(To watch the Raising of the Flags Ceremony via Web streaming, click here.)MACON - The Mercer University School of Medicine kicked off the celebration of its 25th anniversary today with a flag-raising ceremony for the School of Medicine and its two teaching hospitals, the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
WHO: Mercer University, The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
MACON - Environmentalist and international affairs expert Sir Crispin Tickell will present "Environment on the Edge" at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Seventh Annual John E. James Distinguished Lecture. The presentation will take place in the Moot Court Room of Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law in Macon.
MACON, Ga., - Seventeen exceptionally talented high school strings musicians from 13 states have been selected to participate in the third annual Robert McDuffie & Friends Labor Day Festival for Strings. Held at the Mercer University Townsend School of Music in Macon, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 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.
MACON - For the fifth year in a row, The Princeton Review has named Mercer University to its list of America's best colleges in the 2008 edition of the book, "Best 366 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of the four-year colleges in America and two Canadian colleges were chosen for the book.
(To review all of Mercer University's recent rankings and recognition, click here.)MACON, Ga. - Academic excellence at a great price continues to place Mercer University among America's best institutions of higher education in the latest U.S. News & World Report college guide.
MACON - Dr. Robert W. Parris, University Organist of Mercer University and the Charles B. Thompson Professor of Organ, Townsend School of Music of Mercer, will perform works by Mozart and Bach on the renowned C. B. Fisk organ at Christ Episcopal Church on Tuesday, Aug. 21. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. at the church, located at 582 Walnut Street, downtown Macon.
(If you are a student or parent and need more information about purchasing a cell phone, please contact Mercer Rave store manager Renee Jackson at rjackson@ravewireless.com.)When freshmen step onto Mercer University's Macon campus on August 18 for move-in day, they will have a new tool in their backpacks: a Mercer-specific cell phone. The phones are part of MercerMobile, a new communications system that will help students to stay in better touch with other students, their friends and families, and especially the Mercer community. Developed and offered by Sprint and Rave Wireless, MercerMobile represents the latest in mobile communications for universities.
WHO: Mercer administrators, faculty and staff will be on the Macon campusready to move boxes, refrigerators and anything else the arriving enteringstudents are bringing to start their college life.
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The 145 students entering the four-year Doctor of Pharmacy Program of Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Atlanta
