David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at the McAfee School of Theology, will appear this Sunday morning at 11 a.m. on Wolf Blitzer's Late Edition talk show on CNN. Gushee will discuss the Compassion Forum event that will occur later on Sunday at Messiah College. Gushee serves on the Compassion Forum board that organized the event, which is a presidential candidate discussion on faith, values and policy and will involve the three major presidential candidates.The forum itself will be televised live on CNN at 8 p.m. This is Gushee's second national TV appearance in two weeks. He appeared on C Span on Easter Sunday.To find out more about the Compassion Forum, go to http://www.messiah.edu/compassion_forum/media/announcement.html
MACON - Mercer University will welcome freshmen to the Macon campus on Saturday and will open its school year on Monday with its traditional fall convocation. In between, the school will attempt to set a world record for the largest game of tag. The festivities begin with Move-In Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the game of tag will begin at 8:30 p.m. on Porter Patch.
MACON - The Princeton Review has named Mercer University as one of the nation's best value undergraduate institutions. Mercer is featured in the 2008 edition of "America's Best Value Colleges," released today. The guide profiles 165 colleges chosen for their excellent academics, generous financial aid packages and/or relatively low costs of attendance. Mercer was one of only 75 private institutions to be named a "Best Value."
ATLANTA-Mercer University's chapter of the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Students in Pharmacy (APhA-ASP) recently received national honors for its community outreach efforts.
JACKSONVILE, Fla.- Andrew Brown and Ross Alacqua combined for five points inside the final 36 seconds of overtime as the Mercer men's basketball team opened its final road swing of the season with a 93-90 overtime decision past Jacksonville University Friday night in Atlantic Sun Conference action at Swisher Gymnasium. The Bears struggled to get untracked offensively in the early going, missing shots or committing turnovers in three of its first four possessions, as Jacksonville (1-24, 1-17 A-Sun) sprinted out to an 8-2 lead on the strength of a pair of 3-pointers by seniors Antonio Cool and Aubrey Conerly, sandwiched around a basket by Mario Brown.
Andrew Brown's running jumper in the lane pulled Mercer (8-16, 6-11 A-Sun) back to within one, at 8-7, with 16 minutes remaining in the opening half. His 3-pointer knotted the score at 10 apiece and sophomore Brian Pfohl's post-up bucket gave the Bears their first lead, at 12-10.
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Mercer University Press had a banner night at the 47th annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards banquet, with three of its authors taking top awards and another receiving a lifetime achievement award. The program was held June 11 at the Kennesaw State University Center.
KENNESAW - Two Mercer University Press authors won awards in their respective categories at the 46th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards, presented by the Georgia Writers Association at a ceremony held at Kennesaw State University Center on June 19. Mercer business and law professor James L. Hunt won the award for creative nonfiction - biography and Philip Lee Williams won the award for fiction.
The Grand Opera House in downtown Macon will get close to $1 million in renovations this summer as the stage is replaced, the mid-level balcony gets an air-conditioning upgrade and other work is done.
ATLANTA - Tavia Freshour, of Smyrna, a full-time student at Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics on the Atlanta campus, was recently awarded the Georgia Executive Women's Network Leader of Tomorrow scholarship.
MACON - Four Mercer University seniors saw their yearlong effort to develop a plan for a "college town" corridor connecting the University with downtown Macon take a major step forward Friday. Macon Mayor Jack Ellis announced the creation of the College Hill Corridor Commission to implement the students' plan for the development of the corridor, which was part of two service-learning courses at Mercer.
