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.
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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...
BOCA RATON, Fla.- The Mercer men's basketball team fell, 91-80, to Florida Atlantic in Atlantic Sun Conference action Saturday afternoon in FAU Arena.
Florida Atlantic spurted out to an early 5-0 lead on senior Fred Marshall's jumper and a Kevin Green 3-pointer, but the Bears quickly answered, taking the lead at 7-5 on the strength of a Brian Pfohl put-back off a Will Emerson miss, a layup by guard Andrew Brown and a long trey by Jacob Skogen.
Another basket by Marshall knotted the game at 7-7, before Mercer (4-7, 2-3 A-Sun) ran off five straight points on a basket by Emerson and Skogen's driving baseline jumper and ensuing free throw.
Florida Atlantic (5-7, 4-1 A-Sun) responded with a 13-4 run, taking a 25-21 edge, with the Owls eventually pushing out to take their largest lead of the opening half on forward Rodney Webb's 3-pointer, putting FAU up, 34-27. The Bears battled back, cutting the deficit to only one shortly before the break. Back-to-back...
MACON, Ga. - After dropping two straight on the road, the Mercer women's basketball team returns to the friendly confines of the University Center to face Stetson Friday. Game Notes (pdf)
The Bears (10-9, 7-5 A-Sun) are undefeated at home in conference play this season, building a 6-0 mark with upsets of Belmont and East Tennessee State. Despite their successes this season, February has been traditionally a tough stretch for the Bears under Brenda Welch-Nichols. Mercer is 24-11 (.686) in January under Nichols, but just 11-16 (.407) in February, including two road losses last weekend.
The Hatters (5-15, 3-10 A-Sun) have been up and down all season, failing to put together anything more than a two-game winning streak. Stetson is 0-12 on the road this season, including a 0-7 mark against conference opponents.
Preseason Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Nefertiti Walker is the motor that makes the Hatters go, leading the team and...
ATLANTA - Mercer University will offer a workshop on psychopharmacology from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 27, at its Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive. The event will be held in Wooten Auditorium in Swilley Library.
MACON - A Mercer University student group is going far beyond Earth Day, celebrated every April 22 since 1970, to educate students and the public on ways to reduce their impact on the environment. The events will run from April 18 through April 25 and will offer new ideas for ways individuals can enhance the global environment by making changes in their own lives. The group planned the events in and around Mercer's Macon campus as part of its Second Annual Earth Week celebrations.
MACON - Gov. Nathan Deal has named Mercer University writing instructor Judson C. Mitcham as Georgia Poet Laureate. Mitcham succeeds College of Liberal Arts graduate David Bottoms, who had held the post for 12 years. Mitcham lives in Macon and teaches in the University's creative writing program.
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.
(The following article was published Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007, in the Douglas County Sentinel.)By Winston JonesStaff Writer Fred W. and Aileen K. Borrish were lauded Wednesday as two individuals who have committed themselves to making quality education available for the people of Douglas County.
