WHO: Mercer University students and members of "We Care," "Weed and Seed" and the Macon Cemetery Preservation Corporation
WHAT: Will cut back the brush that has grown over gravestones in the Linwood Cemetery-a 13-acre cemetery without perpetual care and with only about three acres uncovered by vegetation.
WHEN: Saturday, March 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Linwood Cemetery on Walnut Street in the Pleasant Hill community
BACKGROUND:This is one of many community service projects in which Mercer students are involved. Announced this week, Mercer University is one of only two institutions in Georgia- along with Spelman College- featured in the forthcoming book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement, which will be available in bookstores on June 21. Last semester, in addition to helping remove brush from the gravestones, a group of students in the "First Year Seminar Experiential"...
MACON - A Mercer University School of Medicine faculty member is on the cutting edge of breast cancer and prostate cancer research. Dr. James L. Thomas, assistant professor of pharmacology in the Division of Basic Medical Sciences, received a $928,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine a new target protein for the treatment of breast and prostate cancer - research that could lead to the development of better treatments for the cancers.
Mercer University is one of the nation's best colleges fostering social responsibility and public service, according to The Princeton Review and Campus Compact, a national organization committed to the civic purposes of higher education. The University is one of only two institutions in Georgia- along with Spelman College- featured in the forthcoming book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement, which will be available in bookstores on June 21.
"A college with a conscience," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review vice president for Admission Services, "has both an administration committed to social responsibility and a student body actively engaged in serving society. Education at these schools isn't only about private gain; it's about the public good."
The Princeton Review and Campus Compact winnowed a list of 100 schools from a pool of more than 900 colleges. From this shortlist, the editors collected extensive data about institutions'...
MACON-The new SAT Reasoning Test, which was administered for the first time on March 12, features several changes that give college officials a better idea of how prepared students are for college study, but the writing section poses some concerns, according to Dr. Karen Michael, an assistant professor at Mercer University's Tift College of Education.
Changes to the test include the addition of problems taught in third-year college preparatory math courses, more critical reading questions, the elimination of analogies and a new writing section.
"The inclusion of the Standard English multiple choice questions and the 25-minute essay may provide interesting and superior results since students spend more time in school writing than they do studying analogies," Michael said. "The analogy portion of the SAT has been criticized for years because it does not accurately predict a student's ability to do well in college."
Michael said the writing portion will enable educators to...
SAVANNAH - Memorial Health University Medical Center, one of the major teaching hospitals affiliated with Mercer University School of Medicine, has been ranked No. 23 in a Consumers Digest list of "50 Exceptional U.S. Hospitals." The list, published in the April 2005 issue of the magazine, is derived from a nationwide survey conducted by The Leapfrog Group, an organization that works to promote "leaps" in safety, quality and affordability in healthcare. The list ranks hospitals based on their implementation of 27 proven quality and safety practices.
Macon--Mercer University Commons, the English Department, the Women's & Gender Studies Program, and the Wesley Foundation are co-sponsoring The Adrienne Moore Bond Memorial Symposium March 16-17 on the Macon Campus. There is no charge for the event, and it is open to the public. The symposium will feature three of Mercer's most prominent writers:
David Bottoms: Georgia Poet Laureate; Mercer grad (BA '71); current Ferrol A. Sams Distinguished Chair in English at Mercer; author of two novels & several volumes of poetry, including the Robert Penn Warren Prize-winning Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (1979) and most recently Waltzing through the Endtime (2004).
Pattiann Rogers: Former Sams Chair at Mercer; has taught writing on several other college campuses, including the University of Montana (where she was Richard Hugo Distinguished Poet-in-Residence in 1988); winner of several literary prizes, including the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry...
Guest artist John Wustman, piano, will accompany Mercer University voice faculty members Kyle Ferrill, baritone, and Martha Malone, soprano, in "An Evening of Art Song." The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on March 18 in Fickling Hall of the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon campus. The event is free and open to the public. Call the Department of Music at (478) 301-2748 for more information.
Often called the "dean of American accompanists," John Wustman has enjoyed a musical career in which he has worked with some of the greatest singers around the world. During his New York years, Wustman was the rehearsal pianist for the American Opera Society's presentation of Bellini's II Pirata in Carnegie Hall. He later traveled abroad to teach master classes in German Lieder in Uruguay, Peru and Argentina. His greatest career highlights include a series of televised recitals with Luciano Pavarotti.
Founded in 1833, Mercer University has campuses in Macon and Atlanta as well as three...
MACON - Dr. Paul Seale, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine and a physician at the Medical Center of Central Georgia, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to train primary care faculty and medical residents in alcohol screening and intervention. The project, which will train 430 physicians in Georgia and Texas over the next two years, will build on the successful pilot program conducted at the Family Health Center, a Medical Center of Central Georgia facility that serves as the primary training site for Mercer's family medicine residency program.
Editor's Note: All media are invited to attend. If you are interested in covering this event, please contact Nancy Fullbright at 478-301-2716.
