Thanks to the previous success of an HIV prevention program developed in a rural Georgia school system, Mike Smith, Ph.D., has been tapped by the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to lead in the development of a similar program for Native American youth in the western U.S. Dr. Smith, Director of AIDS Education and Research at the Mercer School of Medicine, said the original program, called STAND -- Students Together Against Negative Decisions -- was created at the request of medical and educational leaders in a Middle Georgia county following a syphilis outbreak in the early 1990s. Since then, STAND has been implemented in a number of Georgia counties, including Bibb County, in both in-school, after-school and community settings.
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University will hold on Saturday, May 6, the first three of its 10 commencement ceremonies. The University's three health schools will graduate their students in separate ceremonies on their respective campuses in Macon and Atlanta. The remaining seven ceremonies will take place over the next two weeks.
The Southern School of Pharmacy will graduate 130 doctor of pharmacy and Ph.D. candidates at 9 a.m. at Mercer's Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus in Atlanta. Dr. Carmen A. Catizone, CEO and executive director/secretary of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, will be the keynote speaker. In this year's graduating Doctor of Pharmacy class, nine students have completed the exceptionally rigorous pharmacy program with a perfect 4.0 grade point average throughout their four years of study.
At noon, the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing will graduate 97 bachelor's and master's nursing degree candidates on the Atlanta campus....
MACON - Christopher Gardner, whose life story served as the basis for the hit movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" featuring Will Smith, will speak Saturday on Mercer's Grand Opera House at 7 p.m.
Former Mercer University trustees Nancy Grace and Cathy Callaway Adams were honored as YWCA "Women of Achievement" during a May 19 luncheon in Atlanta.Grace, who earned her undergraduate and law degrees from Mercer, was honored as the organization's 2010 "Woman of Achievement," and Adams, a graduate of Tift College, was named as one of 10 members of the 2010 Academy of Women Achievers. Both women recently completed five-year terms on the Mercer Board of Trustees.For more than 25 years, the YWCA has honored Atlanta's premier female role models through the Academy of Women Achievers. Each year, 10 women are nominated by their peers into the Academy and are recognized at the annual Salute to Women of Achievement luncheon in May. These women represent what every young girl hopes she can and will become with opportunity and support. The Academy of Women Achievers is the first major program to recognize the professional and civic accomplishments of Atlanta's women. Members of the Academy...
WHO: Mercer University, The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics will bring its graduate business administration program to Savannah this fall. The new program, the Professional Master of Business Administration degree, will be Coastal Georgia's only executive-format MBA program.
"This new program will build on the strong ties the University already has with this dynamic community," said Dr. Roger C. Tutterow, dean of the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics. "Savannah is growing rapidly, and as companies expand and relocate to the area, they must have well-trained, visionary managers and executives. The Professional MBA program is designed to train those leaders."
The 16-month Professional MBA is aimed at business professionals with at least three years of experience who want to advance their careers to the leadership level in today's corporate world. Classes will be held on Friday afternoons and all day Saturday every three...
MACON - A Mercer University School of Medicine faculty member is on the cutting edge of breast cancer and prostate cancer research. Dr. James L. Thomas, assistant professor of pharmacology in the Division of Basic Medical Sciences, received a $928,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine a new target protein for the treatment of breast and prostate cancer - research that could lead to the development of better treatments for the cancers.
McDONOUGH - Beginning this fall, Mercer University's James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology will offer three of the core courses for its master's programs at the Henry County Regional Academic Center. In addition, students can also take two courses online as well - one in the fall and one in the spring - allowing them to take a large portion of their master's core courses without having to travel to the Atlanta campus.
ATLANTA - The Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University cordially invites you to an undergraduate open house to be held on Sunday, February 26, at 2 p.m. Activities will take place at the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing Building on the Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta, Ga., just off I-85 inside the northeast perimeter.
MACON - Mercer University graduate student Elizabeth Filippo recently published a feature article in the one of the major technical communication journals, Intercom. Filippo, of Waukesha, Wisc., is working Online through the School of Engineering's Master of Science in Technical Communication and will complete her degree in August.
