Match Day 2007 was held Thursday, March 15, 2007 at the Mercer School of Medicine Auditorium. Sixty-three soon-to-be Medical School graduates learned where they will serve their residencies following graduation from Mercer. For coverage of the event, click here: 13-WMAZ, Fox 24.
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MACON--Mercer University is now participating in the Independent 529 Plan, a prepaid tuition plan that enables students to lock in future tuition costs at less than today's prices. Through the Plan, certificates are purchased that can be used to pay future tuition costs. When the student is later accepted at a member college, the certificate can be used to pay the percentage of tuition that was pre-purchased. Independent 529 Plan is the first 529 plan sponsored by private ("independent") colleges, and Program certificates can be redeemed for tuition at a broad array of independent colleges nationwide.
MACON - Mercer University announces the appointment of Michael Steven Leonard, Ph.D., as senior associate dean of the School of Engineering, effective June 1.
In this new role, Leonard will work closely with Mercer School of Engineering Dean Dayne Aldridge to provide general oversight of the School of Engineering and represent the School to internal and external constituencies. He will be responsible for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Program and the Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management Program. He also will assist with the Center for Excellence in Engineering Education and the various activities required for maintaining accreditation.
"Mercer is very fortunate to have a person with Dr. Leonard's accomplishments and experience to assist in leading the School of Engineering," Aldridge said of Leonard's appointment.
Leonard earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Florida. He began his career at 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...
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University's Executive Forum, presented by BB&T, will feature Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board, Thursday, Feb. 17, in Atlanta and Macon. He will give a lunch presentation at the Capital City Club at 12:30 p.m. and a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center on Mercer's Macon campus.
The excitement of the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta will kick off early Friday morning and nearly 50 Mercer students will be on hand to join in the excitement. The Georgia Dome is the host site Saturday and Monday for the NCAA basketball finals and CBS is the network originating coverage for the Final Four.
MACON - Mercer University's Fall Chapel services on the Macon campus will have a special emphasis this year in support of the new Universitywide Lyceum program and Mercer's participation in President Obama's national Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.
MACON - Wahaj Khan, a 2011 graduate of Macon's Central High School, has been named the first recipient of a new endowed scholarship created at Mercer University and funded by former Mercer trustee, alumnus and Macon businessman Benjamin W. (Benjy) Griffith III. Griffith has pledged $2.5 million to endow the Griffith Scholars program. This program will enable academically gifted graduates from Bibb County high schools with demonstrated financial need to obtain the premier education available at Mercer.
(MACON) The musical comedy sensation Crazy For You will highlight numerous Gershwin classics when the national tour performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, at The Grand Opera House. Tickets are available through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at thegrand.mercer.edu. Tickets range from $35 to $40.
The audience will be swept up in an artfully constructed tale of boy meets girl in the Wild West, where romance, mistaken identities, ribald humor and show-stopping musical numbers add up to irresistible fun. Adapted from the 1930 Gershwin hit Girl Crazy, the show tells the hilarious romp of a stage-struck playboy in a Nevada mining town.
Crazy For You is filled with the glorious music of two of America's most prolific composer/lyricists, George and Ira Gershwin. The show uses seven great Gershwin songs from Girl Crazy and thirteen other Gershwin hits from Broadway shows like Treasure Girl, Oh! Kay, Show Girl and Ladies First and Hollywood films like...
ATLANTA - Mercer President William D. Underwood and College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Dean H.W. "Ted" Matthews have announced the establishment of the T.P. Haines Endowed Chair in Transdermal Delivery Systems; Dr. Ajay K. Banga, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is the inaugural holder of the endowed position.
