MACON - Students and faculty from Mercer University Opera have teamed up with Stone Academy at the Booker T. Washington Center, artist Wini McQueen and dance choreographer Pilar Wilder, to produce "A Muskrat Lullaby," a children's opera. Students and alumni from Mercer, joined by Stone Academy students, will give four performances on two stages Oct. 18-21. The performances are the result of a partnership between Mercer University and the Macon Arts Alliance's education program, the Douglass Theatre and Georgia Department of Children and Families and the Central Georgia Opera Guild. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information call (478) 301-5751.
MerServe, Mercer's student-run service leadership board for the Macon campus, will conduct the University's annual "Be a Good NeighBEAR" service day Saturday in partnership with local neighborhood associations and Shalom Zones.
MACON - A group of Mercer University business students is working to bring more interaction between the Macon community and Mercer students through a series of events for students and community members called "Paint the Town Orange." The events, which are part of the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce's new "Macon. Discover it." initiative, will take place from April 14-18, include discounts for Mercer students and events that are free and open to public, including an outdoor concert on April 18.
MACON - Mercer University's Southern Studies Program will hold a year of special events, titled "Remembering the Civil Rights Movement," which will include the department's long-running Lamar Lecture Series. The Lamar Lecturer for 2010 is Dr. Minrose Gwin, eminent professor of English at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She will present three lectures titled "Remembering Medgar Evers: Aesthetics, Justice, and the Long Civil Rights Movement," as well as a reading from her novel, The Queen of Palmyra.
MACON - Dr. Walter B. Shurden, an emeritus professor of Christianity at Mercer and one of the country's best-known Baptist historians, will return to Mercer this month as the 2011 Harry Vaughan Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor of Christianity. Dr. Shurden will deliver the 20th anniversary edition of this distinguished series, giving three lectures this month. Each lecture is free and open to the public.
Mercer University’s Board of Trustees, meeting today on the Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta, adopted a record $244 million operating budget for 2017-18 and approved several new academic programs.
The Grand Opera House is pleased to present Ragtime The Musical as its final program for the 2001-2002 Broadway Series on Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, 2002.
ATLANTA-Four Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy students recently placed second in the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy and Therapeutics Competition.
Alonzo J. Logan, Howie McKibbon, Amy Rorer and Peter Strickland won second place in the national competition held in Minneapolis, Minn., in April.
The four students had to analyze and justify a request to add a new drug to a managed care formulary using pharmoeconomic principles learned in class. They competed against approximately 10 teams from across the country.
The students are members of the Southern School of Pharmacy's chapter of the Academy of Managed Care. This national professional society is dedicated to the concept and practice of pharmaceutical care in managed health care environments
"The recognition of our chapter and students on a national level brings honor not only to them, but also to our school," H.W. "Ted" Matthews, dean of the Southern School of Pharmacy, said. "We...
MACON-Mercer University student Krystal Morris will appear on the TV game show, The Price Is Right, June 24.
MACON - Dr. Jeffrey Stephens, an internal medicine professor at Mercer University School of Medicine, was recently named a finalist for the 2004 Humanism in Medicine Award, an annual award sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) through the support of the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative.
