MACON - Mercer's Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations will hold its fourth annual Conference on Great Books and Ideas April 6 and 7 on the University's Macon campus. The conference is centered around Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and includes keynote addresses from two well-known experts on America's founding and Tocqueville in particular, Dr. Peter Lawler of Berry College, who will deliver the opening lecture April 6, and Dr. Harvey Mansfield of Harvard University, who will deliver the closing lecture April 7.
MACON - Mercer University's Townsend School of Music will present more than 65 concerts for its 2011-12 season, including a yearlong concert series featuring national artists celebrating the 10th anniversary of the McCorkle Music Building. The 2011-12 Townsend season continues the popular Fabian String Series of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings and the Masterworks at Noon series.
Bill Underwood readily admits he has "lofty ambitions" for Mercer University.
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University will hold the first three of its 10 commencement ceremonies this Saturday. The health schools will graduate their students in separate ceremonies on their respective campuses in Atlanta and Macon. The remaining seven ceremonies will take place over the next two Saturdays.
MACON - Henry E. Young, Ph.D., was presented the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Faculty Humanism in Medicine Award from Mercer University School of Medicine during commencement May 7 in Macon. Young - the first non-physician to ever receive the award in the School's history - was chosen by the Class of 2005 for his empathetic, sensitive and respective behavior in providing patient care.
(MACON) - The Mercer Wind Ensemble will present a "Concert of Concertos," which will include two Georgia premieres, Friday, April 16, 7:30 p.m., at The Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry St.
The concert will be conducted by Dr. Douglas Hill, associate professor of music, director of instrumental music and coordinator of the music education program for Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts. The concert is free and open to the public.
The two works premiering are Eric Ewazen's (pictured immediate left) "Danzante" (inspired by the Diego Rivera painting) for trumpet and wind ensemble and Gary Ziek's "Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble." James Thompson (pictured far left), past principal trumpet with the Atlanta Symphony and current professor at the Eastman School of Music, will perform as soloist on the first piece, while Brian Nozny, adjunct professor of music at Mercer, will perform as soloist on the latter piece.
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MACON- Mercer University's Political Science Department will host a free public debate on foreign policy Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 6 p.m. in the McCorkle Music Building, Neva Langley Fickling Hall.
This is part of a nationwide event called "The People Speak: America Debates Its Role in the World," in which thousands of debates will take place in hundreds of locations across the country between Oct. 5th and 18th. The goal of the program, funded by the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the United Nations Foundation, is to engage as many Americans as possible in discussions on foreign policy.
There will be two debates, one between Mercer political science faculty members, associate professor Eimad Houry, Ph.D., and assistant professor Gregory Domin, Ph.D. The other debate will be between Mercer honors students Ruth Beerman of Alpharetta and Matt Stone of Warner Robins. They will address such issues as the legitimate use of military force and...
ATLANTA/MACON/McDONOUGH/LITHIA SPRINGS - Students from Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies have published a literary journal, titled Regeneration!: A Journal of Creative Writing, that may be the first of its kind in the country. The journal is written and edited by non-traditional undergraduate students, and is a first, the group says.
ATLANTA - Mercer University will offer a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) preparation course from 5:30-9:30 p.m. on Thursdays from Sept. 20 - Oct. 25. 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.
MACON - Mercer University Trustee Thomas Malone, a 1966 graduate of Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law, is featured on the cover of the 2010 Georgia Super Lawyers magazine under the heading, "The New King of Torts." He was joined on the elite list by fellow Mercer trustees and law graduates Dwight J. Davis and Richard A. "Doc" Schneider, both senior partners with Atlanta's King & Spalding law firm, and M. Diane Owens, partner with Atlanta's Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers. Current Mercer trustee and former board chair David E. Hudson, who earned his undergraduate degree from Mercer and his law degree from Harvard, also was included in the 2010 edition of the publication. He is a partner with the Augusta law firm of Hull Barrett, PC. An understudy of the late and legendary personal injury lawyer Melvin Belli, dubbed "The King of Torts" by LIFE magazine in a 1954 profile, Malone first worked with Belli decades ago on a medical malpractice case, which they won. Eventually, Belli began...
