ATLANTA - The Attorney General of Georgia will address aspiring school leaders at Mercer University's E.L.I.T.E. Leadership Academy at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 3, in the Administration and Conference Center on Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta, 2930 Flowers Road South. Thurbert E. Baker will deliver the keynote address about school-related legal issues.
WHO: Mercer University business students will be presenting its marketing solutions for the Brain Train Group, including marketing research, an integrated marketing communication plan and a commercial development plan for the areas surrounding the 12 stations proposed along the route for the train. WHAT: The "Marketing Promotion" class is presenting their findings to the Georgia Brain Train Group, a nonprofit organization advocating for the "the Brain Train," a commuter rail line proposed to run between Athens and Atlanta connecting colleges and universities. WHEN: Monday, March 5, 2007, 6:15 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Mercer University's Stetson School of Business Building, the Atlanta Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, off of Interstate 85, just inside the Perimeter. WHY: Mercer University, in partnership with other universities and colleges along the route, has committed to supporting the proposed "Brain Train," which would link the many great institutions along...
ATLANTA - The Center for Health and Learning, a partnership between Mercer University and Piedmont Healthcare, will host a nursing conference entitled "Every Nurse Can Be A Research Nurse" on Friday, March 30, at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga. Participants will hear from noted speakers Ora L. Strickland, Ph.D., DSc (Hon.), R.N., FAAN and a panel of clinicians who will discuss research related to nursing practice, education, and research.
(This story was released Feb. 27, 2007, by the Atlantic Sun Conference office.)MACON, Ga. - ETSU's Courtney Pigram quickly became one of the most dangerous offensive players in the entire Atlantic Sun Conference while leading the Bucs to their first league title and as a result, claimed A-Sun Player of the Year honors as voted by the league's head coaches.
ATLANTA - "The City and the Church" is the theme of the March 19-20 workshop of the McAfee School of Theology at the Mercer University Atlanta campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive. Designed for pastors, church staff and lay leaders interested in or working in urban ministry, the program will feature global urban missiologist Dr. Ray Bakke. The author of five books, including "The Expanded Mission of City Center Churches," "The Urban Christian" and "A Biblical Word for an Urban World," Bakke is Distinguished Professor of Global Ministry and academic dean, Bakke Graduate University of Ministry, Seattle, Wash.
CHAMPIONSHIP INFORMATION
Mercer's men's basketball team, the number five seed in the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Championship, will face Lipscomb, the number four seed, at 9:15 p.m. Thursday in the first round. The game will be the fourth of the day in the first round of the tournament and will be televised on CSS-TV.
MACON, Ga./BRENTWOOD, Tenn. - Mercer University and the Baptist History and Heritage Society announced today that Society offices will relocate to Mercer's Atlanta campus in July. The Society's Board of Directors approved the move in a unanimous vote.
The Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Inc. (SBLI) and Judge Homer Drake have pledged a gift to establish the SBLI/W. Homer Drake, Jr. Endowed Chair in Bankruptcy Law at Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law.
WHO: Mercer University engineering students will be pairing up to compete against their fellow students to see who can build a "rubber band dragster" that will travel the farthest without losing parts. The winners, runners-up and the pair with the most creative design will receive prizes. WHAT: The Rubber Band Dragster Mini-Design Competition requires Mercer students to build a dragster out of common office materials. Each group receives a packet prior to the competition that they must use to build and power their cars across the finish line. Each packet contains rubber bands, tape, straws, paper clips, and index cards. The dragster that crosses the finish line first without losing parts wins, if no dragster crosses the finish line, the dragster that travels the farthest wins. Each team has two attempts and takes the better outcome of the attempts.
Because of morning showers and in an effort to properly prepare the field, today's baseball game against the University of Georgia at Claude Smith Field has been moved back to 5 p.m.An overflow crowd is expected at Claude Smith Field Wednesday afternoon when the Mercer baseball team will host Georgia. Following the Bears' early season success of sweeping the #2 ranked Miami Hurricanes and Georgia's trip to the 2006 College World Series, several hundred Mercer and Georgia fans are expected to attend tomorrow's game.
