MACON - Mercer University School of Medicine is one of the best family medicine medical schools in the nation, according to the annual "Best Graduate Schools" rankings released April 1 by U.S.News & World Report. The School of Medicine is the only medical school in Georgia to be recognized in this category.
Atlanta- On Saturday, April 30, Mercer University will offer preparation workshops for the Praxis I exam on Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta, 3001 Mercer University Drive.
The workshop will focus on the verbal section of the exam and be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The cost is $90 per workshop for the general public and $75 per workshop for Mercer students, alumni, faculty and staff. Materials are included. Registration is required. For more information, contact Angie Macon at (678) 547-6501 or macon_am@mercer.edu.
The first step to becoming a teacher in Georgia is to take and pass the Praxis I exam. The Praxis I Math Workshop will review the most important concepts of arithmetic, algebra and geometry. In addition, this course will provide participants with all the latest tricks and tips for scoring their highest on this important exam.
The Praxis I Verbal Workshop is designed to give individuals hands-on practice at taking the reading and writing sections of the...
MACON - Department of Music professor Ian Altman, piano, will present a concert featuring works by Bach, Schumann, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Chopin and Liszt, as part of the Mercer Music Faculty Artist Series. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. April 5 in Neva Langley Fickling Hall of the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon campus. The event is free and open to the public. Call (478) 301-2748 for more information.
Founded in 1833, Mercer University has campuses in Macon and Atlanta as well as three regional academic centers. With 10 schools and colleges, the University offers programs in liberal arts, business, engineering, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law and theology. For 15 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has named Mercer University as one of the leading universities in the South.
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MACON-Former congressmen Jim Bilbray (D-NV) and Orval Hansen (R-ID) will visit Mercer University's Macon Campus April 11-12 as part of the Stennis Center for Public Policy's "Congress to Campus" program-which brings Congress members to institutions of higher education to discuss policy, citizenship and civic responsibility.
In addition to meeting with various classes and student and faculty groups, the former congressmen will give two community talks on the Macon campus: "The Importance of Serving Your Community" at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 11, in the Medical School Auditorium and "Citizenship, Service and Civic Duty" at 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday, April 12, in Newton Hall. The presentations are free of charge and open to the public. The former congressmen will be available for media interviews.
After serving in the Nevada State Senate for seven years, Bilbray served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995. He was on numerous committees, including the House Foreign...
(MACON) The musical comedy sensation Crazy For You will highlight numerous Gershwin classics when the national tour performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, at The Grand Opera House. Tickets are available through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at thegrand.mercer.edu. Tickets range from $35 to $40.
The audience will be swept up in an artfully constructed tale of boy meets girl in the Wild West, where romance, mistaken identities, ribald humor and show-stopping musical numbers add up to irresistible fun. Adapted from the 1930 Gershwin hit Girl Crazy, the show tells the hilarious romp of a stage-struck playboy in a Nevada mining town.
Crazy For You is filled with the glorious music of two of America's most prolific composer/lyricists, George and Ira Gershwin. The show uses seven great Gershwin songs from Girl Crazy and thirteen other Gershwin hits from Broadway shows like Treasure Girl, Oh! Kay, Show Girl and Ladies First and Hollywood films like...
Macon, Ga.- The CRCT, ITBS, High School Graduation Test and other benchmark and standardized tests are at the forefront of many students', teachers' and parents' minds this spring. Dr. Karen Michael, an assistant professor at Mercer University's Tift College of Education, says it is up to parents and teachers to improve their students' confidence in testing to increase their motivation to do well on these standardized tests that are becoming increasingly important in this age of educational accountability.
Below, Michael, who completed her dissertation on the fifth grade standardized writing test and served on a testing committed when she taught school in Gwinnett County, lists some strategies for students of all ages to employ while taking tests. Michael taught pre-K through eighth grade for eight years.
Reading Strategies1. Read the questions first, and then read the passage.2. Analyze the characters and the plot as you read. Try to make a connection to...
WHO: Sponsored by QuadWorks
WHO: Mercer University students and members of "We Care," "Weed and Seed" and the Macon Cemetery Preservation Corporation
WHAT: Will cut back the brush that has grown over gravestones in the Linwood Cemetery-a 13-acre cemetery without perpetual care and with only about three acres uncovered by vegetation.
WHEN: Saturday, March 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Linwood Cemetery on Walnut Street in the Pleasant Hill community
BACKGROUND:This is one of many community service projects in which Mercer students are involved. Announced this week, Mercer University is one of only two institutions in Georgia- along with Spelman College- featured in the forthcoming book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement, which will be available in bookstores on June 21. Last semester, in addition to helping remove brush from the gravestones, a group of students in the "First Year Seminar Experiential"...
MACON - A Mercer University School of Medicine faculty member is on the cutting edge of breast cancer and prostate cancer research. Dr. James L. Thomas, assistant professor of pharmacology in the Division of Basic Medical Sciences, received a $928,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine a new target protein for the treatment of breast and prostate cancer - research that could lead to the development of better treatments for the cancers.
