The Macon Promise Neighborhood (MPN) initiative and community partners are celebrating the beginning of construction on the Central Georgia Partnership for Individual and Community Development Center with the unveiling of the artist's renderings and a ceremonial groundbreaking. The ceremony will be held at the site of the new Center at 1780 Anthony Road on Monday, Oct. 15, at 11 a.m. This Center will be placed at the location of the former Ballard-Hudson Middle School near Henderson Memorial Stadium.
Mercer University Life Trustee and former Board of Trustees Chairman Thomas B. (Tom) Black died today at the age of 81. His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church of Columbus.
The Macon Arts Alliance has been awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Art Works grant. Macon Arts Alliance is recommended for a $40,000 grant to support Art Matters: Engaging the Community through Embedded Arts Journalists. Additional funding for the project will come from a matching grant from Knight Arts, a program of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Art Matters is an initiative designed to engage the community through high-quality arts journalism. The Macon Arts Alliance, in collaboration with Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism, will embed paid journalism interns in various arts organizations served by Macon Arts Alliance.
After helping the Mercer baseball team to its first Atlantic Sun Regular Season Title in program history, several Bears received A-Sun Conference postseason honors as announced by the league office on May 20. Tenth-year head coach Craig Gibson was named A-Sun Conference Coach of the Year while sophomore third baseman Chesny Young was named the A-Sun Conference Player of the Year and junior Brandon Barker was voted the A-Sun Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Kellye Moore,'93, appeared in the June 2013 issue of ABA Journal as part of a feature story on six female law firm leaders at the top of their games. Moore has more than 20 years experience as a civil...
MACON - Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, the state's longest standing educator of nurses, has received state approval to expand its Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree to the University's Macon campus. The Georgia Board of Nursing, which approves programs that educate students to sit for nursing licensing exams, approved the expansion on Oct. 23. The program will open in fall of 2013 and offer the final two years of nursing education to current Mercer students, as well as transfers.
Mercer University’s National Alumni Association during halftime of Saturday’s Homecoming football game vs. The Citadel honored 10 individuals for their many important contributions to the University.
Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism (CCJ) and the Sunlight Foundation will host an unconference focused on the issue of urban blight, Aug. 14-15, on the Macon campus.
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University's James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology will hold the fifth annual D. Perry and Betty Ginn Lecture Series Sept. 18-20 on the University's Atlanta and Macon campuses. This year's lecturer is Adrian Wyard, executive director and founder of the Counterbalance Foundation, websites that provide thousands of links and video focused on the interface between science and religion. He will build his three lectures around the theme "Bridging the Gaps: Can Science and Theology Share a Common View of Nature, Life and Personhood?"
SAVANNAH/MACON/ATLANTA - More than 1,750 graduates will participate in Mercer University commencements during May in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah, including the first School of Medicine commencement for the Savannah campus. This also marks the second year for the University's campus-wide outdoor commencement in Atlanta, which has become the University's largest. The University will confer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees during five commencements.

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