MACON - Iraqi Poet Haider Al-Kabi will read his poetry from the award-winning anthology, Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq, at Mercer University on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Medical School Auditorium. Al-Kabi is a distinguished Iraqi poet, editor and translator and one of the contributors to the volume Flowers of Flame, which won a 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award for Poetry.
ATLANTA - Mercer University alumnus and trustee Spencer B. King III, M.D., was recently presented with the 2009 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Career Achievement Award. The award recognizes extraordinary talent and dedication in the areas of academic achievement, clinical expertise, education and invention in the field of interventional cardiovascular medicine. Dr. King, who serves as president of the Heart and Vascular Institute at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, began his career at Emory University, where he was instrumental in starting that institution's catheterization labs and where he and colleague Andreas Gruentzig, M.D., began the first live demonstration courses of coronary angioplasty in the United States.
MACON - Mercer University will host an art show, reception and variety show on Oct. 5 to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure's fight against breast cancer. The event will be held in McCorkle Music Building, located off Adams Street. The art show and reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the variety show will follow at 7:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted at the door. The art show will consist of landscape paintings and photography by Middle Georgia artists and is curated by Mercer's Martha Malone, professor of music; Gary Blackburn, professor of art; and Craig Coleman, associate professor of art. After the show and reception, the exhibit will be open to the public at the Jack Tarver Library Gallery from Oct. 6 to Oct. 31.The variety show will be held in the Fickling Recital Hall in McCorkle. The show consists of several five- to 10-minute acts. The performances include a classical performance by Mercer's Richard Kosowski, assistant professor of music, and Carol Goff, associate...
MACON -Mercer University's Center for Undergraduate Research in Public Policy and Capitalism recently received a $16,000 grant from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation to advance the study of political economy at Mercer through a lecture series and funding student travel to national conferences. This is the second year of support from the Koch Foundation.
MACON - Patrick Madison has been named executive director for the College Hill Alliance, effective Oct. 1. Madison is co-founder of Madison-Poss & Associates, a Macon-based regional planning and development consulting firm whose projects include College Hill Commons, home to Joshua Cup Coffee, and the Palisades, the Intown Macon condominium complex.
Provost Wallace L. Daniel has announced the appointment of a search committee to lead the process of recommending a dean for the College of Liberal Arts to succeed Dr. Richard Fallis. Dr. Fallis, who has led the College of Liberal Arts since 2001, announced in September his intention to retire as dean at the end of the current academic year and return to a full-time post in the English Department following a sabbatical.
The Douglas County Center classes will not meet Thursday evening or this weekend. All meetings, including the GACE Preparation Session for Tift College students scheduled for Friday evening,
MACON - The Grand Opera House, a Performing Arts Center of Mercer University, marked its 125th birthday by unveiling its new state-of-the-art marquee today. The Grand has illuminated Macon and Central Georgia with the best in theater, music and special events and the marquee will brighten the theater's exciting future. "Mercer University is very pleased to have been involved with this project from the beginning," said President William D. Underwood. "The University's commitment to this project has been instrumental in ensuring its successful completion. We are pleased to make this contribution to the citizens of Bibb County and all of Central Georgia.""On the 125th anniversary of The Grand Opera House, we are celebrating this historic building, quite literally, in lights," said Karen Lambert, executive director of The Grand Opera House. "The marquee is a distinctive and beautiful feature for the Grand, for Mulberry Street and for all of downtown Macon for many years to come and we are...
MACON - Two Mercerians were among the seven individuals announced Thursday as the new inductions into the the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. The Honors Court met on Thursday and selected Al Ciraldo, Edward Everett, Ernie Johnson, Sam Mitchell, Larry Rakestraw, Ronald Simmons and Suzanne Yoculan as the Hall of Fame Class of 2010. These seven individuals were chosen from an eligible pool of 252 nominees as those men and women who best exemplify the tradition of sports excellence in the State of Georgia.
MACON - Mercer's Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations will hold its second annual lecture series on the Macon campus, including three lectures in the fall and two lectures and a conference in the spring, all built around the theme, "Republics Ancient and Modern." The series will feature some of the nation's most renowned scholars in the history of political thought, organizers say. The first lecture in the series is Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. "We are very excited about bringing some important scholars in the history of political thought to campus this semester," said Dr. Will Jordan, associate professor of political science and co-director of the Center. "This diverse trio should really get a conversation started about the ideas that underlie contemporary practice, as well as about the past, present and future course of modern democracies."
