MACON - Roger Alan Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Mercer University School of Medicine and the staff of the Psychology Assessment Center were chosen as recipients of the Partner Agency of the Year Award for 2009 by the Georgia Department of Corrections. The awards ceremony was held at the new Department of Corrections headquarters in Forsyth recently and was accepted by Lin Howland, director of Mercer Medicine, on behalf of Dr. Williams.
MACON - Mercer University's Townsend School of Music today announced the appointment of Dr. David Keith as the director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute for Graduate Studies in Church Music, effective Aug. 1. For 27 years, Dr. Keith served as professor of conducting and church music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's School of Church Music before assuming his present post as director of music and worship at Brentwood United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tenn.
Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, has joined the stable of contributors for The Washington Post's coverage of religion through its "On Faith" Web site. Dr. Gushee, who also writes for Associated Baptist Press and the Huffington Post, will join a set of Washington Post "On Faith" contributors that includes Martin Marty, Cal Thomas, Arthur Waskow, Susan Jacoby and Brent Walker. The "On Faith" Web site is moderated by Newsweek's Jon Meacham and The Washington Post's Sally Quinn.
Two teams of Mercer students and faculty, funded by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will travel to Haiti on Thursday to help the victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake and lay the groundwork for future trips to help the country and its citizens recover from their wounds, both seen and unseen.
MACON - Mercer University President William D. Underwood has announced the establishment of the Mansfield and Genelle Jennings Distinguished University Chair in Music in the Townsend School of Music's McDuffie Center for Strings. The gift establishing the endowed chair comes on the heels of two recently endowed funds: the Helen Wall Rich Endowed Professorship in Keyboard Performance and The G. Leslie Fabian Endowed Chair of Music.
McDONOUGH - Beginning this fall, Mercer University's James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology will offer three of the core courses for its master's programs at the Henry County Regional Academic Center. In addition, students can also take two courses online as well - one in the fall and one in the spring - allowing them to take a large portion of their master's core courses without having to travel to the Atlanta campus.
Mercer University will launch a new center this fall that will provide a venue for theologically based discussions on current issues and controversies. The Center for Theology and Public Life, led by Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, will hold events on the Macon and Atlanta campuses each year focused on discussing current controversies from a sound theological and ethical perspective.
MACON - For the third-consecutive year, Mercer University student-athletes have earned the top spot among its Atlantic Sun Conference cohorts as the best fund-raisers for charity.
MACON - "Avenue Q," the three-time, Tony-Award-winning Broadway musical about real life in New York City - as told by a cast of people and puppets - will come to The Grand Opera House on May 16-17 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $43-$47 and can be purchased through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or Online at www.TheGrandMacon.com.
At 3:30 p.m. today, Mercer University's Athletics Department officially launched its new-look web site, providing information on all of the Bears' NCAA Division I intercollegiate programs. The site was designed by PrestoSports of Rockville, Maryland.
