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Cameron Collins, student affairs specialist, Admissions and Student Affairs, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Susan Gilbert, dean and professor of economics and...
Two Mercer Law alums, James Phillip “Phil” Bond ('83), and Richard Gerikitis ('81), were honored during the First Annual Mercer Law Alumni Dinner on...
MACON - Five upcoming graduates from Mercer University have accepted the challenge of Teach For America, the highly selective program that places graduates from the country's best colleges in low-income schools. The group joins a growing list of Mercer alumni who have served in the program, which provides training, ongoing support, mentoring and grants to participants. All five will graduate on May 12 from the College of Liberal Arts. The students are: Sarah Brown, Josh Coleman, Christina Kivi, Katie Matthews and Kyle Shook.
Students of the Mercer Wind Ensemble will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 22, at The Grand Opera House in downtown Macon. Dr. Douglas Hill, director of Instrumental Ensembles at Mercer University, will serve as conductor for the ensemble. The event is free and open to the public. Call the Department of Music at (478) 301-2748 for more information.
The program will include Four Scottish Dances (Malcolm Arnold), O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen), Suite of English Folk-Dances (Ernest Tomlinson), Sleep (Eric Whitacre), Symphonies of Gaia (Jayce Ogren), George Washington Bridge (William Schuman) and Shortcut Home (Dana Wilson).
Founded in 1833, Mercer University has campuses in Macon and Atlanta as well as three regional academic centers. With 10 schools and colleges, the University offers programs in liberal arts, business, engineering, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law and theology. For 15 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has named...
WHO: Mercer University President William D. Underwood
(The following article was published May 31 on the Web site of the Macon Telegraph.)By Liz FabianWhen construction delays postponed the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn at Mercer University, the property management company decided to put the staff to work anyway by volunteering with local charities.Larry Blumberg & Associates is paying hotel workers who were originally scheduled to open the 101-room hotel in May.
What: Mercer University, the city of Macon and the College Hill Corridor Commission have scheduled a news conference to announce a major new grant for the College Hill Corridor.
ATLANTA- Mercer University will offer a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) preparation course from 5:30-9:30 p.m. on Thursdays from May 24 - June 28. Offered on the University's Cecil B. Day Atlanta Campus, this six-week course is designed to help individuals score their best on the GRE and get them one step closer to graduate school.
The city of Atlanta has tapped the China Research Center at Mercer's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics to study its options for a sister city. Currently mulling three offers, the city turned to the Center and director Penelope Prime, Ph.D., a professor of economics at the Stetson School of Business and Economics, to help research the prospects of the three candidate cities, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.To read the story, visit ajc.com.
LITHIA SPRINGS - Mercer University will offer two Praxis I exam preparation workshops for prospective teachers at its Douglas County Regional Academic Center, 975 Blairsbridge Road, in Lithia Springs off Interstate 20, exit 44 at Thompson Road. The Praxis I exam is one of the steps required to become a certified teacher in Georgia.
The Praxis I Verbal Workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. Individuals will receive hands-on practice at taking the reading and writing sections of the PPST or CBT exam, and will learn a variety of strategies and approaches that will help them tackle reading comprehension and on-the-spot essay writing with confidence. Sample readings, questions and essay prompts will be analyzed. The workshop will also have a refresher of grammar basics.
The Praxis I Math Workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 6. The workshop will cover all the major components of the Mathematics section on the PPST or the...
