ATLANTA -- Students interested in continuing their nursing education beyond a baccalaureate degree should attend the Graduate Tea at Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing. The program, to be held Wednesday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. until noon on Mercer's Atlanta campus, will address questions about the master's of science program in nursing.
Dr. Linda A. Streit, associate dean for the graduate program, will present the general curriculum plan for both areas of concentration (nursing education and acute/critical care of the adult). Meg McGinness, director for the Office of Student Financial Planning, will discuss financial aid available for graduate nursing students.
About Georgia Baptist College of Nursing:The founding of Georgia Baptist College of Nursing at Mercer University in 1902 was born out of a vision to establish a Baptist institution for the training of "Christian nurses" to "heal the needy sick." More than 100 years later, some 6,000 men...
ATLANTA - Mercer University will hold a free community health fair from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19, on the Cecil B. Day campus, 3001 Mercer University Dr., Atlanta. Services are being provided by Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, Mercer Health Systems, the School of Medicine, and the Southern School of Pharmacy.
MACON, Ga. - The University Center will be buzzing with basketball this weekend, as the Mercer women's basketball game scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 18, against Gardner-Webb has been moved from 2 p.m. to noon. The game time has been changed due to the GISA Class AAA State Basketball Tournament.
The girls' quarterfinals was held Friday night. The boys' quarterfinals will be Saturday, Feb. 18, with the first game slated for a 4 p.m. start.
MACON, Ga. - Former Mercer men's golfer Tom Abbott is working with the Golf Channel covering the Open Championship, being played at Carnoustie, Scotland.
MACON - With college football's national signing day looming, Mercer University economics professor Allen K. Lynch, Ph.D., and two colleagues have launched a Web site - http://ssbea.mercer.edu/recruiting.htm - featuring predictions for the college choices of the top 250 players who have yet to commit from this year's prep football recruiting class, according to Rivals.com. While Dr. Lynch is a sports fan, he's not a recruiting expert. However, the econometric model that the group has developed is. For those players on the list that have chosen a school, it is predicting at a greater than 75 percent rate.
A group of Mercer University students in the Mercer On Mission program are working to record their trip to Costa Rica on their own blog, http://merceronmissioncostarica.blogspot.com. They will be posting throughout their journey through the Central American country, which began July 7 and will end on July 25.
MACON - Christopher Gardner, whose life story served as the basis for the hit movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" featuring Will Smith, will speak Saturday on Mercer's Grand Opera House at 7 p.m.
WHO: Mercer University, The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
MACON - A Mercer On Mission project that provides low-cost prosthetics to amputees in developing countries has received two substantial grants this spring to help with those efforts. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance awarded Dr. Ha Van Vo, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, with a Sustainable Vision Grant of $37,275 to help him perfect his design and set up a prosthetic lab and clinic in Vietnam. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship awarded the University a $50,000 grant to replicate the Vietnam program in Haiti, where the 2010 earthquake left thousands of Haitians without limbs.
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics will bring its graduate business administration program to Savannah this fall. The new program, the Professional Master of Business Administration degree, will be Coastal Georgia's only executive-format MBA program.
"This new program will build on the strong ties the University already has with this dynamic community," said Dr. Roger C. Tutterow, dean of the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics. "Savannah is growing rapidly, and as companies expand and relocate to the area, they must have well-trained, visionary managers and executives. The Professional MBA program is designed to train those leaders."
The 16-month Professional MBA is aimed at business professionals with at least three years of experience who want to advance their careers to the leadership level in today's corporate world. Classes will be held on Friday afternoons and all day Saturday every three...
