MACON- Mercer University will hold its annual Homecoming Parade on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. The Mardi-Gras themed parade will feature floats from campus organizations and the local community. The parade will begin at the Walter F. George School of Law atop Coleman Hill. It will continue to Georgia Avenue, then to College Street and wrap around the outskirts of the University's main Macon campus ending at Porter Track, off Stadium Drive.
The parade will feature approximately 16 floats designed by Mercer students, an ROTC Hummer, fire trucks and the Mercer Homecoming Court. Dr. Kedrick Hartfield, assistant professor of mathematics in Mercer's College of Liberal Arts, will serve as grand marshal.
Prime spots to catch a good view of the parade include Tattnall Square Park and the sidewalks along College Street between Forsyth Street and Coleman Avenue.
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Macon-A student-professor team from Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts have built a highly sophisticated computer cluster that performs advanced scientific calculations at rates sometimes exceeding 8.5 billion calculations per second. Supercomputers with the type of power the computer cluster the two have created can easily exceed $1 million in cost. Andrew Pounds, associate professor of computer science estimates that this project cost about $50,000.
Pounds designed and constructed the "Olympus Cluster," with the help of Bennie Coleman, a computer science and information technology major at Mercer. It consists of 44 computers that students and faculty traditionally use for common Windows functions on the Macon campus during the day. After the computer lab closes at 6 p.m., the computers are programmed to automatically reboot. When they reboot, the computers are linked to work as one "supercomputer," working together to perform highly advanced scientific calculations....
MACON-Renowned professional communicator Dr. Jean-luc "JL" Doumont will give a free seminar entitled "Making the Most of Your Presentation" at Mercer University's School of Engineering. His presentation will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18, in room 210 of the Engineering Building on the Macon Campus, just off I-75 and Mercer University Drive. The event is open to the public.
A guest of Mercer's Technical Communication Department faculty, Doumont is an engineer with a doctoral degree in applied physics from Stanford University. He has extensive experience in teaching engineers to write and speak effectively. The Belgium resident's visit is part of a South American-North American tour of universities and companies throughout January.
In his description of the seminar "Making the Most of Your Presentation," Doumont notes, "Effective oral presentation skills are a key to success for engineers, scientists and other professionals, all the more so in today's...
Mercer ranks in the top 10 percent of comparable U.S. universities in engaging undergraduate students in educational opportunities, such as challenging coursework and interaction with faculty members, according to the results of a recent national study.
Almost by accident, a Mercer University professor invented an instrument that may lead to an inexpensive early-warning device for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis for use in homes or businesses.
For a growing number of high school seniors, spring is no longer time to swap homework for college applications.
(MACON) Part of the closing activities of the International Conductors Workshop (ICW) and Festival, being held Jan. 12-16 at Mercer University in Macon, will be a free concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16, in the Neva Langley Fickling Hall of Mercer's McCorkle Music Building. Some of the participants of the five-day workshop will conduct the Macon Sinfonia in a program featuring the works of Beethoven. The public is invited to attend.
"We have outstanding talent who will conduct," said Adrian Gnam, director of the workshop and festival. The participating conductors will have worked with members of the Macon Sinfonia throughout their workshop sessions.
This is the second year that Mercer University, the Macon Symphony and the St. Petersburg (Russia) Philharmonic Society have collaborated for this important training event for conductors from all over the world. Countries represented are Japan, South Korea, Nicaragua, Armenia, Israel, Brazil and the...
Chuck Bengochea, CEO of Norcross-based Honeybaked Ham, will speak Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 7 p.m. at Mercer University's Stetson School of Business & Economics in Atlanta.
The presentation will be held in the Trustees Dining Room on the Atlanta campus of Mercer University at 3001 Mercer University Drive. Bengochea will speak to Mercer business students about ethics in business.
Founded in 1833, Mercer University has campuses in Macon and Atlanta as well as three regional academic centers. With 10 schools and colleges, the University offers programs in liberal arts, business, engineering, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law and theology.
For 15 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has named Mercer University as one of the leading universities in the South.
ROME, Ga. - Mercer University School of Medicine Alumna Julie C. Barnes, M.D., F.A.C.P., an internist practicing in Rome, Ga., has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the society of internists. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine, the specialty of adult medical care.
Macon-Mercer University's student affiliate chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) received an Outstanding award for its chapter activities during the 2003-2004 academic year. This is the second year in a row that the Mercer University chapter has received this honor.
The 2003-2004 student officers Ron Hunter, president; Ketan Patel, vice president; Holly Cagle, secretary; and Delaram Moshkelani, treasurer. Assistant Professors of Chemistry Dr. Nancy Dopke and Dr. Arthur Salido are co-advisers for the group.
"I'm extremely happy that we received the Outstanding award once again," Hunter said. "The chapter, as a whole, really deserved the award because of all the commitment and heart every member showed throughout the course of the year. In short, we sowed great things and reaped a great reward."
The Outstanding award is the highest award given to a student affiliate chapter by the national organization. The Mercer chapter was one of the 26 chapters out of more than 960 in...
