MACON - Mercer University will dedicate the Emily Parker Myers Admissions and Welcome Center on Friday at 11 a.m. The building is located at the corner of Winship Street and Montpelier Drive and serves as the welcome center for campus visitors, including prospective students. It is also is the University's first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified building.
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MACON - As part of Mercer's Homecoming 2012, the University's student activities board will hold a concert by singer-song writer Corey Smith at the Macon City Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the opening act by Stevens Layne, featuring Mercer alumna Molly Stevens, begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the concert, which his open to the community, are available through Ticketmaster for $12. Discounted tickets will be available with a valid Mercer ID at the Office of Campus Life.Smith was named one of country music's hottest new artists by Country Weekly and Music Row Magazine and was featured on the cover of Pollstar as a Hotstar Top Artist. He has hundreds of sold-out performances under his belt and a growing, dedicated fan-base. His newest release, "Live in Chattanooga," showcases songs from across all seven of...
Time turned back on Porter Patch on Oct. 27, as the Mercer University Great Books program held its inaugural Great Books Games. The event was loosely based on the funeral games in the Iliad and featured students and faculty dressed in costumes to participate in a number of individual and team competitions.
Seven Mercer University cultural archeology students traveled to Roanoke Island, N.C., for fall break, Oct. 6-13, to research and work archeological excavations in search of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony. Dr. Eric Klingelhofer, professor and chair of the History Department, and vice president of research for the First Colony Foundation, led the class in its work. The students got a firsthand view in the search for clues in a mystery that has spanned more than 400 years.
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University's Executive Forum, presented by BB&T, will feature Stephen Hayes, senior writer for The Weekly Standard and a FOX News contributor, on Oct. 30 for a talk titled "One Week Until Election Day." He will speak to Executive Forum members and invited guests during a lunch presentation at the Capital City Club in Atlanta at noon and a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center on the University's Macon campus.
MACON - On Saturday, the Mercer University Great Books program will hold its inaugural Great Books Games from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Porter Patch on the University's Macon campus. Loosely based on the funereal games held in the Iliad, the games will feature competitions such as a "chariot" race, "rock" throwing competition, a three-legged race and tug of war.
MACON - Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, the state's longest standing educator of nurses, has received state approval to expand its Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree to the University's Macon campus. The Georgia Board of Nursing, which approves programs that educate students to sit for nursing licensing exams, approved the expansion on Oct. 23. The program will open in fall of 2013 and offer the final two years of nursing education to current Mercer students, as well as transfers.
MACON - Mercer University will hold its fifth fall Homecoming this year with an action-packed slate of events for Mercerians of all ages Nov. 9-11. Thousands of Mercerians will make the pilgrimage back to campus to celebrate Homecoming 2012 with current students in a weekend series of events, culminating with the Second Annual All Class Party in Penfield Hall at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10. Headlining this reunion event is Party Nation, a premier party band playing music of various genres and eras.
ATLANTA - Metro Atlanta residents interested in earning a public health degree during convenient evening hours will soon be able to do so on Mercer University's graduate and professional campus in Atlanta.
The real purpose of this Lenten Study is to provide you with a mirror. Let me warn you, it is not always easy or comfortable to look in the mirror. If you think a bad hair day is scary, imagine what you may see when you look into a soul where sin has been acceptable and respectable, where sin has been allowed to sit, stagnate, and fester. It is not a pretty picture.
