(The following article was published Monday, April 23, 2007 in the Macon Telegraph.)By JENNIFER BURKThe TelegraphMercer University students who don't feel safe on a nighttime walk through campus soon will have the option of setting an alarm to notify campus police if they don't reach their destination.That's just one of the features included in a new cell phone plan designed specifically for Mercer students.
WHO: Thirty-eight teams, made up of 124 Mercer University first-year engineering students, along with a number of spectators, including parents, professors and students will be on hand for the Mercer School of Engineering's annual Introduction to Engineering Design Competition.
MACON - Christopher Gardner, whose life story served as the basis for the hit movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" featuring Will Smith, will speak Saturday on Mercer's Grand Opera House at 7 p.m.
MACON - Mercer University students will present their research projects during an Undergraduate Research Symposium this Friday, April 20, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Tarver Library on Mercer's Macon campus. The event will feature 27 posters, highlighting projects completed by 40 Mercer undergraduate students who conducted research with professors from the School of Medicine, the School of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts.
ATLANTA - China, with a 10 percent annual growth and rapid industrialization and infrastructure expansion, is increasing energy use at unprecedented rates. American consumers are already feeling those increases at the gasoline pumps as China's growth increases demand - and prices - for the world's oil supplies. As these forces continue, where will China place itself?
(Mercer President William D. Underwood on Wednesday shared this message with faculty, staff and students as a follow-up to the tragedy that occurred this week at Virgina Tech.)
The entire Mercer family is saddened by the tragic events that occurred on the Virginia Tech campus earlier this week. In the aftermath of that tragedy, there are many questions about how this could happen on any college campus in America, and what could be done to prevent it from happening again.
MACON - Richard Wessenberg, the senior NASA engineer in charge of a robotics project that could one day explore the surfaces of distant planets, will speak at Mercer University at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, in Room 204A at the School of Engineering. Wessenberg will give a presentation on the project, entitled "Addressable Re-configurable Technology (ART) Tetrahedral Robotics at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center."
STATEMENT FROM MERCER PRESIDENT WILLIAM D. UNDERWOOD
MACON/ATLANTA - Two Mercer University faculty members were among 12 educators from across the state selected to participate in the prestigious Governor's Teaching Fellows Program this summer. Donald Ekong, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Engineering, and John Summerville, R.N., M.N., an assistant professor in the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, were selected to participate in the program's intensive summer symposium.
ATLANTA - Mercer University will offer a workshop on psychopharmacology from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 27, at its Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive. The event will be held in Wooten Auditorium in Swilley Library.
