Elliot was recommended to the AAMC selection committee by students in Mercer University's School of Medicine for his compassionate and humanistic care of patients and for serving as a positive and caring role model. Only 50 nominees were accepted for consideration.
"Treasures From the Private Collections of Georgia," an exhibit that will be showing at the Museum of Arts and Sciences Feb. 27 to May 9, is featuring 16 artifacts on loan from Mercer's Williams Fielding Ogburn Department of Sociology....
MACON and ATLANTA- Court TV anchor and Larry King Live guest host Nancy Grace will speak at Mercer University's Executive Forum on Monday, April 26.
Grace, a graduate of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law, will give a breakfast presentation at 7:30 a.m. in the Presidents Dining Room in the University Center on Mercer's Macon campus. She will give a lunch presentation at noon in the Trustees Dining Room on Mercer's Atlanta campus.
Grace is the final presenter for the 2003-2004 speakers series of The Executive Forum, a business outreach program of Mercer's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and the Office of Advancement.
A Macon native, Grace was the first female prosecutor in the office of longtime Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton in Atlanta. As a special prosecutor of major felony cases, she tried cases involving serial murder, serial rape, serial child molestation and arson. Grace compiled a perfect record of nearly 100...
ATLANTA - Rachel L. Davenport
of Stone Mountain, Ga., received the prestigious Reuben C. Hood Award during the 2007 commencement of Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in May. Given in honor of a founder and longtime dean of the 103-year-old College, the award is presented annually to the student who has the highest scholastic average in the graduating class of the Doctor of Pharmacy Program. Dr. Davenport completed her four years of pharmacy studies at Mercer with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average.
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 - Because of inclement weather at the host site on Jan. 19, the Georgia Collegiate Wrestling Championships were postponed and moved to Mercer University. The event will now be held Saturday, Jan. 26 in the gymnasium of the Communication and Theater Arts on Mercer's Macon campus.
MACON, Ga. - Friday was supposed to be a day to celebrate the end of another successful year at Mercer University. However, due to the tornadoes that ripped through middle Georgia on Sunday the Mercer Staff Council has opted to help victims by not only donating funds budgeted for their annual picnic, but also by volunteering their time Friday afternoon to help storm victims.
A group of Mercer University students in the Mercer On Mission program are working to record their trip to Costa Rica on their own blog, http://merceronmissioncostarica.blogspot.com. They will be posting throughout their journey through the Central American country, which began July 7 and will end on July 25.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing announced today that it has named Laura P. Kimble, Ph.D., R.N., currently an associate professor of nursing at Georgia State University, as the College's inaugural Piedmont Healthcare Endowed Chair in Nursing, effective July 1. The appointment follows an extensive national search for an outstanding academic scholar who will have a vital role in advancing the new Ph.D. in nursing, which begins this fall.
MACON - For the third-consecutive year, Mercer University student-athletes have earned the top spot among its Atlantic Sun Conference cohorts as the best fund-raisers for charity.
