MACON - Mercer alumnus Carl G. Fambro will be moving his restaurant, Francar's Buffalo Wings, to Mercer Village in January, adding another college-friendly business to the growing stable of student-friendly offerings across from the Macon campus. The business will relocate into a building in Mercer Village that includes the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios, between Montpelier and Coleman avenues. Renovation will begin in the next few weeks and the restaurant is expected to be open when students return from the Christmas break.
Tift College of Education is expanding several programs, including the graduate program. The College's Master of Education degree with a concentration in early childhood education, which is currently offered on the Atlanta campus, also will be available at the Douglas County and Henry County Regional Academic Centers beginning this fall.
MACON, Ga.--The Mercer University School of Medicine's Department of Community Medicine will sponsor five additional breast health awareness seminars in central Georgia following the success of an initial seminar on June 27. These seminars serve low income women in eight counties of central Georgia.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics will hold an information session on July 24 for all its programs on the Atlanta campus. The free information session will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 24, in the Trustees Dining room of Mercer's Atlanta campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive. The programs to be featured include the School's new Master of Accountancy and joint Bachelor of Business Administration/ Master of Business Administration program, as well as the Executive MBA and Flexible MBA.
ATLANTA - An unprecedented national summit on torture sponsored by 15 diverse faith groups will convene on Mercer University's Atlanta campus Sept. 11-12 to examine how U.S. government policy in recent years came to sanction torture and discuss ways Evangelical Christians and Americans of other faiths can mobilize to secure a "no torture-no exceptions" policy.
This article was published Wednesday, June 25, in the Jackson Progress-Argus, Jackson, Ga. To link to the story, click here.
MACON, Ga. - For the second time in as many weeks, former Bears' outfielder John Dortch has collected a postseason graduate scholarship. The outfielder for Craig Gibson's baseball squad continues to add academic accolades after becoming the second consecutive Mercer baseball player to earn the Atlantic Sun Conference's male postseason graduate scholarship two weeks ago at the conference meetings. This time the scholarship was a national award with each of the regional selection committees sending their top 10-15 list to the national committee. The national committee then selected 29 male and 29 female winners for each of the three seasons (fall, winter, spring) with Dortch being selected among the top 29 males in the spring term nationally.
Dr. Mike Smith, a medical professor, and the Mercer University community have come together to raise the funding for the sending of a 40-foot container of medical supplies and equipment with Atlanta-based non-profit MedShare International. The medical products will benefit the Sanyati Baptist Hospital in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, a government-owned hospital that has trouble meeting the demands of its patients because of very limited medical supplies.
This story was published Thursday, June 19, in the Macon Telegraph. Click here to link to the story.
A group of Mercer University students in the Mercer On Mission program are working to record their trip to Costa Rica on their own blog, http://merceronmissioncostarica.blogspot.com. They will be posting throughout their journey through the Central American country, which began July 7 and will end on July 25.
