JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.- Using a balanced attack and a deep bench, the top-seeded Lipscomb Bisons ended the eighth-seeded Mercer Bears' basketball season by a 78-62 score Thursday afternoon in the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Tournament at East Tennessee's Memorial Center.
In Mercer's last appearance as the number eight seed, the Bears advanced to the semifinals of the 2000 conference tourney after upsetting top-seeded Troy in the quarterfinals, but no such magic occurred Thursday afternoon as the Bisons avoided an upset. Lipscomb's only other appearance in the A-Sun tournament was last season when the Bisons fell, 68-64, to Jacksonville.
"We knew coming in that our margin of error was slim," said Mercer head coach Mark Slonaker. "We wanted to play more zone but their outside shooting prevented that. Our turnovers in the first half and the first five minutes of the second half were the keys to the game."
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MACON - Mercer University's Tift College of Education will hold a free drop-in information session on Wednesday, May 13, for those interested in applying to its new Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction program. The event will be held at the Lee Alumni House, 1270 Ash St., on the Macon campus from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
MACON - Mercer University senior Hannah Vann will be awarded the Gulf-South Summit Award for Outstanding Student Contributions to Service-Learning in March at the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education in Athens. The Summit is the service-learning professional organization for the southeast region and includes schools such as Tulane University, Emory University and Mercer.
MACON - The Georgia Cancer Coalition has awarded one of its six research grants for 2010 to a member of the Mercer University School of Medicine faculty. The organization will provide $50,000 to Dr. Robert J. McKallip, an assistant professor of immunology in the Division of Basic Medical Sciences at the School of Medicine in Macon, to study therapies for treating malignant melanoma.
Two teams of Mercer students and faculty, funded by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will travel to Haiti on Thursday to help the victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake and lay the groundwork for future trips to help the country and its citizens recover from their wounds, both seen and unseen.
Macon--As Mercer gears up for 2004-2005, the University has many reasons for anticipating another exceptional academic year.
The University's reputation for excellence has reached the far corners of the country, with an approximately 725 new undergraduate students joining the Macon campus representing 28 different states, including Maine, Iowa and California. The University's international population is also growing, with freshmen joining the University from Ghana, Bolivia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Mexico and Sweden.
The new students bring to campus some impressive academic qualifications. The freshmen class has an estimated 1200 SAT average, including one student who achieved a perfect 1600, and an academic grade point average of 3.6. The School of Engineering touts the highest freshman SAT average, with its incoming students averaging a SAT score of 1214.
Approximately 135, or 19 percent, of the new undergraduate students are transfer students. Some of the...
Jordan J. Cohen, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, gave the commencement address for the the School of Medicine on May 7, at the Macon City Auditorium. Below is Cohen's address:
The class of 2005! Wow! Let me be among the first to congratulate you, not only for your marvelous academic achievement, which we're celebrating today, but also for the choice you made some time ago when your decided to spend your working life as a health care professional.
That choice, and the tangible symbol of academic success you will receive momentarily, have positioned you to contribute your talents to one of the most noble of human causes. Whether as a doctor, or as a public health professional, or as a family therapist, you will be positioned as few others are to advance the cause of human health.
Indeed, you will be armed with more powerful tools for doing your noble work than any generation...
(The following article was published Tuesday, April 2, 2007 in the Macon Telegraph.)By Jennifer Burkjburk@macontel.com
MACON, Ga. – The third annual Atlantic Sun Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) fundraising competition again shattered records as the combined efforts resulted in $21,966 raised for charities ranging from the American Cancer Society to local youth programs and local...
