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.
ATLANTA- Mercer University will offer a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) preparation course from 5:30-9:30 p.m. on Thursdays from May 24 - June 28. 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.
(WATCH VIDEO STREAMING OF THE NEWS CONFERENCE BY CLICKING HERE)MACON, Ga. - Mercer Athletics Director Bobby Pope today announced the appointment of two-time national Coach of the Year Janell Jones, currently the head women's basketball coach at the University of California, San Diego, to the same post at Mercer, effective immediately. Jones succeeds Mercer Associate Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator Sybil Blalock, who served as interim coach for the 2006-07 season. Blalock took over in August 2006 when Brenda Welch-Nichols departed for the head coaching position at Sam Houston State University.
To view a video stream of the presentation by Dr. Collins, click here.MACON - A capacity crowd filled Willingham Auditorium Wednesday afternoon to hear the inaugural President's Lecture by Dr. Francis Collins, author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, as he discussed his views on science and religion.
(The following article was published Thursday, April 5, 2007, in the Macon Telegraph.)By Jennifer Burkjburk@macontel.com
