MACON - The Sixth Annual Building the Beloved Community Symposium, sponsored by Mercer University's Mercer Commons, will be held Feb. 2 and 3 in Macon. This year's event is built on the theme, "The Content of Their Character." The Rev. Dr. Samuel Wells, dean of the chapel at Duke University and research professor of Christian ethics at Duke Divinity School, will deliver two addresses at the two-day event.
MACON - The Knights of the Round Table descend upon The Grand Opera House in Lerner and Loewe's timeless masterpiece "Camelot," Friday and Saturday, Jan. 22-23, 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.This sumptuous tale is sure to delight audiences with its soaring melodies, magnificent costumes and an enduring love story set among the historic grandeur of medieval England. From the celebrated team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe who created the beloved musical "My Fair Lady," comes this dazzling musical adaptation of T.H. White's The Once and Future King, one of literature's most cherished fables.The idyllic kingdom of Camelot is thrown into chaos when a love triangle emerges between the beautiful Queen Guenevere, gentle King Arthur and dashing knight Lancelot. Magicians, sorcerers and noblemen run rampant, only to collide in a flurry of fanfare as Lerner and Loewe spin an...
The Jan. 7 Atlanta Campus New Student Orientation for the Tift College of Education Graduate Teacher Education program was postponed due to the weather. New students can choose to attend either of the following orientation sessions:
MACON -The Bike Store is moving its Macon location to Mercer Village, the new retail district that anchors the campus end of the College Hill Corridor. The bike retail and repair business has signed a lease for 1305 Linden Ave., a 3,200-square-foot space next door to the Georgia Public Broadcasting studio. Renovation of the space is under way, and the owners expect to complete the move by March 1.
Because of inclement weather, hours for the on-site registration/orientation for the Henry County Regional Academic Center have been extended to Friday, Jan. 8, and Monday, Jan. 11, from 1 p.m. until the start of the classes that evening.The original hours set for the registration were from 3-7 p.m. on Jan. 7.For more information, contact Stephen Jenkins or Crystal Frazier at (678) 547-6100 or kaseric_ss@mercer.edu.
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Mercer University President William D. Underwood today announced the appointment of Bobby Pope, current director of athletics, as special assistant to the president and the first full-time executive director of the Mercer Athletic Foundation, and named State Representative and Mercer alumnus Jim Cole as director of athletics. The appointments are effective July 1.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology will partner with Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Inc. to bring viewers in the Atlanta area an inside look at what professors teach in their classes in a new 30-minute program, airing on AIB TV. "The 30-Minute Seminary" will feature professors delivering half-hour summaries of such courses as the Old Testament, the New Testament, theology, church history, ethics and worship - 14 different subjects in all.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Alaimo - subject of the 2008 Mercer University Press biography, The Sicilian Judge: Anthony Alaimo, An American Hero, died Dec. 30 in Brunswick. He was 89.
ATLANTA - Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a five-year, $1 million grant to Mercer University's James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology to establish the McAfee Center for Teaching Churches, building on a previous grant that funded a pilot Transition-into-Ministry project.
MACON - Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies will add two graduate degrees and a new certificate program to its curricular offerings in 2010, including its first Ph.D. program.
