MACON, Ga. – Mercer baseball prevailed over Bethune-Cookman 4-2 in a brilliant pitchers duel between Brantley New and R.J Rodriguez on Friday at Claude Smith Field. New tossed seven innings, allowing four hits and two earned but did...
EASTMAN - Mercer University's Eastman Regional Academic Center will begin its second session of spring semester on Friday, March 10. Adults interested in earning a bachelor's degree through the Center's evening and weekend programs should apply at www.mercerdegree.com.   Located at 605 2nd Ave. S.W., adjacent to the Ocmulgee Library Annex, Mercer's Eastman Center is designed specifically with an evening and weekend format for adult learners who want to begin or complete a bachelor's degree at one of the nation's top universities. Classes are held one evening per week or on Saturdays in eight-week sessions. Financial aid is available for students who attend half time or more.   Two of the University's 10 schools and colleges have undergraduate degree programs at the Eastman location and accept students for the second session. Tift College of Education provides initial certification in early childhood/special education and middle grades, as well as a bachelor of science in...
MACON-Mercer University's Townsend School of Music will present "Thanksgiving Song," a concert featuring three of the University's choirs, at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 19, in Fickling Hall of the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon campus.     "Thanksgiving Song" will introduce the new Mercer Men's Choir, directed by Dr. John E. Simons, Mercer music professor and director of graduate studies and the Townsend-McAfee Institute. The concert will also include performances by the Mercer Women's Chamber Choir and the Mercer Singers, both under the direction of Dr. Stanley L. Roberts, Mercer music professor and director of choral activities. The three choirs will perform a program of varied choral works that include both a cappella and accompanied pieces.   The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Patty Crocker at 478-301-2748 or crocker_pc@mercer.edu.   Mercer is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of...
MACON - The Grand Opera House, Central Georgia's exclusive presenter of professional touring Broadway performances, announced a 13-show Variety Series season to complement the 2012 - 2013 Butler Lexus Broadway Series. The Variety Series includes live music, dance, comedy and arts education performances, and the return of live, professional opera to The Grand. "The Variety Series is our opportunity to bring the best of arts and culture from around the world to Macon for Central Georgians to enjoy, be inspired by, and to learn through outstanding, professionally produced performances," said Betsy Fitzgerald, executive director of The Grand, which is a performing arts center of Mercer University. The Variety Series begins with The Royal Drummers and Dancers of Burundi on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. For more than half a century this group, considered to be one of the greatest ensembles in the world, has toured the globe sharing Burundi native arts and culture, inspiring audiences,...
WHO: Mercer University business students will be presenting its marketing solutions for the Brain Train Group, including marketing research, an integrated marketing communication plan and a commercial development plan for the areas surrounding the 12 stations proposed along the route for the train. WHAT: The "Marketing Promotion" class is presenting their findings to the Georgia Brain Train Group, a nonprofit organization advocating for the "the Brain Train," a commuter rail line proposed to run between Athens and Atlanta connecting colleges and universities. WHEN: Monday, March 5, 2007, 6:15 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Mercer University's Stetson School of Business Building, the Atlanta Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, off of Interstate 85, just inside the Perimeter. WHY: Mercer University, in partnership with other universities and colleges along the route, has committed to supporting the proposed "Brain Train," which would link the many great institutions along...
ATLANTA -Mercer University's Atlanta commencement on Saturday at 9 a.m. will include more than 1,000 graduates at the University's first campus-wide outdoor ceremony. The Atlanta ceremony, now the University's largest, consolidates the commencement schedule on the Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus from a high of seven ceremonies last year to one. As many as 6,000 guests are expected for the event, which will be held on the upper fields of the campus, and the University has taken steps to ensure traffic flows smoothly around the DeKalb County campus.
MACON - The 2012 Mercer Law Review Symposium on Thursday and Friday will focus on "Defining and Enforcing the Federal Prosecutor's Duty to Disclose Exculpatory Evidence" as part of the 13th Annual Georgia Symposium On Ethics And Professionalism. The symposium will feature nationally renowned scholars and will take place in the moot courtroom of Mercer Law School from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.The focus of the symposium on federal prosecutors is timely, both because of the recent controversy surrounding the prosecution of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and because this is the inaugural year of Mercer's LL.M. program in Federal Criminal Practice and Procedure."This symposium reflects Mercer's deep commitment to promoting ethics and professionalism among lawyers," said Patrick Longan, professor of law and organizer of the symposium. "We are grateful to Judge Hugh Lawson, without whose vision and leadership this symposium series, now in its 13th year, would not...
Mercer University will continue its “Identity in America” series March 21 at 6 p.m. with a discussion of “The First Americans: Hope and Healing with a Native American Medicine Story” in Willingham Auditorium.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Southern School of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, Georgia Baptist College of Nursing and Mercer Health Systems will hold a Free community health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Sheffield Center on the University's Atlanta Campus, 3001 Mercer University Dr., just off Chamblee Tucker at Exit 94 on I-85 North.   Students will provide screenings for blood pressure, blood glucose, total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol and osteoporosis. Participants can also bring their current prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs for review and consultation. Information will be given on exercise programs, weight-loss and meal-planning, smoking cessation, substance abuse, breast cancer, AIDS and more. Foot examination and evaluation by podiatrist Dr. Frank Sinkoe of Decatur and chair massage therapy by the Academy of Somatic Healing Arts will also be provided.   All screening participants must be 18 years or older.   For more...
Macon and Atlanta- In conjunction with Mercer President R. Kirby Godsey's creation of a new task force on Civic Engagement, the Mercer Center for Community Development and University Commons are hosting a lecture for students, faculty and staff titled "Why Civic Engagement? Why Now?" Rick Battistoni, Ph.D., a leader in the field of community service learning and a professor of political science at Providence College in Rhode Island, will give presentations on both the Atlanta and Macon campuses. He will speak at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 3, on the Atlanta campus in the Trustees Dining Room and at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 4, in Newton Chapel on the Macon campus. Battistoni will discuss ways professors and students can implement more service learning into the curriculum. "Mercer has actively worked with the community for a long time," said Jean Fallis, Ph.D., volunteer coordinator for Mercer's University Commons. "The University now is focusing its attention on increasing...

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