founding Principals will host its second annual A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, April 2-3, with a closing lecture by noted author, journalist, philosopher and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Michael Novak.
The Mercer University College of Pharmacy recently earned the full eight-year accreditation status from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). The status is the longest term achievable for a Doctor of Pharmacy program and extends until June 30, 2022.
Mercer University's chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, the international honor society for counseling students, professional counselors and counselor educators, will welcome Dr. Judith Miranti, director of counseling programs at Xavier University of Louisiana, to keynote its initiation ceremony.
Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC) engineers Peter Bryant and Steven Boswell will be among the presenters during The Association of Old Crows (AOC) 39th annual Dixie Crow Symposium at the Robins Air Force Base Museum of Aviation, March 23-27.
Mercer University's Thomas C. and Ramona E. McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles is offering high school teachers the opportunity to travel to Athens, Greece, June 16-28, for a seminar that teaches the University's innovative Great Books Program.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who joined the Mercer University Board of Trustees in December 2012, has recorded a series of short videos that highlight some of the institution's major distinctions.
In a two-hour service of worship and celebration in the Bradley and Carolyn Brown Fellowship Chapel on the campus of the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary (LBTS) on March 13, the Rev. Dr. Richard Francis Wilson became the school's sixth president since 1976.
