Mercer University has installed an emergency warning siren to alert campus and neighboring residents of potential danger. The new siren, located on the Macon campus, will be tested for the first time at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 27, as part of the monthly audible test of the Emergency Management Agency (EMA) test. The test will be performed the last Wednesday of each month.According to Mercer Police Chief Gary Collins, "This is one more step in the ongoing effort by Mercer University to improve mass communications with our students, faculty, staff and neighborhood in case of emergency."Along with the siren, there is also a voice address component to inform the campus of an emergency situation. The combined approach of voice and siren can help save lives by eliminating confusion and restoring order.The siren is integrated into the Macon-Bibb County warning system and will be automatically activated when an EMA emergency notification or test is transmitted.
MACON, Ga. -- The Mercer School of Medicine, which last year celebrated its 25th anniversary, has been awarded the largest one-time grant in the history of the school. The National Institutes of Health will provide the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine with $3.1 million to conduct a five-year study of the Church-Based Diabetes Prevention and Translation program.
MACON, Ga., - Sixteen exceptionally talented high school strings musicians from eight states have been selected to participate in the fourth annual Robert McDuffie & Friends Labor Day Festival for Strings. Held at the Mercer University Townsend School of Music in Macon, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, the intense five-day festival and musical learning extravaganza will provide the students an opportunity to study at Mercer with world-renowned violinist and Distinguished University Professor of Music Robert McDuffie and some of the nation's foremost concert artists who also serve as Distinguished Artists of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer.
Mercer students return to the classroom this week to begin the 2008-2009 academic year at all six locations.
WATCH VIDEO STREAMING OF THE SAVANNAH WHITE COAT CEREMONYSAVANNAH, Ga. - Sunday, Aug. 17, was a historic day for Mercer University, Memorial University Medical Center, the city of Savannah and the state of Georgia. Thirty first-year medical students received their white coats and began their education as members of the inaugural class in Mercer's new four-year medical program in Savannah. The White Coat Ceremony, which symbolizes that a doctor should "care" as well as "cure," was held in the Mercer Auditorium of the Hoskins Center for Biomedical Research on the Memorial campus.
Thanks to the previous success of an HIV prevention program developed in a rural Georgia school system, Mike Smith, Ph.D., has been tapped by the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to lead in the development of a similar program for Native American youth in the western U.S. Dr. Smith, Director of AIDS Education and Research at the Mercer School of Medicine, said the original program, called STAND -- Students Together Against Negative Decisions -- was created at the request of medical and educational leaders in a Middle Georgia county following a syphilis outbreak in the early 1990s. Since then, STAND has been implemented in a number of Georgia counties, including Bibb County, in both in-school, after-school and community settings.
ATLANTA - Results of a new poll of Southern Evangelicals on their attitudes toward torture and its connection to their faith and moral values will be released next month in conjunction with a national summit on torture sponsored by 15 diverse faith groups. The conference, titled "Religious Faith, Torture, and Our National Soul," will convene on Mercer University's Atlanta campus Sept. 11-12.
MACON, Ga. - The Atlantic Sun Conference announced the election of its officers for the 2008-09 academic year. Lipscomb President, Dr. Randy Lowry, succeeds Dr. Kerry Romesburg (Jacksonville) as the Conference President and Chair of the Presidents Council. Mercer University President Bill Underwood will serve as Vice Chair of t,he Presidents Council and Chair of the Finance Committee.
MACON - For the sixth consecutive year, The Princeton Review has named Mercer University to its list of America's best colleges in the 2009 edition of the book, "Best 368 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of the four-year colleges in America and two Canadian colleges were chosen for the book.
The city of Atlanta has tapped the China Research Center at Mercer's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics to study its options for a sister city. Currently mulling three offers, the city turned to the Center and director Penelope Prime, Ph.D., a professor of economics at the Stetson School of Business and Economics, to help research the prospects of the three candidate cities, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.To read the story, visit ajc.com.
