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MACON - The Wal-Mart Foundation, as part of its community outreach in Georgia, has awarded Mercer University a grant to develop summer seminars for high school teachers to learn how to incorporate the Great Books into their curricula. Through the grant, Mercer's Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations is developing a summer seminar program and Web site that will help the teachers to understand and teach the Great Books. The two-week seminars will be modeled after Mercer's Great Books program and be organized around the theme "Citizenship and the Culture of Freedom."
MACON- Mercer University's Political Science Department will host a free public debate on foreign policy Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 6 p.m. in the McCorkle Music Building, Neva Langley Fickling Hall.
This is part of a nationwide event called "The People Speak: America Debates Its Role in the World," in which thousands of debates will take place in hundreds of locations across the country between Oct. 5th and 18th. The goal of the program, funded by the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the United Nations Foundation, is to engage as many Americans as possible in discussions on foreign policy.
There will be two debates, one between Mercer political science faculty members, associate professor Eimad Houry, Ph.D., and assistant professor Gregory Domin, Ph.D. The other debate will be between Mercer honors students Ruth Beerman of Alpharetta and Matt Stone of Warner Robins. They will address such issues as the legitimate use of military force and...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - About two decades ago, Steve Boylan was hanging out at his Mercer University fraternity and eating late-night breakfast at Denny's on Riverside Drive.
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University will hold on Saturday, May 6, the first three of its 10 commencement ceremonies. The University's three health schools will graduate their students in separate ceremonies on their respective campuses in Macon and Atlanta. The remaining seven ceremonies will take place over the next two weeks.
The Southern School of Pharmacy will graduate 130 doctor of pharmacy and Ph.D. candidates at 9 a.m. at Mercer's Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus in Atlanta. Dr. Carmen A. Catizone, CEO and executive director/secretary of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, will be the keynote speaker. In this year's graduating Doctor of Pharmacy class, nine students have completed the exceptionally rigorous pharmacy program with a perfect 4.0 grade point average throughout their four years of study.
At noon, the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing will graduate 97 bachelor's and master's nursing degree candidates on the Atlanta campus....
LITHIA SPRINGS - Mercer University's Douglas County Regional Academic Center will hold a free information session beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 3, for prospective students considering applying for fall session, which begins Aug. 21. Adults interested in earning a bachelor's degree through the Center's evening and weekend programs are invited to the informational session to meet with academic advisors, professors and admissions counselors.
MACON - Phi Kappa Phi, one of the nation's most prestigious honor societies has awarded Mercer University graduate Samson Alva with a scholarship for post graduate study. Alva graduated magna cum laude May 13 from the College of Liberal Arts with degrees in physics, mathematics and economics and a minor in German. Annually, Phi Kappa Phi presents only 40 Award of Excellence scholarships and Alva was one of only three students in Georgia to receive the award.
Dr. Lynn W. Clemons, assistant professor of organization leadership and chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Sciences in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, has been chosen to participate in the prestigious Governor's Teaching Fellows 2009 Summer Symposium.
OGAN, Utah - A landmark season for the Mercer men's basketball team resulted in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament Championship, earned in a hard-fought 70-67 win at Utah State on Wednesday night. Mercer's victory secured the team's spot in history as the Atlantic Sun Conference's first team to capture a postseason crown. Junior Travis Smith booked a career-high 17 points in the win, while sophomore Langston Hall added 16. Sophomore Bud Thomas notched his second straight game in double figures with 10 points.
MACON - Amina S. Ali, the African Union's ambassador to the United States, will speak at Mercer University tonight. Her speech, titled "African Union Mission: Health and Education Programs for Africa," will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Peyton Anderson Auditorium in the Science and Engineering Building on Mercer's Macon campus, followed by a reception in Penfield Hall. The event, which begins at 7 p.m. is free and open to the public.
