Two weeks ago, Atlanta fell apart after 2 inches of snow. Thousands of cars trapped on interstates, 900+ wrecks within hours of each other forced us out of our comfort zone to help others in need.
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Mercer University's student programming board QuadWorks has announced the headliners for the seventh annual Bearstock outdoor music festival, April 12, in Tattnall Square Park. These headlining acts – led by electronic dance music trio Krewella along with rapper Logic and hybrid hip-hop/rock trio Radical Something – will visit Macon as part of EMUZE and Karmaloop's Spring 2014 Verge Campus Tour.
Dr. Kenyon Knapp, assistant dean for graduate studies and associate professor of counseling in Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies, has been named a member of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Board of Directors. His five-year term will run July 1, 2014-June 30, 2019.
The Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University has selected first-year Ph.D. student Amanda Reichert as its second Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar.
Four faculty members in Mercer University’s College of Health Professions were recently recognized for their outstanding work in their fields.
No one has risen to fame and garnered more respect, attention, hatred, followership and love than Pope Francis (with the possible exception of Lady Gaga). He’s been on the cover of Time Magazine and Rolling Stone. He’s re-authoring the public’s opinion of Christianity – and doing it with flare. He’s usurping traditional, Christian stereotypes and challenging outdated practices.
Mercer University's Chris Buechner, a student in the Tift College of Education's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program, was recently announced as the recipient of this year's Geiger Ellis Student Teaching Award from the Georgia Council of Teachers of English (GCTE).
Mercer University's 10th annual Building the Beloved Community Symposium will be centered on the theme "Looking Back and Moving Forward: 50 Years of Integration at Mercer," which has been – and will continue to be – the focus of a number of events on campus during the current academic year.
Mercer University's Roberts Department of Christianity has named Dr. Carol A. Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament and director of the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, the 2014 Harry Vaughan Smith Visiting Distinguished Professor of Christianity.
Over the last five years, almost 1,000 Vietnamese have received new prosthetic legs through a Mercer On Mission program led by biomedical engineering professor Dr. Ha Van Vo. That number is about to grow exponentially, thanks to new partnerships and funding from a Macon-based foundation.
