Dr. Lynn W. Clemons, assistant professor of organization leadership and chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Sciences in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, has been chosen to participate in the prestigious Governor's Teaching Fellows 2009 Summer Symposium.
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MACON - The Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer, a noted historian, author and scholar, will present the annual Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State on April 14-15 on Mercer's Macon campus. The lectures are sponsored by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and Mercer through a gift by retired Mercer professors Walter and Kay Shurden and are free and open to the public.
ATLANTA - Mercer University is offering a new twist to its Master of Business Administration degree: day classes. Mercer's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics has long offered its Flexible MBA in the evenings on the University's Atlanta campus; now it will offer an accelerated MBA program during the day. This accelerated program will afford qualified individuals the opportunity to earn an MBA from an internationally accredited business school in just one year.
MACON - Mercer University's Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations will hold a conference on the American founding on March 31 and April 1 on the University's Macon campus. The conference, titled "The Triumphs and Travails of the Natural Rights Republic," will include presentations by several prominent scholars on American political thought, including Dr. Michael Zuckert, noted author and professor of political science at Notre Dame University, and Dr. John W. Danford, professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. All of conference events are free and open to the public.
Some 56 senior medical students at the School of Medicine took part March 19 in the annual Match Day rite of passage - a nationwide event that serves to tell upcoming graduates what residency programs they will enter following commencement on May 9. Until Match Day, senior medical students are unsure of where they will spend the next few years as residents.
MACON - In the face of the world's fastest-growing crime - the enslavement of a million men, women and children every year - Lauran Bethell had some profoundly simple advice for the 800 attendees at Mercer University's recent anti-human trafficking conference: "Just show up."
Mercer University President William D. Underwood today announced the appointment of Dr. William F. Bina III as dean of the Mercer University School of Medicine, effective immediately. The appointment of Dr. Bina, who has served as interim dean of the School since July 1, 2008, and chair of the Department of Community Medicine since 2003, follows an 11-month-long national search.
WHO:
63 senior medical students at Mercer University School of Medicine
MACON - Nobel Laureate Dr. Vernon L. Smith will speak at Mercer University on Monday, March 16, as part of the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics "Readings in Political Economy" guest lecture series. The event begins at 6 p.m. in the Medical School Auditorium on Mercer's Macon campus. The lecture, on experimental economics, is free and open to the public.
