Atlanta--Vijaya Subrahmanyam, associate professor of finance at the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics of Mercer University, was recently nominated a director for the League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County.
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.Subrahmanyam said as a trained economist and educator with a strong interest and consulting background in public policy, she will strive to help educate the public about the democratic process.
"If I can in any way mobilize people, particularly women and minorities, to vote and make them realize that their vote matters, I think I may have made a difference," she said.
Subrahmanyam will serve as a director until 2006. She teaches on Mercer University's Cecil B. Day...
The late 1960s and early 1970s were turbulent times at Mercer University. With our troops fighting in Vietnam, marchers both for and against Civil Rights filling our nation's streets, women demanding equality in the workplace, and the leaders of the counter-culture in full gallop, Mercer's faculty had to face the same question that occupied universities throughout the United States-how could they make the curriculum and college life more relevant and meaningful? Many, perhaps most universities were not up to the task. But at quiet little Mercer University, a small core of Liberal Arts faculty decided that Mercer needed to do more than ponder the problem and write reports. They decided to undertake a grand experiment -- to move learning from the classroom to the world at large, to work with students in small groups as mentors rather than lecturers, to involve older undergraduate students as assistant teachers and to give students some control over their own academic...
MACON-Swedish physicist and professor Dr. Claes Fredriksson will visit Mercer University this fall as a scholar-in-residence for the College of Liberal Arts. During the semester, he will teach in the Department of Environmental Science, as well as engage in research and discussion with College of Liberal Arts and School of Engineering faculty.
MACON--Mercer University's Society for Technical Communication (STC) Chapter in the School of Engineering recently was honored with two awards at the STC international conference in Baltimore, Md.
For the second straight year, the 28-member chapter received the Student Chapter of Distinction Award, the highest honor given to a student chapter in this professional society. The award is only given to one student chapter in each of the STC's two chapter size categories for each region.
The Mercer STC chapter also was honored with the Award of Excellence in the STC Newsletter Competition-the largest, most competitive competition in STC. This was the first year the Mercer STC chapter entered the newsletter competition, and Mercer's student chapter beat out many of the nation's top professional organizations.The judges in the competitions said Mercer University deserved these honors "for spirited promotion of STC and technical communication that 'fires the imagination.'"
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Atlanta--Mercer University will offer a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) preparation course Monday evenings July 12 - Aug. 16. Offered on the University's Cecil B. Day Atlanta Campus, this six-week course is designed to help individuals score their best on the GRE and get them one step closer to graduate school.
For more information or to register, contact Angie Macon at (678) 547-6501 or macon_am@mercer.edu.
By examining each area of the GRE, participants in this course will know what to expect on the exam. Early classes will focus on diagnosing individual strengths and weaknesses and developing strategies for improving performance levels.
The course will include an overview of math concepts, including quantitative comparisons, data interpretation, geometry, algebra and arithmetic. The course will prepare participants for the verbal section of the exam by reviewing strategies for tackling reading comprehension exercises, analogies and sentence completions. Students will...
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MACON, Ga.- Mercer had 95 student-athletes earn All-Academic honors during the 2003-04 season, as announced by the Atlantic Sun Conference office.
Mercer ranked fourth in the conference with 59 percent of its student-athletes earning above a 3.0 GPA, the requirement for the Academic All-Conference award.
Each of the 13 sports in which Mercer competes in the Atlantic Sun had at least two members named Academic All-Conference, led by men's soccer with 16 qualifiers.
The women's golf team was one of only seven squads in the conference and the only sport at Mercer to have 100 percent of its student-athletes on the Academic All-Conference list.
"We want our student-athletes to succeed in the classroom as well as on the playing field," said Mercer Director of Athletics Bobby Pope. "We are proud of what our student-athletes accomplished and hope to build upon that next year."
As a conference, a record-level 52.7 percent of...
TORONTO - Sam Mitchell understands there might be questions about his inexperience as a head coach going into his first season leading the Toronto Raptors.
Atlanta-Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy's community pharmacy practice resident Peace Johnson was recently honored with a Presentation Merit Award from the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM).
Macon--Mercer University psychology majors Karen Adkins, Katie Daniel, Tiffany Duffy and Allison Smith recently won the first place award for undergraduate research from the Georgia Psychological Association.
The student research team won the award for their research project entitled "The Effects of Temperament and Breed on Perceptions of Adoptability of Shelter Dogs," which they presented at the Georgia Psychological Association meeting in Hilton Head, S.C. in May.
Throughout the school year, the student research team researched how one dog's behavior affects the way people perceive other dogs of the same breed and the adoptability of a dog of that breed. Their faculty adviser on the project was Dr. John C. Wright, certified applied animal behaviorist and professor of psychology.
Also at the Georgia Psychological Association meeting in May, Samantha Daniel, a spring 2004 graduate of Mercer, won the first place Division of Women Psychologists Award. Daniel's research project was...
