MACON – The Jekyll Island Authority has approved a lease agreement to establish a Mercer Medicine rural health clinic in the island’s Beach Village commercial center.
Mercer Medicine Jekyll Island will operate in a 4,534-square-foot, second-floor space that was originally constructed...
MACON – Mercer University’s chapter of international organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) will host a lecture by Palestinian rights activist Dr. Donald E. Wagner on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m.
The free event is open to the public...
MACON – Mercer University School of Medicine Master of Family Therapy (MFT) student Aleeah Muhammad was recently selected for the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP-Y) offered by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
MACON – Mercer welcomed seven incoming freshmen this fall as part of the University’s 11th class of Stamps Scholars and the 19th class overall for the scholarship program’s 36 partner institutions located in the U.S. and United Kingdom.
Mercer’s newest...
MACON – Mercer University’s Engineering Honors Program and Tift College of Education will host their latest Go Baby Go build on Oct. 1 to modify battery-powered toy cars for children with limited mobility.
The build will take place from 10:30...
MACON – Dr. Melanie Benson Taylor, professor of English and Native American studies at Dartmouth College, will deliver three lectures on the theme “The Weird South” for Mercer University’s 65th annual Lamar Lecture Series, the most prominent lecture series...
MACON/SAVANNAH/COLUMBUS – Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) recently announced 12 new Nathan Deal Scholars for the 2022-23 academic year.
Scholars are selected based on their strong ties to rural Georgia, character, leadership qualities, community involvement and their likelihood of serving in...
MACON/ATLANTA – Mercer University’s Tift College of Education will partner with five local school districts on a three-year, $9.6 million U.S. Department of Education grant project aimed at strengthening the teacher pipeline in order to increase and diversify the teaching...
College of Education
Dr. Robert J. Helfenbein, professor of curriculum studies, received the 2022 Critics’ Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association for his book Critical Geographies of Education: Space, Place, and Curriculum Inquiry, published by Routledge.
Dr. Katherine...
MACON – The U.S. Department of State today recognized Mercer University as one of the nation’s colleges and universities that sent the most scholars abroad through the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program during the 2020-21 academic year.
Mercer had...
