MACON, Ga. - Despite three players finishing in double figures, the Mercer women's basketball team came up just short against Atlantic Sun foe Gardner-Webb. The Bulldogs led by as many as 13 in the second half and held on for the 77-74 win.
Shameka Smith put GWU on the scoreboard first with a jumper in the paint but the teams battled back and forth throughout the first half. The opening stanza featured seven ties and six lead changes as Gardner-Webb (10-14, 9-8 A-Sun) led 33-32 at the break.
Mercer (11-12, 8-8 A-Sun) made its first two field goals of the second half to take a 37-35 lead but hit a dry spell afterward. Gardner-Webb went on a 14-3 run over the next three minutes to build an 11-point lead.
"We weren't driving to the basket," said Mercer head coach Brenda Welch-Nichols. "We were penetrating around the cattle guards instead of through the cattle guards."
Down 12 with 3:37 left, the Bears started making a...
MACON-Renowned professional communicator Dr. Jean-luc "JL" Doumont will give a free seminar entitled "Making the Most of Your Presentation" at Mercer University's School of Engineering. His presentation will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18, in room 210 of the Engineering Building on the Macon Campus, just off I-75 and Mercer University Drive. The event is open to the public.
A guest of Mercer's Technical Communication Department faculty, Doumont is an engineer with a doctoral degree in applied physics from Stanford University. He has extensive experience in teaching engineers to write and speak effectively. The Belgium resident's visit is part of a South American-North American tour of universities and companies throughout January.
In his description of the seminar "Making the Most of Your Presentation," Doumont notes, "Effective oral presentation skills are a key to success for engineers, scientists and other professionals, all the more so in today's...
MACON, GA., - Mercer University professor Dr. Allen Lynch and University of North Florida professor Dr. Jay Coleman have discovered the method to March Madness.
MACON, Ga.- The Mercer men's basketball team rallied from an 11-point deficit but fell just short as Stetson held on for a 73-72 victory in Atlantic Sun Conference action Friday night at the University Center.
The Bears had an opportunity to pull out their second straight last-second win when Stetson's Kris Thomas missed two free throws with 6.7 seconds remaining and Mercer's Andrew Brown grabbed the rebound and raced toward the Bears' offensive end of the court. But Brown slipped, losing control of the basketball as he neared midcourt and time expired as players from both teams scrambled for the loose ball.
The Hatters' E.J. Gordon hit a layup with 1:16 remaining giving Stetson (7-17, 6-9 A-Sun) a 73-69 lead, but Brown answered with his second 3-pointer of the night, pulling the Bears to within one with just 49 seconds left in the contest.
In a first half that featured four ties and 10 lead changes, the Hatters used a 5-0 run to pull away from a...
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Teams of first-year students from the School of Engineering competed against each other on Feb. 6 and 7 to see which team could build the strongest bridge out of toothpicks as part of a class project teaching them the fundamentals of engineering design, management, and documentation.In all, more than 100 students in five sections of EGR 107 participated in a series of competitions to test the toothpick bridges, which are weighted down until they break, often after being loaded with as much as 50 pounds.Six Middle Georgia media outlets covered the events, for links to coverage see the bottom of the page. The students are enrolled in EGR 107 - Introduction to Engineering Design - have been designing and building their toothpick bridges over the past several weeks. The exercise is meant to prepare them for their final project, a competition in which students team to build vehicles out of kits and household goods that will compete against each other in a variety of events. That...
(MACON) - The 2004 Mercer Jazz Festival will be held Saturday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m., at The Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry St.
Tickets are $5 for the general public; admission is free with a Mercer ID.
Led by Monty Cole, director of Jazz Studies at Mercer, this year's concert will feature guest artist Brad Goode (pictured left), who was described as "lyrical genius of the trumpet...The young demon of bebop" by Larry Kart of The Chicago Tribune.
The Jazz Festival will kick off with a combo set of Cole on saxophone; Goode, trumpet; Bob Barnett, bass; Steve Schanin, drums and Jim McKillip, piano. The musicians will play a set list "in the spirit of a jam session."
Also on tap for the festival is a big band set with the Mercer Jazz Ensemble, featuring Goode on trumpet. Jazz enthusiasts and Grand Opera House patrons can expect to hear first-rate renditions of Rob McConnell's "Close Enough for Love," Drum Kern's "All the...
ATLANTA/MACON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will be the featured speaker at Mercer University's Executive Forum Presented by BB&T on Thursday, April 10. He will give a lunch presentation at in Atlanta at the Four Seasons Hotel, 75 Fourteenth Street, and a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. at The University Center on Mercer's Macon campus.
MACON - Mercer University will hold a special evening Chapel service on Thursday featuring a lecture by Mercer Chancellor R. Kirby Godsey on his new book, Is God a Christian? The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in Newton Hall on the University's Macon campus. The event is part of the University's fall chapel service series, which features a special emphasis in support of the new Universitywide Lyceum program and Mercer's participation in President Obama's national Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. The lecture is free and open to the public.
(This article was published Tuesday, March 6, 2007, in The Macon Telegraph.)VIDEO OF NEW BUILDING FROM THE MACON TELEGRAPHBy Jennifer BurkTELEGRAPH STAFF WRITERMercer University's new Science and Engineering Building has high-tech classrooms and high-tech laboratories and high-tech equipment.
