(The following article, featuring former Mercer basketball great Sam Mitchell, was published Tuesday, March 20, 2007, in USA Today.)By Roscoe Nance, USA TODAYSam Mitchell is a late bloomer as an NBA coach, much as it took time for him to become an NBA player.Sports Illustrated magazine, in a poll of 428 players, rated Mitchell the worst coach last season after the Toronto Raptors got off to a 1-15 start. Then the Raptors began this season 2-8.
MACON - Herman Cain, a nationally syndicated radio host and business owner, will be the featured speaker at The Executive Forum on Thursday, April 5. He will give a lunch presentation at noon at The InterContinental Buckhead, 3315 Peachtree Road N.E. in Atlanta. The presentation is sponsored by the Center for Health and Learning, a partnership of Piedmont Healthcare and Mercer University. He will then give a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. at The University Center at Mercer University in Macon.
ATLANTA - Rare books - evaluating, recognizing and preserving them - will be the topic of two programs offered to the public by Mercer University's Monroe F. Swilley, Jr. Library as part of its National Library Week celebration. Both presentations will be held Thursday, April 19, on the Mercer University Atlanta campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, just inside the northeast perimeter, off I-85.
ATLANTA - Runners and walkers of all ages are invited to participate in the Second Annual Claypool Classic 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, April 14, on Mercer University's Cecil B. Day Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive. The 5K course includes 2.1 miles on the road and 1 mile on a cross-country trail that is somewhat hilly. The run is part of the Run & See Georgia Grand Prix series.
(This article was published Saturday, March 17, 2007 in the Macon Telegraph.)By Phillip RamatiTELEGRAPH STAFF WRITERAllen Lynch said one of his longtime goals was to make it on to ESPN.
Match Day 2007 was held Thursday, March 15, 2007 at the Mercer School of Medicine Auditorium. Sixty-three soon-to-be Medical School graduates learned where they will serve their residencies following graduation from Mercer. For coverage of the event, click here: 13-WMAZ, Fox 24.
In Toyko for the competition are, left to right, advisor Andy Digh, an associate professor of Computer Science; senior Britt Daniel, of Grovetown, a computer science and math major; junior David Thomas of Macon, a computer science and math major; and senior John Wright of Warner Robins, a computer science major. TOKYO - Mercer University's Binary Bears return to campus this weekend after a week in Tokyo, Japan, competing against the top computer programming college teams in the world at the 2007 ACM International Computer Programming Contest. The event concluded Thursday night with the awards ceremony where the Mercer team was recognized for Honorable Mention in North America, along with Harvard, Virginia Tech, Vanderbilt, and UNC Chapel Hill. M.I.T. captured first in North America. The complete standings and problems are out at the official site. Additonal information and some great photographs of the team are available at http://www.cs.mercer.edu/new/. Faculty...
MACON - Dr. Francis Collins, author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, will be the first speaker in Mercer University's President's Lecture Series. Collins will speak in Willingham Auditorium on Mercer's Macon campus at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4.
(This article was published Wednesday, March 14, in The Macon Telegraph)By Jennifer BurkTELEGRAPH STAFF WRITERNed Myers plays his part well. Perhaps too well.
MACON - Mercer's Binary Bears are 6,800 miles away preparing to compete in the 2007 ACM International Computer Programming Contest in Tokyo, Japan, but fans are just a mouse-click away from the latest updates on the team. Mercer's Computer Science Department has developed a way for fans of the computer programming team to keep up with the team's activities this week as the team prepares for, and competes in, the World Finals. The team arrived in Japan on Sunday, March 11, to compete against 88 teams from around the world, including only 20 other schools from the United States.
