ATLANTA - Dr. H. Robert Superko will deliver the 2010 G. Van Greene Distinguished Lecture of Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at 11 a.m. on Thursday in Day Hall on the University's Atlanta campus. He is vice president and chief of medical affairs for Celera Corp., a biotech company focused on genetically tailored treatments, as well as an adjunct clinical professor at the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Superko will speak on "Clinical Utility of Cardiovascular Genetic Tests Today: How They Will Change the Practice of Medicine." The lecture is free and open to the public.
MACON - "Music for Haiti," a benefit concert for Haiti relief, will take place Sunday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Chapel on Mercer University's Macon campus. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 with a student ID. Tickets can be purchased and additional donations can be made at the door. Proceeds from the concert will go to the organization Haitian Hope to rebuild the St. Marc's Church School in Trouin, Haiti, which collapsed in the recent earthquake. The event will include performances by Robert McDuffie, distinguished university professor and international violinist; David Halen, concertmaster, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Elizabeth Pridgen, G. Leslie Fabian Chair of Music at Mercer; Monty Cole, associate professor of music, and the Mercer Jazz ensemble. In addition to the music, there will be spoken word poetry.
A recent telephone poll of 300 likely general election voters in Bibb County commissioned by Mercer University and NewTown Macon shows broad support for consolidating the Macon and Bibb County governments.
MACON - Mercer University earned an "A" grade for its efforts on transportation in the 2010 Sustainability Report Card, earning placement in the Transportation Leaders category. The University was also one of just 12 schools featured in the Transportation Leaders section of the Green Report Card's Web site. The list of Transportation Leaders is composed of 105 schools that earned "A" grades in this category.
MACON - Mercer University Trustee Thomas Malone, a 1966 graduate of Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law, is featured on the cover of the 2010 Georgia Super Lawyers magazine under the heading, "The New King of Torts." He was joined on the elite list by fellow Mercer trustees and law graduates Dwight J. Davis and Richard A. "Doc" Schneider, both senior partners with Atlanta's King & Spalding law firm, and M. Diane Owens, partner with Atlanta's Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers. Current Mercer trustee and former board chair David E. Hudson, who earned his undergraduate degree from Mercer and his law degree from Harvard, also was included in the 2010 edition of the publication. He is a partner with the Augusta law firm of Hull Barrett, PC. An understudy of the late and legendary personal injury lawyer Melvin Belli, dubbed "The King of Torts" by LIFE magazine in a 1954 profile, Malone first worked with Belli decades ago on a medical malpractice case, which they won. Eventually, Belli began...
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing has launched an initiative to educate members of Atlanta-area churches to help others as they face death. The project offers free support from Mercer faculty volunteers with the College of Nursing, as well as School of Medicine and College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, who provide training for church lay health advisers, or Mercer Care Partners, in palliative care.
MACON - Tattnall Square Park will play host to two premiere events of athletic competition on Saturday, May 1 2010.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing will host a research conference on end-of-life care Friday, March 26, in the Trustees Dining Room on the University's Atlanta campus. The conference, titled "Perspectives and Reflections from the Gloaming of Life: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Challenges," is open to all members of the nursing, theology, pharmacy and medical professions. In addition, nurses who attend may receive 4.5 contact hours on palliative care from the Georgia Nurses Association.
MACON - Valerie Caproni, general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at Mercer Law School's 2010 Law Day luncheon on March 12.
ATLANTA - Holocaust survivor and author Fred Gross will speak at Mercer University's Atlanta campus on Tuesday, March 2, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Swilley Library. Gross is the author of One Step Ahead of Hitler: a Jewish Child's Journey Through France, a memoir from Mercer University Press that traces his rediscovery of the story of his family's flight from the Nazis when he was a small boy. He will also be available to sign copies of the book. The event is free and open to the public.
