The 2010 Mercer University Baseball Team has qualified for its first-ever NCAA championship tournament by virtue of winning the Atlantic Sun Conference title. For more on the team, and its A-Sun triumph, visit mercerbears.com.
MACON - The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Mercer University $185,000 for an institute for school teachers in summer 2012. The University previously received an NEH grant to hold a similar institute in 2010. The 2012 institute will be a five-week course on Southern history and culture, titled "Cotton Culture in the South from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement."
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 Championships.
The Norcross native will travel to St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday, March 30....
ATLANTA -- Steven Simon, Ph.D., an associate professor of management information systems at Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in Atlanta, has been named editor of the Journal of Information Science and Technology.
As editor-in-chief, Simon, a Marietta resident, sets the editorial tone for the journal and reviews each paper as well as selects the associate editor who handles the review process. Each article in the journal is selected through a double blind review.
Journal of Information Science and Technology is a new publication of The Information Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan information policy research and educational organization based in the United Kingdom. The journal will publish original research and comments about the science of information and the application of technology for the successful management of organizations. The first issue of the quarterly publication will be this spring.
Simon said he is excited about serving...
Who: Mercer University's new undergraduates
WESTERVILLE, Ohio - The National Middle School Association, the nation's largest organization focused solely on middle grades education, welcomes Mercer University's Dr. Karen Weller Swanson as the next editor of Research in Middle Level Education Online. Dr. Swanson will serve as associate editor during the first year, working closely during the transition with current editor, Dr. Micki Caskey of Portland State University (Ore.), before assuming the role of editor-in-chief. The RMLE Online editorship is a five-year term.
MACON---Beth Hammond, Dean of University Libraries at Mercer University, has seen the fruits of her labors in print in the newly published book Leadership, Higher Education and the Information Age: A New Era For Information Technology and Libraries. The Macon resident also was one of the speakers at a workshop based on the book sponsored by the North East Regional Computing Program in July.
She was one of several librarians, administrators and information specialists in higher education invited to participate in the book edited by Barbara I. Dewey and Carrie E. Regenstein. Leadership, Higher Education and the Information Age: A New Era For Information Technology and Libraries (Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc., 2003) may be used as a guide for librarians, technologists and campus administrators who are working to devise plans for changing information technology infrastructure at their institutions.
"It's a thought-provoking and practical book," said Hammond,...
The Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University continues to advance in the national rankings due in good part to the opinions of the nation's judges and lawyers. In the 2007 U.S. News and World Report edition of America's Best Graduate Schools now hitting the stands, the school was rated an average of 3 out of a possible 5 by judges and lawyers across the nation, which accounts for 15 percent of a school's overall ranking.
Atlanta
MACON, Ga.- The Belmont Bruins took a late lead and hit their free throws down the stretch, defeating the Mercer men's basketball team, 78-72, in Atlantic Sun conference action Thursday night at the University Center.
Belmont's Boomer Herndon dropped in a layup with 1:45 to go in the contest, snapping a 65-65 tie, and the Bruins hit seven-of-eight from the charity stripe inside the final minute to hold off the Bears.
Neither team could build a comfortable cushion in a first half that featured five ties and four lead changes. With Mercer (5-14, 4-9 A-Sun) trailing by just one, at 17-16, midway through the opening half, guard Justin Hare hit a 3-pointer and junior Andrew Preston hit a shot inside to give Belmont their largest lead of the half. But the Bears rallied, knotting the score at 24 apiece behind five points from senior Will Emerson.
Junior Ross Alacqua then came alive, sparking an 11-0 run as the native of Alpharetta, Ga., followed a driving...
