ATLANTA - Mercer University's Board of Trustees today approved a $185.4 million operating budget for next year, a $4 million, or 2.3 percent, increase over the current budget. Tuition for Mercer's undergraduate programs will increase by 3.48 percent. Last year's increase for Macon undergraduate programs was 2.9 percent, compared with increases of 6.5 percent in 2008, 6.8 percent in 2007 and 7 percent in 2006. Tuition increases for graduate and professional programs range from 1 percent to 4.4 percent.
MACON - Mercer University sophomore Joshua Coleman has been awarded a 2010-2011 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship, a yearlong, $26,000 award, which he will use to study in Angers, France, at the L'universitie catholique de l'ouest. Coleman, of Guyton, is an English and French double major.For more information on the scholarship program, go>.Coleman will be in France October 2010 through June 2011 and will study French language, culture and literature. In addition to his studies, Coleman will also volunteer with the Rotary Club and the local community, as well as speak to local Rotary Clubs and organizations about his ambassadorial experience.
MACON - QuadWorks, the campus activities board of Mercer University, will host its third annual Bearstock Music and Arts Festival on Saturday. The concert is free, open to the public, and will feature 17 bands on two stages. The music begins at noon on Porter Patch at Mercer's historic Macon campus and will feature headliners Jeremih, Cartel, The Maine and We the Kings, along with 13 local bands. Jeremih is scheduled to perform at 7:05 p.m. and Cartel will take the stage at 8:05 p.m.
MACON - A delegation of Mercer students and faculty has been invited to this year's national conference sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative University - a program of the William J. Clinton Foundation - to highlight the University's efforts to help amputees in Vietnam and to announce new commitments to service. Four professors and six students have been selected to attend the conference, which will take place April 16-18 at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla.
MACON - Undergraduates at Mercer University's Macon campus will showcase what they've learned this year at a series of events over the coming week. Engineering students will present their projects and compete in colorful vehicle competitions at the Third Annual Engineering Expo at the University Center Arena on April 16. Meanwhile, students will also talk about their research projects at the Fourth Annual Mercer Undergraduate Research Symposium in Heritage Hall in the UC. Then, on Monday, the University will hold the inaugural Mercer Undergraduate Research Conference, featuring presentations from across the academic disciplines.
MACON - The Georgia Cancer Coalition has awarded one of its six research grants for 2010 to a member of the Mercer University School of Medicine faculty. The organization will provide $50,000 to Dr. Robert J. McKallip, an assistant professor of immunology in the Division of Basic Medical Sciences at the School of Medicine in Macon, to study therapies for treating malignant melanoma.
MACON - Mercer University and Mount de Sales Academy, an independent Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory school located in the College Hill Corridor, have announced a dual-enrollment program that will allow academy seniors to take college courses for credit at the University beginning next fall.The program, which initially will be available to seven Mount de Sales students, is designed to provide an early college experience for talented and motivated high school students. They will take classes alongside current Mercer students and upon successful completion will be able to apply their credits toward degree completion at Mercer or another university. "I am very pleased that we have been able to develop this dual enrollment program with Mount de Sales," said President William D. Underwood. "The proximity of the academy to our campus, the rigor of its academic program, and the history of cooperation between the two institutions make this a logical partnership. We believe...
MACON - Mercer University President William D. Underwood today announced the appointment of Lake Lambert, Ph.D., currently professor and administrator at Wartburg College in Iowa, as dean of Mercer's College of Liberal Arts, effective July 1. Dr. Lambert will succeed Dr. Richard Fallis, who announced that he will retire as dean this summer following nearly 10 years at the helm of Mercer's oldest academic unit.
MACON - Corinne Gilmer, a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Mercer University, will present her research on Capitol Hill as part of a national event showcasing undergraduate research. Gilmer, a junior, will attend the Council for Undergraduate Research's Posters on the Hill in Washington, D.C., April 13. Gilmer is one of only two students from Georgia, and one of only 85 in the nation, selected to attend the event.
MACON - A Mercer On Mission project that provides low-cost prosthetics to amputees in developing countries has received two substantial grants this spring to help with those efforts. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance awarded Dr. Ha Van Vo, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, with a Sustainable Vision Grant of $37,275 to help him perfect his design and set up a prosthetic lab and clinic in Vietnam. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship awarded the University a $50,000 grant to replicate the Vietnam program in Haiti, where the 2010 earthquake left thousands of Haitians without limbs.
