Mercer Law School is pleased to welcomeZack Buck as the newest member of the faculty. Professor Buck specializes in health law and his scholarship focuses on the process-based legitimacy of governmental enforcement of laws and rules affecting health and...
MACON —Following a national search, Mercer University Provost Dr. D. Scott Davis today announced that Dr. Arber Winn from Clark Atlanta University has been appointed director of Access and Accommodation, effective April 15.
“We are both excited and pleased to...
When Alicia Kee applied to Mercer University, she had no idea she would be chosen to receive one of its highest scholarship honors, the Bessie Willingham Tift Fellowship.
MACON - Dr. Paul Seale, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine and a physician at the Medical Center of Central Georgia, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to train primary care faculty and medical residents in alcohol screening and intervention. The project, which will train 430 physicians in Georgia and Texas over the next two years, will build on the successful pilot program conducted at the Family Health Center, a Medical Center of Central Georgia facility that serves as the primary training site for Mercer's family medicine residency program.
MACON - Everyone is ready to exercise outside during the spring and summer months, but staff at Mercer University's Wellness Program say extra precautions need to be taken before heading out the door.
ATLANTA - Susan S. Gunby, dean of Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University, was the first Georgian to ever be recognized with the National Student Nurses' Association's (NSNA) Leader of Leaders award at the group's annual convention in Baltimore last spring. Winners of this award, which is only given once annually, must provide motivation and generate enthusiasm for NSNA involvement and for the nursing profession, exhibit and teach professionalism, and encourage students to continue their education and professional involvement after graduation.
MACON/ATLANTA - More than 1,500 students will participate in graduation ceremonies on Mercer University's Macon and Atlanta campuses in May. Mercer President William D. Underwood will confer bachelors', masters' and doctoral degrees during 10 commencements, and graduates will hear from an array of renowned speakers, including three prominent Mercerians. Among those speaking will be national television legal analyst Nancy Grace and renowned economist Arthur B. Laffer Sr. Mercer alumna and trustee Grace, host of Headline News' popular legal analysis program "Nancy Grace," will give the keynote address at the May 10 commencement, which includes the University's five undergraduate schools and colleges in Macon. Grace is a 1981 graduate of Mercer's College of Liberal Arts and 1984 graduate of the Walter F. George School of Law. Widely known as the "father of supply-side economics," Arthur B. Laffer Sr. will be the featured speaker at the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics...
Statement from Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and President of Evangelicals for Human Rights:
MACON - Mercer University's Board of Trustees will meet in Macon on Friday for its annual Homecoming meeting. The Board will name 10 new members during the meeting, including Barbara (Babs) Baugh, president of the Baugh Family Foundation, San Antonio, Texas; Neville Callam, general secretary, Baptist World Alliance, Falls Church, Va.; James Earl Carter Jr., 39th president of the United States, Plains; Holly McCorkle Jones, attorney and civic leader, Jacksonville, Fla.; Lt. Gen. (retired) Claude M. Kicklighter, former Pentagon inspector general, McLean, Va.; Thomas W. Malone, Atlanta attorney; M. Diane Owens, Atlanta attorney; Miller Peterson (Pete) Robinson, chairman of Troutman Sanders Strategies, Columbus; Raymond M. (Thad) Warren III, chairman and CEO, Warren Environment Inc., Atlanta; and Jerry S. Wilson Jr., former senior vice president and chief customer and commercial officer for the Coca-Cola Company. Jones, Kicklighter, Malone, Owens, Robinson, Warren and Wilson are Mercer...
