Macon - Nine of the nation's leading legal and business authorities will participate in the annual Law Review Symposium hosted by Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law, 1021 Georgia Ave., Macon, on Oct. 17. The symposium will be held in the Moot Court Room and is free and open to the public. For more information contact Yonna Shaw at (478) 301-2622
WHO: Peter W. Milonni, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Georgia's oldest college of nursing is gearing up for a festive weekend to commemorate its 100th anniversary this year.
Georgia's oldest college of nursing is gearing up for a festive weekend to commemorate its 100th anniversary this year.
WHO: Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University
WHAT: Building Dedication Ceremony
WHEN: 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 12
WHERE: Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University building, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta (just off I-85 inside the northeast perimeter)
WHY: Part of the Centennial Celebration weekend activities for the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, the 60,000-square-foot, three-story building will be dedicated by Mercer University President R. Kirby Godsey.
The state-of-the-art nursing education building represents the finest in teaching technology - quite...
WHO: Diane McWhorter, author of "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution."
WHAT: McWhorter will give the National Endowment for the Humanities lecture titled "Images of America, Civil Rights and Wrongs: Birmingham, Alabama 1963." The event is free and open to the public.
WHEN: 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 9
WHERE: Willingham Hall, Mercer's Macon campus, 1400 Coleman Ave.
WHY: McWhorter won six awards for nonfiction writing including the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, for book on Birmingham and the Civil Rights movement. McWhorter's lecture will be preceded by a viewing of...
This Week at Mercer University
Sept. 30 - Oct. 4
This is the weekly installment of story ideas and news items from Mercer University. For more information on these or other stories, please contact Lance Wallace at (800) 837-2911 or (478) 301-4037 or send an e-mail to wallace_le@mercer.edu.
What's Coming Up:
o Nursing Education Transformed from Apprenticeship to Academic Model
o Mercer to Host Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Endowment for the Humanities Lecture on Civil Rights
o Just How Fast is Light?
o What Women Preachers Need to Hear
o As Schools Shrink Arts Education Budgets, Mercer's GrandKids Program...
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WHO: Beverly Bowden Pickard, artist and retired faculty member of Mercer University School of Medicine.
WHAT: "Paintings and Prints" art exhibition opening reception
WHEN: 5 - 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 4
WHERE: Lobby, Mercer University School of Medicine, 1550 College St., Macon
WHY: Retired faculty member and Mercer alumna Beverly Bowden Pickard is exhibiting paintings and prints in celebration of the Medical School's 20th anniversary. Pickard received her Master of Liberal Studies degree in marriage and family therapy from Mercer and joined the faculty of the Medical School in 1982...
MACON, Ga. - With the help of a $50,000 donation from Brown & Williamson Tobacco and the promise of an additional 120 mentors, provided by Mercer University, Big Brothers Big Sisters will be able to grow and sustain its First Mentors program for more than 550 at-risk youth in the Central Georgia area.
For more than 40 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has been helping children in Central Georgia stay in school with its one-to-one mentoring program. "Currently the program matches 408 children with mentors throughout our five county service area," said Dianna Glymph, Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters. "The continued generosity of Brown & Williamson Tobacco enables us to expand the reach of our program to involve a minimum of 100 new college mentors in 2002."
Students from six area colleges and universities led by Mercer University will participate as mentors in the program. Once students are screened and trained by the Big Brothers Big Sisters...
