(MACON) The musical comedy sensation Crazy For You will highlight numerous Gershwin classics when the national tour performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, at The Grand Opera House. Tickets are available through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at thegrand.mercer.edu. Tickets range from $35 to $40.
The audience will be swept up in an artfully constructed tale of boy meets girl in the Wild West, where romance, mistaken identities, ribald humor and show-stopping musical numbers add up to irresistible fun. Adapted from the 1930 Gershwin hit Girl Crazy, the show tells the hilarious romp of a stage-struck playboy in a Nevada mining town.
Crazy For You is filled with the glorious music of two of America's most prolific composer/lyricists, George and Ira Gershwin. The show uses seven great Gershwin songs from Girl Crazy and thirteen other Gershwin hits from Broadway shows like Treasure Girl, Oh! Kay, Show Girl and Ladies First and Hollywood films like...
Macon, Ga.- The CRCT, ITBS, High School Graduation Test and other benchmark and standardized tests are at the forefront of many students', teachers' and parents' minds this spring. Dr. Karen Michael, an assistant professor at Mercer University's Tift College of Education, says it is up to parents and teachers to improve their students' confidence in testing to increase their motivation to do well on these standardized tests that are becoming increasingly important in this age of educational accountability.
Below, Michael, who completed her dissertation on the fifth grade standardized writing test and served on a testing committed when she taught school in Gwinnett County, lists some strategies for students of all ages to employ while taking tests. Michael taught pre-K through eighth grade for eight years.
Reading Strategies1. Read the questions first, and then read the passage.2. Analyze the characters and the plot as you read. Try to make a connection to...
WHO: Sponsored by QuadWorks
WHO: Mercer University students and members of "We Care," "Weed and Seed" and the Macon Cemetery Preservation Corporation
WHAT: Will cut back the brush that has grown over gravestones in the Linwood Cemetery-a 13-acre cemetery without perpetual care and with only about three acres uncovered by vegetation.
WHEN: Saturday, March 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Linwood Cemetery on Walnut Street in the Pleasant Hill community
BACKGROUND:This is one of many community service projects in which Mercer students are involved. Announced this week, Mercer University is one of only two institutions in Georgia- along with Spelman College- featured in the forthcoming book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement, which will be available in bookstores on June 21. Last semester, in addition to helping remove brush from the gravestones, a group of students in the "First Year Seminar Experiential"...
MACON - A Mercer University School of Medicine faculty member is on the cutting edge of breast cancer and prostate cancer research. Dr. James L. Thomas, assistant professor of pharmacology in the Division of Basic Medical Sciences, received a $928,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine a new target protein for the treatment of breast and prostate cancer - research that could lead to the development of better treatments for the cancers.
Mercer University is one of the nation's best colleges fostering social responsibility and public service, according to The Princeton Review and Campus Compact, a national organization committed to the civic purposes of higher education. The University is one of only two institutions in Georgia- along with Spelman College- featured in the forthcoming book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement, which will be available in bookstores on June 21.
"A college with a conscience," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review vice president for Admission Services, "has both an administration committed to social responsibility and a student body actively engaged in serving society. Education at these schools isn't only about private gain; it's about the public good."
The Princeton Review and Campus Compact winnowed a list of 100 schools from a pool of more than 900 colleges. From this shortlist, the editors collected extensive data about institutions'...
MACON-The new SAT Reasoning Test, which was administered for the first time on March 12, features several changes that give college officials a better idea of how prepared students are for college study, but the writing section poses some concerns, according to Dr. Karen Michael, an assistant professor at Mercer University's Tift College of Education.
Changes to the test include the addition of problems taught in third-year college preparatory math courses, more critical reading questions, the elimination of analogies and a new writing section.
"The inclusion of the Standard English multiple choice questions and the 25-minute essay may provide interesting and superior results since students spend more time in school writing than they do studying analogies," Michael said. "The analogy portion of the SAT has been criticized for years because it does not accurately predict a student's ability to do well in college."
Michael said the writing portion will enable educators to...
SAVANNAH - Memorial Health University Medical Center, one of the major teaching hospitals affiliated with Mercer University School of Medicine, has been ranked No. 23 in a Consumers Digest list of "50 Exceptional U.S. Hospitals." The list, published in the April 2005 issue of the magazine, is derived from a nationwide survey conducted by The Leapfrog Group, an organization that works to promote "leaps" in safety, quality and affordability in healthcare. The list ranks hospitals based on their implementation of 27 proven quality and safety practices.
Macon--Mercer University Commons, the English Department, the Women's & Gender Studies Program, and the Wesley Foundation are co-sponsoring The Adrienne Moore Bond Memorial Symposium March 16-17 on the Macon Campus. There is no charge for the event, and it is open to the public. The symposium will feature three of Mercer's most prominent writers:
David Bottoms: Georgia Poet Laureate; Mercer grad (BA '71); current Ferrol A. Sams Distinguished Chair in English at Mercer; author of two novels & several volumes of poetry, including the Robert Penn Warren Prize-winning Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (1979) and most recently Waltzing through the Endtime (2004).
Pattiann Rogers: Former Sams Chair at Mercer; has taught writing on several other college campuses, including the University of Montana (where she was Richard Hugo Distinguished Poet-in-Residence in 1988); winner of several literary prizes, including the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry...
