MACON, Ga. - With plans moving from the drawing board to reality, renovations have started on Mercer's softball field, Sikes Field. Bleachers have been removed and work has started in earnest, as the fence had been taken down and the posts have been removed.
Photographs will be posted periodically so fans will be able to watch the progress of the field's renovation during the summer online Sikes Field Renovation.
WHO: 650 Gwinnett County 1st through 5th grade students
WHAT: Students are participating in creative writing workshops taught by Mercer University graduate students and alumni as a part of the University's College for Kids program.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 22, through Friday, July 25. Daily, 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Mercer University Cecil B. Day Campus 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta (Just off I-85, one exit inside of the perimeter)
BACKGROUND: Students in the program were nominated 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 third and final week of the summer enrichment program. Media interested in covering the...
The Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Inc. (SBLI) and Judge Homer Drake have pledged a gift to establish the SBLI/W. Homer Drake, Jr. Endowed Chair in Bankruptcy Law at Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law.
ATLANTA - Mercer University will hold the final four of its 10 commencements Saturday, May 19, on the University's Cecil B. Day Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta. The ceremonies will be held in the Sheffield Center.
MACON - Have you ever wondered why two siblings raised in the same family and under the same conditions can turn out so very differently? Or how emotional issues can factor into physical illness? Renowned researcher and physician Michael E. Kerr, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown Family Center, will speak on these and other topics at the Sixth Annual Armour Family Therapy Lecture Series, to be held May 16 and 17 at the Mercer University School of Medicine auditorium. The series is free and open to the public.
Published Wednesday, Aug. 23, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Kristina Torres -- Staff
Not to be outdone by headline-hoggers such as The Princeton Review --- which publishes popular college rankings spanning the best party schools to colleges with the most "Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging, clove-smoking vegetarians" --- a Boston-based expert released his own list Tuesday that pegged two of Georgia's own as, drum roll please, "Saviors of Our Cities."
How's that for a recruiting line?
Atlanta's Emory University and Mercer University in Macon are two of 25 urban institutions picked by Evan Dobelle, president of the New England Board of Higher Education, for having a major impact on the economic and social health of local communities.
Dobelle relies on indicators such as community initiatives, research, payroll and student enrollment, although he admits to some subjectivity in trying to measure the impact of so-called town-gown...
ATLANTA-Mercer University's chapter of the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Students in Pharmacy (APhA-ASP) recently received national honors for its community outreach efforts.
MACON - Daisy Hurst Floyd, dean of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law since 2004, has announced that she will step down as dean at the end of this academic year to become University Professor of Law and Ethical Formation.
MACON - Mercer alumnus Carl G. Fambro will be moving his restaurant, Francar's Buffalo Wings, to Mercer Village in January, adding another college-friendly business to the growing stable of student-friendly offerings across from the Macon campus. The business will relocate into a building in Mercer Village that includes the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios, between Montpelier and Coleman avenues. Renovation will begin in the next few weeks and the restaurant is expected to be open when students return from the Christmas break.
Macon and Atlanta- In conjunction with Mercer President R. Kirby Godsey's creation of a new task force on Civic Engagement, the Mercer Center for Community Development and University Commons are hosting a lecture for students, faculty and staff titled "Why Civic Engagement? Why Now?"
Rick Battistoni, Ph.D., a leader in the field of community service learning and a professor of political science at Providence College in Rhode Island, will give presentations on both the Atlanta and Macon campuses. He will speak at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 3, on the Atlanta campus in the Trustees Dining Room and at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 4, in Newton Chapel on the Macon campus. Battistoni will discuss ways professors and students can implement more service learning into the curriculum.
"Mercer has actively worked with the community for a long time," said Jean Fallis, Ph.D., volunteer coordinator for Mercer's University Commons. "The University now is focusing its attention on increasing...
