MACON-2008 American Idol winner and platinum-selling recording artist David Cook will make his Macon debut Wednesday, April 8, when the record-breaking, chart-topping rocker performs at The Grand Opera House, a performing arts center of Mercer University, during his first headline tour "The Declaration Tour - 2009." It is his first scheduled tour date in Georgia.The concert begins at 8 p.m., and the $25 tickets go on sale to the public Wednesday, March 18, at 10 a.m. Tickets are available through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at TheGrandMacon.com. Tickets may also be purchased at one of two Mercer Ticket Sales locations in downtown Macon: The Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry St., or The Grand's Administrative Offices, 400 Poplar St. Just one week after being named the winner of the seventh season of "American Idol," 25-year-old Cook rewrote chart history, with a record-breaking 14 debuts on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs survey. He also had 11 songs jump onto the Hot...
ATLANTA - Susan S. Gunby, R.N., Ph.D., dean of Mercer's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing for more than 20 years, will retire from the post effective July 1, she announced today. Dr. Gunby holds a professorship in the College and will return to full-time teaching upon her retirement as dean.
MACON -- Dr. Florence Kaslow, an internationally renowned leader in family therapy and family psychology, will be the keynote speaker at the 10th annual Armour Family Therapy Lecture Series. Theme of this year's lecture series, to be held March 24-25, is "Multicultural Family Therapy: Around the World and Home Again."
MACON - BB&T Corp. has pledged $1 million to Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics to establish a BB&T Distinguished Professorship of Capitalism and the Center for Undergraduate Research in Public Policy and Capitalism and to continue funding the University's Executive Forum Presented by BB&T.
ATLANTA/SAVANNAH - The Georgia Cancer Coalition has awarded two of its eight research grants for 2009 to Mercer faculty. The group awarded $50,000 each to Dr. Martin D'Souza, professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and co-director of the Center for Drug Delivery Research at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Atlanta, and Dr. Nagendra Ningaraj, a researcher in the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute of Memorial University Medical Center and associate professor with the Mercer School of Medicine in Savannah.
ATLANTA - J. Lyle Bootman, Ph.D., dean of The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, will deliver the 2009 G. Van Greene Distinguished Lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 19, at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on the Atlanta campus of Mercer University. Dr. Bootman will speak on "Value-Based Health Care: The Role of Pharmaceuticals for the 21st Century." The lecture is free and open to the public.
David Ratcliffe, chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company, will be the featured speaker at Mercer University's Executive Forum Presented by BB&T on Tuesday, March 3. Ratcliffe will give a lunch presentation at 12 p.m. at the Capital City Club in Atlanta and a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. in the University Center on Mercer's Macon campus.
McDONOUGH - The first five graduates of Mercer University's Early Care and Education Program, which was established in 2007 as the first in the state to offer a bachelor's degree and certification, will be honored at a ceremony at Mercer's Henry County Regional Academic Center. The event begins at 6 p.m. and will be attended by a number of state and regional officials who are at the forefront of early childhood education.
ATLANTA - What are the ethical implications of climate change? What can people do to confront and solve this mounting challenge? How can we better care for God's Creation? More than 250 students, faculty and staff from Mercer University will be looking for answers to those questions when they gather at a conference, titled "Caring for Creation: Ethical Responses to Climate Change," on Feb. 27 and 28 on the University's Atlanta campus.
MACON, Ga. - The two hottest teams in the Atlantic Sun Conference collide Friday night when the Mercer men's basketball team plays host to Lipscomb in the regionally televised A-Sun Game of the Week, with tip-off slated for 7 p.m. at the University Center.
