Mercer University’s Penfield College and the Department of Counseling and Human Sciences, in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Narrative, recently completed a fifth annual study abroad experience in Leiden, Holland and Paris, France.
A look at Mercer University's Move-In Day 2013 on social media via Storify.
MACON - Mercer University will host a national conference on human trafficking, titled "STOP Sex Trafficking: A Call to End 21st Century Slavery," on March 19-20 in Willingham Auditorium on Mercer's Macon campus. The conference is organized by Mercer students in STOP, the Sex Trafficking Opposition Project, to counter the growing worldwide crisis. According to the U.S. State Department, more than a million women and children are trafficked into sex slavery each year. Nearly 20,000 are trafficked annually into the United States and many of these victims are trafficked into the Southeast.
MACON - Mercer University's School of Engineering will welcome students and faculty from eight engineering schools around the country to its first Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network Regional Conference on Thursday and Friday. Mercer Chancellor R. Kirby Godsey will deliver the keynote address at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the Peyton Anderson Auditorium in Mercer's Science and Engineering Building. The University first became part of the network in 2007.
MACON - Mercer University students have launched an initiative on the Macon campus to contribute 10,000 hours of service focusing on poverty alleviation or poverty prevention within Macon. The initiative, Local Engagement Against Poverty, is part of a commitment several Mercer Service Scholars made at a Clinton Global Initiative University conference last year. The students are also leading a conference to help inspire fellow students. The conference begins today with a slate of showings of the play, "Nickel and Dimed," and will run throughout the week of March 20-26, concluding with a Service Day on March 26.
The College Hill Alliance received a Gold Excellence in Economic Development Award recognizing the efforts to recruit and retain businesses and foster neighborhood revitalization in Macon's College Hill Corridor.
The new season at The Grand Opera House, Mercer's premier performing arts center, begins with a trio of diverse music events. The Royal Drummers and Dancers of Burundi inspired the World Music and Dance Festival and have toured internationally for more than five decades, bringing the dance, music and culture of their Central African homeland to life, thrilling audiences of all ages. They take the historic stage at The Grand for the inaugural event of the season on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Susan Codone, associate professor of technical communication in the Mercer University School of Engineering, has been selected as a Governor’s Teaching Fellow, a highly selective program sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education and the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia.
The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Southeastern Regional Conference was hosted by Mercer University, March 30-April 1.Over 190 people attended the conference, representing...
MACON - The National Science Foundation has awarded Mercer University $174,574 to help it advance undergraduate research in chemistry. The grant will pay for equipment and provide funds for six students to work as researchers using a "studio lab" approach over the next two summers. The grant will also pay for Mercer professors and students to present their research at regional and national conferences and for the professors to expand the learning approach to other top-flight undergraduate chemistry programs.
