Macon--As Mercer gears up for 2004-2005, the University has many reasons for anticipating another exceptional academic year.
The University's reputation for excellence has reached the far corners of the country, with an approximately 725 new undergraduate students joining the Macon campus representing 28 different states, including Maine, Iowa and California. The University's international population is also growing, with freshmen joining the University from Ghana, Bolivia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Mexico and Sweden.
The new students bring to campus some impressive academic qualifications. The freshmen class has an estimated 1200 SAT average, including one student who achieved a perfect 1600, and an academic grade point average of 3.6. The School of Engineering touts the highest freshman SAT average, with its incoming students averaging a SAT score of 1214.
Approximately 135, or 19 percent, of the new undergraduate students are transfer students. Some of the...
Atlanta-Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy's Center for Clinical Research is seeking Alzheimer's patients to participate in an investigational drug study.
Atlanta-Gov. Sonny Perdue recently announced the appointment of Mercer alumna Delynn Marie Keeton to the Georgia Board of Nursing.
Reprinted from the Daily Herald By Clay Wilson
Classroom 142 of the Mercer Regional Academic Center was as tense as a newsroom on deadline Thursday.
Indeed, the click of keyboards and the concentration of the writers pointed to a looming deadline. The 20-or-so youngsters in the class were typing away on their almost-final drafts of works that were on their way to the publisher.
The rising fourth-through-rising sixth graders from the Henry and Spalding County school systems were participating in Mercer University's "College for Kids Budding Authors" program.
"You can see the tension," said program coordinator Natasha Griffin. "It's crunch time.
The program takes (students) through the writing process-the drafting, the editing, the revising.
"We're trying to help motivate them to keep writing and to make writing a lifelong learning experience," said Mercer's Larry Robinson.
The coordinator of the university's Macon...
Atlanta, GA-Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy's student chapter of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) was recently named a finalist in the NCPA Pruitt-Schutte Business Plan Competition. Only three finalist teams were selected from pharmacy schools nationwide to participate in a live competition, to be held at the NCPA Annual Convention in Boston, Mass., this fall.
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During the Memorial Day holiday, the World War II Memorial in the nation's capital was dedicated, commemorating the men and women who fought and made the ultimate sacrifice defending the nation. One man who didn't fight on the battlefield, but deserves recognition for his war efforts is Carl Vinson (pictured from top to bottom with: Sam Nunn, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson).
A Milledgeville, Ga., native who graduated from Mercer's Law School in 1902, Vinson is, according to biographer James F. Cook, "the patriarch of the armed forces." Without his efforts toward strengthening U.S. naval forces in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when America was more committed to disarmament and isolationism, World War II may have resulted in a much different scenario.
Cook and Mercer University Press teamed up to tell the...
ATLANTA—Beginning Aug. 31, Mercer University will offer a preparation course for the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). A program of Mercer's College of Continuing and Professional Studies, the GMAT preparation course will be offered on Tuesdays from 6 to...
Macon-Mercer University School of Medicine student Angel Boev of Macon was recently awarded an Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Student Research Fellowship for 2004. He is one of approximately 40 recipients nationally who is receiving the $3,000 award.
WHO: Henry and Spalding County 3rd through 5th grade students
WHAT: Students are participating in creative writing workshops as a part of the University's College for Kids program.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 20, through Friday, July 23. Daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Mercer University Henry County Regional Academic Center, 160 Henry Parkway in McDonough
BACKGROUND: Students in the program were nominated for this honor by their teachers based on the students' interest and talent in creative writing. One piece of each student's writing will be published in a hardback book that will be given to the participants and their school libraries in the fall. This is the second and final week of the summer enrichment program in Henry County.
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