Mercer students and faculty will travel to Kenya next week for a Mercer On Mission trip where they will work on several projects to increase access to clean drinking water for several nursery schools, and the villages that surround them.
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Three Mercer University student teams brought home awards from a recent American Society of Engineering Education Southeastern Section Student Poster Competition held at Virginia Tech. In all, five teams of Mercer environmental engineering students participated in the event, which was attended by students and faculty from engineering programs in the Southeast.
ATLANTA - Beginning in August, Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies will welcome candidates into two post-master's degree programs, including the College's first Ph.D. program, on the University's Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus. Pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the College will offer the Educational Specialist in School Counseling degree, an advanced degree for school counselors, and the Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision, which is only the second such program in the state of Georgia and is intended to produce counseling professors, researchers and leaders.
MACON - Mercer University President William D. Underwood today announced the appointment of legal scholar Gary J. Simson, the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker and Hostetler Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, as dean of the Walter F. George School of Law. The appointment is effective July 1.
ATLANTA - Lindsay Watters, a member of the first class of Mercer physician assistants, has earned a coveted spot in the postgraduate surgical residency program for physician assistants at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. The hospital has been ranked No. 1 in the nation for 19 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report. After completion of her Master of Medical Science degree at Mercer this year, Watters was accepted into one of five post-graduate positions in the program, which selects from a national pool of applicants.
Former Mercer University trustees Nancy Grace and Cathy Callaway Adams were honored as YWCA "Women of Achievement" during a May 19 luncheon in Atlanta.Grace, who earned her undergraduate and law degrees from Mercer, was honored as the organization's 2010 "Woman of Achievement," and Adams, a graduate of Tift College, was named as one of 10 members of the 2010 Academy of Women Achievers. Both women recently completed five-year terms on the Mercer Board of Trustees.For more than 25 years, the YWCA has honored Atlanta's premier female role models through the Academy of Women Achievers. Each year, 10 women are nominated by their peers into the Academy and are recognized at the annual Salute to Women of Achievement luncheon in May. These women represent what every young girl hopes she can and will become with opportunity and support. The Academy of Women Achievers is the first major program to recognize the professional and civic accomplishments of Atlanta's women. Members of the Academy...
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Business Chronicle presented Dr. Ha Van Vo, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Mercer University, with its 2010 Health-Care Heroes Award for Innovation during the paper's 13th annual awards program in Atlanta Thursday evening.
WESTERVILLE, Ohio - The National Middle School Association, the nation's largest organization focused solely on middle grades education, welcomes Mercer University's Dr. Karen Weller Swanson as the next editor of Research in Middle Level Education Online. Dr. Swanson will serve as associate editor during the first year, working closely during the transition with current editor, Dr. Micki Caskey of Portland State University (Ore.), before assuming the role of editor-in-chief. The RMLE Online editorship is a five-year term.
ATLANTA - Mercer President William D. Underwood and College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Dean H.W. "Ted" Matthews have announced the establishment of the T.P. Haines Endowed Chair in Transdermal Delivery Systems; Dr. Ajay K. Banga, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is the inaugural holder of the endowed position.
MACON -- Shabnam Nourparvar, who just completed her first year at the Mercer University School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2010 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.The fellowship provides $5,000 to support her research from June through December working with sponsors Dr. John Boltri and Dr. Monique Davis-Smith of the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine on the FAITH Works project: Families Actively Improving Their Health Works.
