ATLANTA - David R. Blumenthal, Ph.D., the Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies at Emory University, is the featured lecturer at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology Jewish/Christian Dialogue, at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 12, in Cecil B. Day Hall on Mercer's Atlanta campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive. The conference, now in its fourth year, is co-sponsored by McAfee and the National Conference on Community and Justice. It is free and open to the public.
MACON - Local community leaders will converse with Mercer University students during the annual Leadership Dinner, sponsored by the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership Office of Student Affairs at 6 p.m., Jan 31, in the Trustees Dining Room on Macon's campus.
Understanding the family's experience with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) will be the topic of The Third Annual Armour Family Therapy Lecture Series at Mercer University School of Medicine. This year's event takes place on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m., in the School of Medicine Auditorium, 1550 College Street, Macon.
Mercer Health Systems announces the appointment of two new physicians to its psychiatric practice.
Mercer University's Tift College of Education is now offering a Master of Education degree in Community Counseling. The degree, which began in fall 2001, is designed to prepare the students to function as a counselor in a variety of community settings, including mental health centers, community agencies, hospitals, residential treatment centers, corrections and a variety of other helping and human service oriented programs.
LITHIA SPRINGS - Jerry Levin, CNN Middle East Bureau correspondent from 1981 to 1988, will lecture at 6 p.m., Jan. 30, at Mercer University's Douglas County Center, 975 Blairs Bridge Road.
Mercer University is now offering a Public Safety Leadership Institute (PSLI), which began Jan. 7 on Mercer's Atlanta campus. The Institute is designed to examine current leadership models and practices and to create an awareness of the knowledge, skills and attributes of a successful leader in the public safety environment. The PSLI has been a collective effort of Mercer's Tift College of Education and the Division of Extended Education.
MACON - Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States and the subject of the motion picture Dead Man Walking will speak Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. in Willingham Auditorium on Mercer's Macon campus, 1400 Coleman Avenue.
Erin David Lang, a third-year student in Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law, will appear on the TV game show Jeopardy Feb. 18. Lang received her undergraduate degree from Mercer in 1998. She passed the Jeopardy test and was called in October to be on the show. She and her husband, David Lang, reside in Macon. Her parents are John and Patricia David of Byron.
Atlanta - Perry resident Lacey Allen and Peachtree City resident Kristin Lamond, juniors at Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University (GBCN), presented a poster depicting the College's honor system at the annual conference of the Center for Academic Integrity, Oct. 19-21, at Texas A&M University.
