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Approximately 60 first-year students entering the Mercer University School of Medicine.
ATLANTA - Mercer University will offer a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) preparation course from 5:30-9:30 p.m. on Thursdays from Sept. 20 - Oct. 25. Offered on the University's Cecil B. Day Atlanta Campus, this six-week course is designed to help individuals score their best on the GRE and get them one step closer to graduate school.
MACON - An entire class of students from the Mercer University School of Medicine's Master of Science in Anesthesia degree program will present research posters at the national meeting of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists in Denver, Colo., Aug. 3-7. Guided by Dr. Roy Russ, associate professor of pharmacology, and Dr. Michael Russell, assistant professor of physiology, the eight students, conducted research regarding pulmonary hypertension and ischemic reperfusion injury, which are significant complications of major surgery, particularly in lung transplantation.
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- Mercer University organist Dr. Robert W. Parris, the Charles B. Thompson professor of music, Townsend School of Music of Mercer, has recently received critical acclaim for his new CD release on the Loft Recordings label. The review by The American Organist magazine stated, "[Parris] is a solid, no-nonsense performer whose playing is characterized by vitality, clarity, rhythmic freedom and stability, lyricism, and stylistic integrity." The American Organist is "published monthly by the American Guild of Organists and is the mostly widely read journal devoted to organ and choral music in the world," according to its Web site.
Parris' album, entitled "Land of Rest," is available on Loft Recordings' Gothic Catalog Web site (www.gothic-catalog.com), and is described as "a varied selection of works particularly suited to the new C. B. Fisk organ in Macon, Ga. The program showcases the Fisk brand of eclecticism in a...
MACON, Ga. - The Mercer University Athletics Department and Internet Consulting Services have teamed up to redesign and re-launch MercerBears.com (www.mercerbears.com), the official web site of Bears athletics. The redesigned web site contains news, features and dynamic applications that bring Mercer alumni and fans closer than ever to their favorite teams and student-athletes.
MACON, Ga. - Former Mercer men's golfer Tom Abbott is working with the Golf Channel covering the Open Championship, being played at Carnoustie, Scotland.
(The following article was published Friday, July 20, 2007 in the Macon Telegraph.)By JENNIFER BURKjburk@macon.comIt's hard to pinpoint exactly what Bill Underwood has accomplished in his first year as president of Mercer University. Not because he hasn't done anything, but because he hardly ever keeps any of the credit for himself.He praises his admissions staff for recruiting a strong freshman class.
Gary Richardson, the Benjamin W. Griffith Jr. Professor and Chair of English, and teacher of Mercer University's "Harry Potter and 20th Century Fantasy" course, is featured in a recent CNN.com article. Click here to view the article.
Richardson's course, "Harry Potter and 20th Century Fantasy," teaches students to look with a critical eye on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, as well as 20th century fantasy icons J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin. Richardson began his study of the Potter books when his children took an interest in them when the series began 10 years ago and over the life of the series he has taught students who grew up with the series and with Pottermania.
The Macon Mayoral Forum, which was held Thursday night at the Grand Opera House, will be broadcast daily by Cox Communications on WCOX (Channel 15) daily until the July 17 Primary. Cox will re-broadcast the Forum Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, 8:30-10 p.m.; and Sunday, 2:30-4 p.m.All seven candidates who have qualified for the Primary, Thelma Dillard, Henry Ficklin, Anita Ponder, Lance Randall, Robert Reichert, David Cousino and Arlan Gibson, participated in the Forum.The event was sponsored by Mercer University, The Telegraph, and the League of Women Voters, with the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.For more information about the Mayoral Forum, click here.
Mercer Graduate Matthew Wetherington, center, with friends Kathine Li and Nick Newins, is traveling the country in an RV for a television show, "Roadtrip Nation."MACON, Ga.- Matthew Wetherington, a 2007 Mercer University graduate, knows he wants to make a difference in the world. How? He's not sure yet, but he's taking a road trip to sort things out. Wetherington set off on his journey this month as part of the PBS documentary series, "Roadtrip Nation."
