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.
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MACON, Ga.- Mercer senior forward Wesley Duke has been invited to compete in the Slam Dunk portion of ESPN's Slam Dunk and 3-Point...
ATLANTA - Southern School of Pharmacy of Mercer University is one of only two private pharmacy schools selected to compete in the national Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Competition of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) and the Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy (FMCP). The program is designed to challenge students to gain a real-world perspective on the formulary management process, which helps managed health care systems achieve the challenging goals of controlling costs and improving the quality of care.
ATLANTA – A Georgia Baptist College of Nursing student was recently selected from approximately 40 American and Puerto Rican applicants to receive a $1,000...
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Macon and Atlanta-In January, Mercer University established a Tsunami Relief Committee to raise $15,000 from the university community to support the recovery efforts in South Asia hit by the Dec. 26, 2004, disaster.
Mercer faculty, staff and students have been participating in a variety of activities. The next big fundraiser is Bandfest, a benefit concert featuring contemporary Christian artists "By the Tree" at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, in Willingham Auditorium on the Macon campus. Tickets are $5 for Mercer and Wesleyan students, faculty and staff and their families; $8 for a groups of 15 or more from outside of the University; and $10 for general admission. Tickets are available at the door or by calling (478) 301-2868.
Other activities held by the Mercer community have included:
Collection points on the Macon and Atlanta campuses and at the Regional Academic Centers;
Candlelight vigil service on the Macon campus on Feb. 9;
Pie-a-Professor event on the...
MACON, Ga. - In a time when superior performance in athletics and academics don't always go hand-in-hand, Mercer University men's basketball junior forward Will Emerson has successfully combined the two. He was named to ESPN the Magazine's Academic All-America first team, the day after he was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Conference first team.
A near-impossible feat by the Mercer Bears was recognized by national sports giant ESPN when the nation's cable sports provider ranked the Bears' miracle win over Stetson the number two highlight of the week.
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