The second annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Summer Faculty Institute was held May 12-16 on the Macon campus. Eleven faculty members from schools and colleges across the university were selected for participation in the program which focused on engaging students more actively in learning through integration of the most advanced technology into course experience. Areas of focus for this year's institute included the incorporation of new media into course components in order to deepen student learning and understanding; digital storytelling; use of Web CT to engage students in the learning process; experimental instruction with IPODS; Fair Use; Cognition and Technology; and Assessment of Learning with Technology. The institute is sponsored each year by the Mercer Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Provost DuBose. Most institute sessions were held in the University's new Media and Learning Technologies Studio (MaLT) and the new Teaching with Technology Clasroom...
WHO: Three Mercer School of Medicine students: Toby Eugene Foster of Fairmont, Bruce Curtiss Gilbert of Madison, and Christopher David Sutton of Cedartown   WHAT: Medical students will be commissioned as U.S. Army captains Friday before receiving their doctor of medicine degrees Saturday.   WHEN: Friday, May 30 at 10 a.m.   WHERE: Mercer University School of Medicine Auditorium   WHY: The students attended Mercer School of Medicine on the Army Healthcare Professional Scholarship. Two of the students will serve their residencies at U.S. Army bases in the Medical Services Corps. The third student will complete his residency at EmoryMedia interested in covering the event should contact Jenny Butkus at (478) 301-4037 or (478) 731-3668. -30-
The annual Big Auction, to benefit the Mercer Athletic Department, will be held Thursday at the Grand Opera House. Silent auction begins at 12 noon and closes at 7 p.m. The live auction will begin at 7:30 p.m. There is no admission charge, and food will be provided by Steak 'n Shake. For a complete list of silent items, live items, sports memorabilia and balloon items, go to Big Auction.
Jennifer Cole has made her mark on Mercer University.
MACON, Ga.--Mercer University College of Liberal Arts students Chiquita Jones and Dominica Purter will travel to the University of Tennessee this summer as recipients of the prestigious Ronald McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program Award.
ATLANTA- Lithia Springs resident Lynn Clemons was recently appointed director of the Organization Leadership Program for Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies.   Clemons has worked for Mercer for eight years, serving as a professor, mentor and coordinator of the University's Regional Academic Center in Douglas County.   The Organization Leadership Program is a degree completion program established by Mercer in 2000. To enroll in the program, students must have at least four years of work experience and 60 hours of previous college experience. As the program is designed for working adults, classes are held each Saturday for 16 months at Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta and the Regional Academic Center in Douglas County. The program will also be offered at Mercer's new Henry County Center when it opens in August.   Clemons is excited about this chance to work in adult education, a field very close to her heart. The Douglas County...
MACON-Locust Grove resident Leah Falls has had far from the "typical" college experience. After deferring her education for more than a decade, Falls decided to attend Mercer University to earn her bachelor of arts in education degree.   And this was no small task. While carrying a full course load at Mercer, Falls cared for four children, regularly traveled 50 miles from her Locust Grove home to the University and helped her husband recover from an injury and unemployment.   On May 11, the 39-year-old mother of four realized a dream when she earned her bachelor of arts degree in education from Mercer University. "I thought this day would never come," she said standing in the Macon Coliseum in her cap and gown.   After completing a semester at Gordon College more than a decade ago, Falls put her education on hold to care for her children.  Then when she decided to return to college to get her degree in education from Mercer University, she went at it full...
ATLANTA-Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University student Curlissa Pauldo Mapp, R.N., recently was awarded the prestigious Ethnic Minority Masters Scholarship from the Oncology Nursing Society Foundation.
Tallying close to 50 cadets, Mercer University's Army ROTC Program is small compared with other university ROTC units, which often have as many as 200 cadets. But size isn't everything. Mercer ROTC students are making big entrances into the military world.
ATLANTA-Gwinnett County resident Christy Perrin Karnbach, Pharm.D., received the prestigious Reuben C. Hood Award at the Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy commencement ceremony May 3. The Hood Award is the highest scholastic award given by the School of Pharmacy and recognized superior academic achievement.

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