MACON - Internationally renowned violinist Robert McDuffie will give a free concert on Tuesday, March 11, as part of the Spring String Series of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Neva Langley Fickling Hall of the McCorkle Music Building, 1329 Adams Street, on Mercer's Macon campus.
ATLANTA - "The Link Between Patient Safety and Patient Outcomes" will be addressed in the 2008 Nursing Research Conference, sponsored by The Center for Health and Learning, an educational partnership between Piedmont Healthcare and Mercer University. The conference is designed to enhance participant awareness of common patient safety issues and nursing interventions that promote positive patient outcomes.
ATLANTA - Gary A. Puckrein, Ph.D., a nationally recognized leader in collecting and organizing health care data on minority populations, will deliver the 2008 G. Van Greene Distinguished Lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 20, on the Atlanta campus of Mercer University, 3001 Mercer University Drive. Puckrein will speak on "Building a 21st Century Health Care System." The lecture is free and open to the public.
MACON, Ga. - Mercer Director of Athletics Bobby Pope on Tuesday announced that the University will not renew the contract of head men's basketball coach Mark Slonaker.
MACON - Mercer University will host a national conference on human trafficking, titled "STOP Sex Trafficking: A Call to End 21st Century Slavery," on March 19-20 in Willingham Auditorium on Mercer's Macon campus. The conference is organized by Mercer students in STOP, the Sex Trafficking Opposition Project, to counter the growing worldwide crisis. According to the U.S. State Department, more than a million women and children are trafficked into sex slavery each year. Nearly 20,000 are trafficked annually into the United States and many of these victims are trafficked into the Southeast.
ATLANTA - Mercer University, which is celebrating its 175th year, will mark the anniversary with a special Founders' Day event in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 26 in Day Hall. The event begins at 3 p.m. and will formally kick-off the 175th anniversary celebrations on Mercer's Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus in Atlanta.
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- Critically acclaimed violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti will give her debut recital at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb 28, as director of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University. Personally selected by McDuffie to direct the highly-selective Center for Strings, Moretti has brought a wealth of concert experience and musical talent to the University. She has made extensive solo and collaborative appearances across the United States and abroad in addition to her orchestral career as former concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony and Florida Orchestra.
ATLANTA - When former Vice President Al Gore addressed more than 2,500 people at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration on Jan. 31, among the audience were a number of Mercer University faculty, administrators and students, who heard Gore's speech on "Stewardship of the Earth" in the vast World Congress Center.
WHAT: Randall Peters, Ph.D., chair of Mercer University's Physics Department, offers a unique angle in the story on the new quest by the United States Navy to shoot down an ailing spy satellite before it plunges to earth. Peters was part of team of engineers and scientists that worked on a similar project in 1985, which was part of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program. On Sept. 13, 1985, a United States Air Force fighter jet screamed into the sky, releasing a missile tipped with a miniature vehicle, helping to propel that vehicle into the path of an aging solar-monitoring satellite, the collision turned the satellite into debris. The result was the first, and only, successful deployment of anti-satellite technology by the United States. Peters was a part of Star Wars' Anti-Satellite Program at the time of mission, and he can share insights on the declassified phases of his mission and shed light on the basics of the technology that will be used by the Navy to kill...
MACON - Amina S. Ali, the African Union's ambassador to the United States, will make an official visit to Mercer University, meeting with students, administrators and the community, and delivering a speech at an event on Thursday, Feb. 21. Her speech, entitled "The African Union: Building A New Africa," will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Medical School Auditorium on Mercer's Macon campus, followed by a question and answer session and a reception. The event is free and open to the public."To have the ambassador for the African Union on campus and working with the University to help us to establish new ties with Africa and the African Union is a tremendous honor for Mercer," said Chester Fontenot, Ph.D., Baptist Professor of English and director of Mercer's Africana Studies Program. "We anticipate that she will shed light on the most recent developments in Africa and within the African Union, as well as help us to forge new linkages between the Africa Union and Mercer University,...
