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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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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