Knight Foundation Commits $2.3 Million to Promote a Sense of Place, Prosperity
ATLANTA - Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is now providing quarterly pharmacy-based immunization training for area pharmacists. The training could be particularly significant for independent pharmacists in Georgia who lack the required certification necessary to administer vaccinations to adult and adolescent patients.
Get to know Chuck Peek who has served as a youth minister at First Baptist Church, West Point for seven years. My primary responsibilities are teaching middle and high school students and accompanying them in their spiritual development.
The Mercer On Mission trip to Israel was an experience of a lifetime. Dr. Culpepper’s expertise and knowledge of the Middle East made each ruin come to life.
MACON - Noted James Madison scholar Dr. Colleen Sheehan of Villanova University will deliver the undergraduate Constitution Day Lecture at Mercer University on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Fickling Hall of the McCorkle Music Building. Mercer's Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations is hosting the lecture, titled "James Madison on Citizenship and Statesmanship," which is sponsored by the Jack Miller Center.
MACON - On Thursday, violinist Robert McDuffie, the Mansfield and Genelle Jennings Distinguished University Professor Chair at Mercer University, will be featured on the popular American Public Media radio show, "Performance Today." In addition to McDuffie's recent performance for the Aspen Music Festival, the show will also feature an interview with McDuffie conducted by host Fred Child, about the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer's Townsend School of Music. The show will be broadcast at 9 a.m. and it will also be available online at performancetoday.publicradio.org. For more details on the radio schedule for Georgia Public Radio, visit gpb.org/radio/schedule.
MACON - The National Science Foundation has awarded Mercer University $174,574 to help it advance undergraduate research in chemistry. The grant will pay for equipment and provide funds for six students to work as researchers using a "studio lab" approach over the next two summers. The grant will also pay for Mercer professors and students to present their research at regional and national conferences and for the professors to expand the learning approach to other top-flight undergraduate chemistry programs.
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University's James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology will hold the fifth annual D. Perry and Betty Ginn Lecture Series Sept. 18-20 on the University's Atlanta and Macon campuses. This year's lecturer is Adrian Wyard, executive director and founder of the Counterbalance Foundation, websites that provide thousands of links and video focused on the interface between science and religion. He will build his three lectures around the theme "Bridging the Gaps: Can Science and Theology Share a Common View of Nature, Life and Personhood?"
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Dr. Gordon Johnston,
professor of English and director of the creative writing major, had his poems "Durable Goods," "Sweep" and "Ash Monday" accepted for publication in the fall issue of Southern Poetry Review.
