WHO: Mercer University's new undergraduate students.
WHAT: 725 new freshmen and transfer students will go "into the streets" to serve the Macon community as part of their orientation to college life at the University. Students will give an afternoon of service to a number of non-profit and community organizations.
WHEN: From 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 16
WHERE: In partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mercer students will perform innovative literacy projects with third graders at King Elementary School, 1307 Shurling Dr. in Macon.
Mercer students will assist with the senior Olympics at Carlyle Place, 5300 Zebulon Rd. in Macon.
Mercer students will sort books, clothing and computers at Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia, 2171 Eisenhower Parkway in Macon.
Other sites where students will be serving include: BeaconPointe, Bolingreen Nursing Center, Boys and Girls Club (at Burghard...
WHO: The entering first-year class of Mercer University's Southern School of Pharmacy
WHAT: Will participate in the Southern School of Pharmacy's White Coat Ceremony. They will be "cloaked" in their first white coat that symbolizes their commitment to the pharmacy profession. Dr. Judy L. Gardner, a 1987 graduate of the School of Pharmacy and a newly appointment member of Georgia's Board of Pharmacy, will deliver the keynote address to the students, their family members and friends. Dr. Gardner is director of Pharmaceutical Services at Northside Hospital.
WHEN: 2 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004
WHERE: Sheffield Student Center, Mercer University, Cecil B. Day Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta (One exit inside the northeast interchange of I-285)
WHY: Through the White Coat Ceremony, first-year pharmacy students gain a sense of the School's core values that focus on professionalism, respect, integrity and caring....
WHO: Sixty students entering Mercer University School of Medicine.
WHAT: Will participate in the School of Medicine's White Coat Ceremony, where they will be "cloaked" in their first white coat and get their first lesson in compassion. Dr. Richard Elliot, a professor in the School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, will deliver the keynote address to the students, their family members and friends.
WHEN: Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004 at 3 p.m.
WHERE: The Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia
WHY: Although compassion has always played a significant role in patient care, it has traditionally not been a formal part of medical school curriculum. Through the White Coat Ceremony, Mercer School of Medicine helps to clarify for the incoming students the true meaning of humanism in medicine - that as physicians they should strive not only to cure their patients, but also to care for them. In...
WHO: Vice presidents, deans, faculty and staff will don tennis shoes and t-shirts to help first-year students move into their residence halls.
WHAT: Freshmen will move into their dorm rooms and begin their college careers.
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 14
WHERE: Mercer's Macon campus, 1400 Coleman Ave.
WHY: An annual event anticipated by the University and Macon communities, Mercer move-in day promises to be a touching and emotional time in the life of new Mercer students who officially begin their college experience on Saturday. As part of Mercer's tradition of personal attention and service, faculty and staff will be on hand to help the first-year students move into the residence halls on Saturday before they begin their fall orientation that afternoon.
Media interested in covering the event should contact Jenny Butkus at (478) 301-4037 or on Saturday via cell phone at (478)...
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...
