MACON - Mercer University will host a national conference on human trafficking, titled "STOP Sex Trafficking: A Call to End 21st Century Slavery," on March 19-20 in Willingham Auditorium on Mercer's Macon campus. The conference is organized by Mercer students in STOP, the Sex Trafficking Opposition Project, to counter the growing worldwide crisis. According to the U.S. State Department, more than a million women and children are trafficked into sex slavery each year. Nearly 20,000 are trafficked annually into the United States and many of these victims are trafficked into the Southeast.
Mercer University is one of the nation’s best higher education institutions for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, according to the Princeton Review’s latest publication, which was released today.
Mercer University Press author Amy Blackmarr was presented with the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the category of Essay for her book Above the Fall Line: The Trail from White Pine Cabin on June 12th at the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in Atlanta.
The presentation was made at the 40th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards Dinner hosted by Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture; the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry and the H. Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Writing.
White Pine Cabin, a hut barely big enough to turn around in, becomes the setting for Blackmarr's searing self-examination as she tells the stories that have led her so far inward and works out a trail back toward a happier connection with herself, the land, her God and the people in her world.
Amy Blackmarr is a South Georgia native who lived in the...
MACON - Mercer University's Southern Studies Program has named author Ernest J. Gaines as the inaugural winner of its Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature. The Sidney Lanier Prize honors significant career contributions to Southern writing in drama, fiction or poetry. Gaines will give a public reading in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center on April 14 at 3 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public.
The Mercer Innovation Center is seeking students with innovative business ideas to participate in its virtual Elevator Pitch Competition to be held Feb. 26 at 6...
College of Health Professions
Dr. Cheryl Gaddis, assistant professor of practice, received a $10,000 contract from HODAC Alcohol Prevention Project Evaluation (2014-2015).
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Erin David Lang, a third-year student in Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law, will appear on the TV game show Jeopardy Feb. 18. Lang received her undergraduate degree from Mercer in 1998. She passed the Jeopardy test and was called in October to be on the show. She and her husband, David Lang, reside in Macon. Her parents are John and Patricia David of Byron.
Mercer University is featured among the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review’s new 2018 edition of its college guide, “The Best 382 Colleges,” which was released today.
ATLANTA - Central Georgia will soon have local news coverage and programming on Georgia's public radio network, announced Nancy Hall, interim executive director of Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). Through a partnership with Mercer University, GPB will have a radio studio located at the university's campus in Macon that will be connected to the network's 100,000-watt transmitter in Cochran, Ga.
NEW SPIRIT MARKS Sybil Blalock, associate athletic director and senior woman administator, and Bobby Pope, director of athletics, with the new Mercer Athletic Spirit MarksMACON, Ga. - The Mercer University Athletics Department unveiled four new spirit marks on Wednesday, symbols of a dynamic text and color scheme that bring a new look and new opportunities to the Bears' athletics program.
