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.
MCDONOUGH - Mercer University's Henry County Regional Academic Center will begin its second session of Fall Semester on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Adults interested in earning a bachelor's degree through the center's evening and weekend programs need to apply no later than Wednesday, Oct. 5.
Conveniently located off I-75 on Henry Parkway, Mercer's Henry County Center is designed specifically with an evening and weekend format for adult learners who want to begin or complete a bachelor's degree at one of the nation's top universities. Classes are held one evening per week or on Saturdays in eight-week sessions. Financial aid is available for students who attend half time or more.
Two of the University's 10 schools and colleges have undergraduate degree programs at the Henry County location and accept students for the second session. Tift College of Education provides initial certification in early childhood/special education and middle grades, as well as a bachelor of...
MACON - Mercer University will offer a continuing education workshop on psychopharmacology from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2, at the Woodruff House, 981 Bond Street. The workshop, entitled "A Multidisciplinary Approach: Evolving Insights from Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology for the Helping Professional," is co-sponsored by the Middle Georgia Psychological Association. The event is co-sponsored and hosted by the Department of Counseling and Human Sciences of Mercer's College of Continuing and Professional Studies.
MACON - Jessica Walden has been named director of communications and outreach for the College Hill Alliance, effective Sept. 14. Walden is currently director of communications for Imedia Group, where she edits, writes and coordinates two of the company's community-based business publications, address Macon and Houston County Magazine.
MACON - The 2011 Mercer Law Review Symposium on Friday will focus on "Citizenship and Civility in a Divided Democracy: Political, Religious and Legal Concerns" as part of the University-wide Mercer Lyceum. The symposium will feature internationally renowned experts on political, legal and religious issues and will take place in the moot courtroom of Mercer Law School from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
MACON - Students and faculty from Mercer University Opera have teamed up with Stone Academy at the Booker T. Washington Center, artist Wini McQueen and dance choreographer Pilar Wilder, to produce "A Muskrat Lullaby," a children's opera. Students and alumni from Mercer, joined by Stone Academy students, will give four performances on two stages Oct. 18-21. The performances are the result of a partnership between Mercer University and the Macon Arts Alliance's education program, the Douglass Theatre and Georgia Department of Children and Families and the Central Georgia Opera Guild. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information call (478) 301-5751.
Mercer alumna Cheryl Horn of Chattanooga, Tenn., recently received a third place prize for a paper and poster she submitted at the national convention of the Air and Waste Management Association (A&WMA).
Horn, who graduated from Mercer in December 2002 with a degree in environmental engineering, won the prize for a paper on air quality in Atlanta she submitted at the A&WMA convention in San Diego.
The project was the result of an independent study course she took with Mercer's Dr. Andre Butler, an assistant professor in environmental engineering.
With an estimated 50 entries from environmental engineering students across the country, the contest was extremely competitive, according to Butler, who accompanied Horn at the convention.
"This says a lot about Horn as a student," he said. "She has excellent training in both laboratory work and research. She knew what she was talking about at the convention and impressed the judges."
Horn is the daughter of Donna...
WHO: Mercer University, The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
ATLANTA - Mercer University is offering a new twist to its Master of Business Administration degree: day classes. Mercer's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics has long offered its Flexible MBA in the evenings on the University's Atlanta campus; now it will offer an accelerated MBA program during the day. This accelerated program will afford qualified individuals the opportunity to earn an MBA from an internationally accredited business school in just one year.
