The Legal Writing Program at the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University is again the top-ranked program among all of the law schools in the nation as announced today by U.S. News and World Report. The 2009 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools lists Mercer's program first in the country after being tied for first with Seattle University in 2006, second in 2007 and first in 2008. Seattle this year is ranked second, followed by University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Temple University, John Marshall Law School, Stetson University, Boston College, Northwestern University, Brooklyn Law School and the University of Oregon.
MACON - Mercer University students, faculty and staff will join the Historic Macon Foundation and Beall's Hill residents in a Neighborhood Cleanup on Thursday at 3 p.m. The event will be followed by a cookout at 5 p.m. for participants.
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MACON, Ga. - Mercer Athletics Director Bobby Pope on Thursday introduced veteran coach Bob Hoffman as the new head men's basketball coach, effective immediately. Hoffman was recommended by a 10-member search committee that included Trustees Sam Mitchell, Diane Owens, Tony Moye, Bruce Gordy, Dick Plunkett, Mercer alums and former athletes John Collier and Tommy Mixon and boosters Charlie Cantrell and Henry Arrington. He succeeds Mark Slonaker, who coached the Bears from 1997 to 2008.
MACON, Ga. -No family is immune from the possibility of dealing with age-related, memory-loss and/or confusion illnesses. Two of the more prominent are Parkinson's Disease Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia. Because of the aging of the population, particularly Baby Boomers, and the fact that people are living longer, these diseases are expected to triple in prevalence over the next 40 years. And Middle Georgia may experience an even greater rate of increase since Georgia ranks in the 3rd and 4th deciles of elderly influx among the 50 U.S. states.
MACON - The Tubman African American Museum, in partnership with Mercer University and the Georgia Humanities Council, is bringing five scholars from around the country to lecture about five black leaders from Central Georgia who helped to shape the post-Civil War South. The event is the 2008 edition of the Ellen Craft Memorial Lecture Series and is entitled "The Rise of Prominent National African-American Leaders in Macon from Reconstruction to the 20th Century." It will take place March 28 and 29 at Mercer University's Macon campus.
MACON, Ga. - Mercer University President William D. Underwood today announced the appointment of John H. Dickson, D.M.A., as dean of the Townsend School of Music, effective July 1, 2008. Dickson, currently director of Choral Studies and chair of the Conducting Division at Texas Tech University, succeeds Stanley L. Roberts, who will return to full-time teaching after having served the University as interim dean since May 2007.
This story was published Monday, March 24, 2008, in the Macon Telegraph. Click here to read the story.
MACON - The College Hill Corridor Commission and Mercer University Students for Environmental Action will kick off a weeklong celebration of pedal power with a press conference at 4:30 p.m. on March 24 in the Lecture Hall of Willet Science Center on Mercer University's Macon Campus. (Directions available at
http://chemistry.mercer.edu/Willetdirections.htm
.)The press conference will officially launch the Bear Bikes program, a free program where Mercer University students, faculty and staff can check out reconditioned bright orange bikes to ride around campus and through downtown. The conference will also announce a weeklong schedule of public events from March 24-30, including daily bike rides to lunch venues and three evening rides. Discounts will be given to all bike riders at these events, thanks to our generous downtown partners.All events are open to the media and the public. To donate a bike, bike gear, parts, tools or accessories, please email...
ATLANTA/MACON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will be the featured speaker at Mercer University's Executive Forum Presented by BB&T on Thursday, April 10. He will give a lunch presentation at 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.
The 2008 Law Day Luncheon, held March 7 at the University Center and sponsored by the Walter F. George School of Law, is now available for viewing by video streaming. The 2008 Law Day program honored members of the Law School Class of 1948, who were observing their 60th year reunion. The Honorable Jim Marshall, who represents Georgia's 8th Congressional District and a former faculty member at the Law School, saluted the Class of '48 in his keynote address. To watch the event, click here.
