MACON, Ga. - The Bob Hoffman era gets underway tonight when the Mercer men's basketball team plays host to LCC International University at the University Center. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m.
ATLANTA/MACON - Nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz will be the featured speaker at Mercer University's Executive Forum Presented by BB&T on Monday, Nov. 3. Boortz will give a lunch presentation at noon in Atlanta at the Four Seasons Hotel, 75 Fourteenth Street, and a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. at The University Center on Mercer's Macon campus.
MACON - Barrack Obama won Mercer University's Student Government Association-sponsored mock election on Oct. 28, but just barely. The Obama/Biden ticket took 49.6 percent of the vote to John McCain and Sarah Palin's 46.5 percent.
MACON - A new grant from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation will help Stetson School of Business and Economics professor Scott Beaulier, Ph.D., advance the study of political economy at Mercer University. Dr. Beaulier, the department chair and assistant professor of economics, will give a special topics course for the spring semester and bring in a number of high-level economists to deliver lectures on contemporary issues in political economy.
SAVANNAH-Mercer University will hold two exploratory information sessions in Savannah to determine if there is interest in establishing a location for its Master of Science in School Counseling program. Mercer's College of Continuing and Professional Studies will hold two exploratory information sessions on Mercer's Savannah campus, located on the grounds of Memorial University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.
Among the many activities planned for Homecoming Weekend at Mercer University, Nov. 21-23, will be the induction of three new members into the Mercer Athletic Hall of Fame. Former men's basketball player James Dartez Talbott, women's basketball player Laura Shamp and baseball player Mark A. Steinbeck will join the 137 members of the Hall of Fame. This year's induction ceremony will be held at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22, in the Presidents Dining Room at the University Center and the inductees will also be recognized at halftime of the Mercer-Georgia Tech basketball game, which tips off earlier that day at 1 p.m.o James Dartez Talbott, CLA '81Talbott is a member of the 1,000-point-club at Mercer, finishing with 1,021 during his three-year career after transferring from Southwestern Junior College in Oklahoma City. He was an All-Conference performer his junior and senior seasons and was team captain both years. Averaging 9.1 points as a sophomore, 14.7 as a junior and 13.5 as a senior,...
The Walter F. George School of Law has been ranked number six in the country among the Best Public Interest Law Schools, according to PreLaw magazine. The rating is based on information reported in the E-Guide to Public Interest Law Schools, including student involvement, curriculum and financial factors.The top 10 law schools included: Northeastern University School of Law, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Lewis and Clark School of Law, American University Washington College of Law, Stanford Law School, Mercer, University of Maryland School of Law, University of Washington School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law and City University of New York School of Law.The publication said the schools in its top 10 excelled in many areas, including the strength of the clinical programs and loan assistance programs, pro bono requirements and the percentage of graduates entering the field.The student involvement category assigned points for student activity and percentage of...
BUIES CREEK, N.C. - A second-half, two-goal salvo earned the Bears a piece of Mercer women's soccer history, as their 2-0 win over Campbell gives the team its first-ever Atlantic Sun regular season championship. Olivia Tucker once again proved the hero for the Bears, heading in the decisive goal from a Meghan Castlado corner in the 56th minute: her second straight game-winner and third goal in as many matches.
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.) MACON - Promising a "sober speech," President Jimmy Carter called on the next administration of the United States to restore human rights as a national priority. Carter made his remarks during the second annual Mercer University President's Lecture Series today on the Macon campus.
MACON - Paul Harvey, Ph.D., will present the 2008 Lamar Memorial Lecture Series of Mercer University, on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 3 and 4, on the University's Macon campus. Harvey, a history professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, will present three lectures around the theme: "Moses, Jesus and the Trickster in the Evangelical South." All lectures are free and open to the public.
