MACON - Mercer University's Townsend School of Music will present more than 65 concerts for its 2011-12 season, including a yearlong concert series featuring national artists celebrating the 10th anniversary of the McCorkle Music Building. The 2011-12 Townsend season continues the popular Fabian String Series of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings and the Masterworks at Noon series.
Mercer University senior Kelvin Graddick has a lot on his plate this year. He was selected to the prestigious Food and Community's Fellow program. Graddick's project is to revive the West Georgia Farmers Cooperative in his hometown of Hamilton. He has spent his summer laying the groundwork for it, but now he will be back at school as a full-time student and commuting back and forth as he and the other cooperative growers prepare for their first spring planting.
MACON - Mercer University's Fall Chapel services on the Macon campus will have a special emphasis this year in support of the new Universitywide Lyceum program and Mercer's participation in President Obama's national Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing has been awarded two grants totaling more than $430,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support nursing training and increase the number of nursing faculty in the country.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Department of Physical Therapy and the Shepherd Center are now offering a post-professional residency in neurologic physical therapy. The 13-month residency program, which is one of only 14 in the United States, helps physical therapists accelerate their expertise in evaluation, examination, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and management of patients with neurologic dysfunction.
ATLANTA - Tift College of Education students will have the opportunity to perform focused student teaching and become KIPP Fellows at KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools through a $1 million grant from Race to the Top funds from Georgia. Gov. Nathan Deal (CLA '64, LAW '66) announced the winners of a competitive grant program on Monday. The grant, to KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools, will help it create a teacher fellowship program and select future teachers from Mercer's Tift College of Education and Georgia State University.
MACON - The Princeton Review has again named Mercer University one of America's best colleges in the 2012 edition of the book, "The Best 376 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of the 2,500 four-year colleges in America and three colleges outside the U.S.A. were chosen for the book. This marks the ninth consecutive year that Mercer has been featured.
MACON - Wahaj Khan, a 2011 graduate of Macon's Central High School, has been named the first recipient of a new endowed scholarship created at Mercer University and funded by former Mercer trustee, alumnus and Macon businessman Benjamin W. (Benjy) Griffith III. Griffith has pledged $2.5 million to endow the Griffith Scholars program. This program will enable academically gifted graduates from Bibb County high schools with demonstrated financial need to obtain the premier education available at Mercer.
MCDONOUGH- Mercer University's Henry County Regional Academic Center will hold a Fresh Start Career Extravaganza Saturday, July 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Center is located at 160 Henry Parkway. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Mercer's Jesse Mercer Stewards program and the Office of Career Services. Registration is required and should be submitted by Wednesday.
LITHIA SPRINGS - Mercer University's Douglas County Regional Academic Center will hold a Fresh Start Career Extravaganza on Saturday, July 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The center is located at 975 Blairs Bridge Road. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Mercer's Jesse Mercer Stewards program and the Office of Career Services. Registration is required and should be submitted by Wednesday.
