MACON - Three Mercer University students were recently selected to play at Carnegie Hall as members of the 2003 National Wind Ensemble.
Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a 7,300-student, comprehensive, Baptist-affiliated university, offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in the liberal arts, education, engineering, business and economics, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, theology and law.
Macon - More than 200 students from 33 high schools throughout Georgia competed in the Mercer University High School Mathematics Tournament Nov. 9 in Macon. Following the competition, Mercer faculty members presented the following awards:
MACON -- One of the National Basketball Association's most respected front office executives, Pete Babcock of the Atlanta Hawks will be the featured speaker at the Nov. 19th Executive Forum of Mercer University. The breakfast presentation will begin at 7:30 a.m. in the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in Macon.
Macon, GA - In a collaboration that spans the continent, researchers have found that pluripotent stem cells isolated from adult muscle can be induced to become cells specific to nervous tissue, both nerve cells and the supporting tissue called neuroglia. Their findings, published in the Sept. 15 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Research, open doors for patients with neurological disorders, who, in the future, may be able to use their own reserve pluripotent stem cells to grow new nerve cells and neuroglia.
The research team consists of Dr. Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Dr. Marina Romero-Ramos and Dr. Patrick Vourc'h of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in collaboration with Dr. Henry E. Young of Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Ga., Dr. Paul A. Lucas, formerly of Mercer and now with New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y., and scientists at MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals Inc. in San Diego, Calif.
Mercer researchers, Young and Lucas, led the field in...
The luncheon benefits Mercer University Press. Bob and Ruth West Wells of Atlanta are co-chairs of the host committee. Mercer alumnus, King & Spalding attorney and author Robert L. Steed will serve as master of ceremonies. Ticket prices are $125 per person, and tables of 10 are available for $1,250. For tickets and information, call Terri Massey at (678) 547-6400, (800) 837-2911 or (478) 301-2943.
Macon, GA - State Rep. Mickey Channell of Greensboro has been named to the Board of Governors of Mercer University School of Medicine. In this role, he will work with other Board members to provide guidance and advice to administrators of the School of Medicine regarding medical education and the health care needs of Georgians.
Gorgia's oldest nursing education program, Georgia Baptist College of Nursing was founded as the Tabernacle Infirmary and Training School for Nurses in 1902 by Dr. Len G. Broughton, a Baptist minister and physician. The inaugural class had four graduates.
Macon, GA - When Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth on Friday, Oct. 18, a Mercer University researcher will be on hand to greet them. Peter N. Uchakin, Ph.D., is leading a study of the effects space flight stress has on the immune system.
His job on Friday will be to collect blood samples from Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Ph.D, a first-time shuttle flier when Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted-off from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 7.
"Space flight generates stress, not only emotional stress, but physical stress," said Uchakin. "Launch and landing accelerations, microgravity and psychological factors all play a role in producing stress on the body. Each of these factors can affect the immune systems of crewmembers and have a negative impact on their well-being."
The study is an international collaboration between Mercer University, NASA and the Institute for Biomedical Problems, based in Moscow.
In their investigation, the researchers are...
Leading Old Testament scholar, Tony Cartledge, Ph.D., will speak on I and II Samuel at the 2002 Annual Bible Conference sponsored by Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 28, on Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta, then repeated on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at the Religious Life Center on the Mercer campus, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon. Registration is $25 per person, which includes lunch. Call (678) 547-6470 to register.
President and editor of The Biblical Recorder, North Carolina's Baptist newspaper, Cartledge writes a weekly opinion and devotional column. Among his numerous writings, he is author of the Smyth & Helwys Bible commentary on I and II Samuel and of Vows in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East. He is also published frequently by Baptist Press, Associated Baptist Press and Baptists Today.
During his career, he has taught or...
