MACON - Mercer University's Townsend School of Music today announced the appointment of Dr. Jack Mitchener as associate professor of organ and church music and director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute of Church Music. Dr. Mitchener currently serves as associate professor of organ at Oberlin College and Conservatory.
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ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Mercer University an $84,220 grant from the Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad program for an international education program in Malawi. The project's principal investigator is Dr. Zipangani M. Vokhiwa, a native Malawian and an assistant professor of science in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies. The grant, one of only 12 short-term research grants given this year, will fund a four-week field research trip to Malawi.
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Mercer senior Drayton Perkins spent his summer crossing America on a bike - it was his second trip cross country helping PUSH America's Journey of Hope. Perkins worked this summer as crew chief for trans-America cycling route. Perkins, a professional accounting major in the MAPS program at Mercer, is from Barnesville.
Mercer University students in Dr. Creighton Rosental's service-learning class – "Creating a Public Art Program for Macon-Bibb" – will host a benefit concert Dec. 5 in support of their new Veterans Voices project.
Mercer’s Association of Women Law Students (AWLS) hosted its 19th annual Charity Auction and Ball in March and raised more than $10,900 to benefit the Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Over the past six years, AWLS has raised more than $82,000 to support local charities.
Mercer University Distinguished Professor of Christian Ethics Dr. David Gushee was recently voted president-elect of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE) at the organization’s annual meeting in Toronto.
The Mercer Binary Bears computer programming team captured second place at 20th Annual Southeastern Small College Programming Contest, sponsored by the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, held this past Saturday on the campus of Furman University.
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation recently awarded the Tattnall Square Center for the Arts an award for Excellence in Rehabilitation. Scot Mann, director of Mercer Theatre, attended the April 22 ceremony in Marietta on behalf of Mercer University.
