ATLANTA - Mercer University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences graduate student Delaram Moshkelani has been awarded one of four prestigious 2009 AAPS-AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowships supported by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS).
WHO: 455 Douglas and Paulding County first- through sixth-graders and their parents.
MACON - Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law is hosting a roundtable discussion in November on health care reform, featuring panelists with expertise in law, medicine, political science and hospital administration.
Lithia Springs - Mercer University will hold a free open house at its Regional Academic Center in Douglas County, 975 Blairs Bridge Road, Lithia Springs from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 25. Alumni, current students, faculty and staff will be on hand to talk about the various undergraduate and graduate programs the University offers in Douglas County and the Mercer experience.
Mercer's Regional Academic Center in Douglas County has convenient, weekend and evening classes that can fit into a busy family and career schedule. Mercer's Stetson School of Business and Economics, Tift College of Education and College of Continuing and Professional Studies offer a number of undergraduate programs, including business administration, early childhood/special education and middle grades education, human services, criminal justice, information systems, individualized major and organization leadership.
For more information, call (678) 547-6200 or visit www.mercerdegree.com.
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The Mercer University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Douglas Hill, director of Instrumental Ensembles, College of Liberal Arts, will present its fall concert, A Night of Latin Fantasies, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18. The concert will be held at the new Zuver Performing Arts Center at Mount de Sales Academy, 851 Orange Street, Macon. The community is invited and encouraged to attend this free event.
The program will feature the following Latin works:
Retratos do Brasil (Brazilian Portraits) by Hudson Nogueiro is a programmatic work that depicts various lifestyles of Brazil, including the large pop festivals with the rhythms commonly heard in the carnavals of Rio de Janeiro.
Sorte Overture by Lucidio Quintero is a piece based on a mountainous village in Venezuela. Based on a legend of a beautiful princess being killed by a snake and later her death was avenged by the Indians in the area who blew up the snake. The entire Sorte mountain region and...
Mercer University is now offering a Public Safety Leadership Institute (PSLI), which began Jan. 7 on Mercer's Atlanta campus. The Institute is designed to examine current leadership models and practices and to create an awareness of the knowledge, skills and attributes of a successful leader in the public safety environment. The PSLI has been a collective effort of Mercer's Tift College of Education and the Division of Extended Education.
ATLANTA - Fourteen national and regional authors, including best-selling and award-winning Southern writers Steve Berry, Terry Kay, Hank Klibanoff and Ferrol Sams, will be featured at the 18th annual Mercer University Press Authors Luncheon. Scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Intercontinental Buckhead Atlanta hotel, the event begins at 10:30 a.m. with a reception and book signing, followed by lunch and speakers at noon.
(MACON) Mercer University will host its annual Holiday Open House at the Woodruff House Tuesday-Thursday, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 6-8 p.m. nightly. The Woodruff House, one of Macon's grand antebellum homes, is located at 988 Bond St., adjacent to the University's Walter F. George School of Law.
For the past decade, residents and visitors alike have made this holiday event a family tradition. Each year, the rooms throughout the Greek Revival mansion are adorned with new decorations and themes, making the annual tour an exciting event for all - even the most frequent guest. Visitors follow an illuminated path to the front door where they will be greeted by deans and alumni of Mercer University.
The Holiday Open House features a 12-foot Christmas tree trimmed with more than 500 hand-painted eggs, performances by students from Mercer University's Music Department, and holiday cookies and punch for all guests.
The holiday event is free and open to the public. For more...
MACON - Mercer University's Townsend School of Music will present A Grand Mercer Christmas, a free concert for the community, on Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grand Opera House, a performing arts center of Mercer, located at 651 Mulberry St. in historic downtown Macon. The program, which will be recorded live by Emmy Award-winning Brandenburg Productions for broadcast on Georgia Public Broadcasting and PBS stations across the nation during the 2013 holiday season, will feature two internationallyacclaimed ensembles: the Mercer Singers, conducted by Dr. Stanley Roberts, and the students and faculty of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings. Acclaimed violinist, Macon native and Center for Strings founder Robert McDuffie will serve as master of ceremonies. Holiday favorites alongside new selections composed especially for this concert make the program fun and interesting for all ages and musical tastes, from the traditional "What Child Is This" and "What...
ATLANTA - Results of a new poll of Southern Evangelicals on their attitudes toward torture and its connection to their faith and moral values will be released next month in conjunction with a national summit on torture sponsored by 15 diverse faith groups. The conference, titled "Religious Faith, Torture, and Our National Soul," will convene on Mercer University's Atlanta campus Sept. 11-12.
