MACON--Mercer University's Society for Technical Communication (STC) Chapter in the School of Engineering recently was honored with two awards at the STC international conference in Baltimore, Md.
For the second straight year, the 28-member chapter received the Student Chapter of Distinction Award, the highest honor given to a student chapter in this professional society. The award is only given to one student chapter in each of the STC's two chapter size categories for each region.
The Mercer STC chapter also was honored with the Award of Excellence in the STC Newsletter Competition-the largest, most competitive competition in STC. This was the first year the Mercer STC chapter entered the newsletter competition, and Mercer's student chapter beat out many of the nation's top professional organizations.The judges in the competitions said Mercer University deserved these honors "for spirited promotion of STC and technical communication that 'fires the imagination.'"
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Atlanta--Mercer University will offer a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) preparation course Monday evenings July 12 - Aug. 16. 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.
For more information or to register, contact Angie Macon at (678) 547-6501 or macon_am@mercer.edu.
By examining each area of the GRE, participants in this course will know what to expect on the exam. Early classes will focus on diagnosing individual strengths and weaknesses and developing strategies for improving performance levels.
The course will include an overview of math concepts, including quantitative comparisons, data interpretation, geometry, algebra and arithmetic. The course will prepare participants for the verbal section of the exam by reviewing strategies for tackling reading comprehension exercises, analogies and sentence completions. Students will...
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MACON, Ga.- Mercer had 95 student-athletes earn All-Academic honors during the 2003-04 season, as announced by the Atlantic Sun Conference office.
Mercer ranked fourth in the conference with 59 percent of its student-athletes earning above a 3.0 GPA, the requirement for the Academic All-Conference award.
Each of the 13 sports in which Mercer competes in the Atlantic Sun had at least two members named Academic All-Conference, led by men's soccer with 16 qualifiers.
The women's golf team was one of only seven squads in the conference and the only sport at Mercer to have 100 percent of its student-athletes on the Academic All-Conference list.
"We want our student-athletes to succeed in the classroom as well as on the playing field," said Mercer Director of Athletics Bobby Pope. "We are proud of what our student-athletes accomplished and hope to build upon that next year."
As a conference, a record-level 52.7 percent of...
TORONTO - Sam Mitchell understands there might be questions about his inexperience as a head coach going into his first season leading the Toronto Raptors.
Atlanta-Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy's community pharmacy practice resident Peace Johnson was recently honored with a Presentation Merit Award from the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM).
Macon--Mercer University psychology majors Karen Adkins, Katie Daniel, Tiffany Duffy and Allison Smith recently won the first place award for undergraduate research from the Georgia Psychological Association.
The student research team won the award for their research project entitled "The Effects of Temperament and Breed on Perceptions of Adoptability of Shelter Dogs," which they presented at the Georgia Psychological Association meeting in Hilton Head, S.C. in May.
Throughout the school year, the student research team researched how one dog's behavior affects the way people perceive other dogs of the same breed and the adoptability of a dog of that breed. Their faculty adviser on the project was Dr. John C. Wright, certified applied animal behaviorist and professor of psychology.
Also at the Georgia Psychological Association meeting in May, Samantha Daniel, a spring 2004 graduate of Mercer, won the first place Division of Women Psychologists Award. Daniel's research project was...
Beth Sherouse, a junior at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, has been named one of fifteen Gilder Lehrman History Scholars, chosen from more than 300 candidates nationwide. Each Scholar will be brought to New York City in June for an exclusive six-week program that combines research training, seminars with eminent historians, and behind-the-scenes tours of rare archives.
In addition to transportation, room-and-board, and a $2,400 stipend, each Scholar receives a chance to produce original research resulting from his or her summer work. Applicants to the scholarship program represent more than 191 different colleges and universities across the United States.
Josh Rogers, also of Mercer, was named a Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Finalist; he joined 39 other Finalists in New York City for a one-week version of the program in June.
"These are the brightest young historians in America," said Professor James G. Basker of Barnard College and President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute...
Mercer University Press author Amy Blackmarr was presented with the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the category of Essay for her book Above the Fall Line: The Trail from White Pine Cabin on June 12th at the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in Atlanta.
The presentation was made at the 40th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards Dinner hosted by Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture; the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry and the H. Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Writing.
White Pine Cabin, a hut barely big enough to turn around in, becomes the setting for Blackmarr's searing self-examination as she tells the stories that have led her so far inward and works out a trail back toward a happier connection with herself, the land, her God and the people in her world.
Amy Blackmarr is a South Georgia native who lived in the...
Atlanta-Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy's chapter of the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Students of Pharmacy (APhA-ASP) was recently recognized with a Chapter Achievement Award at the APhA-ASP annual meeting in Seattle, Wash.
