WHO: Fifty-six first-year students entering Mercer University School of Medicine.
WHAT: Boxes, trunks, lamps and even stuffed animals will line the sidewalks around Mercer's residence halls as new students arrive on campus for fall semester. Faculty and staff will join families in helping students settle into their new living quarters away from home. Parents will have a chance to visit on campus and share time with their student in the University's new dining facility before waving goodbye.
WHO: First-year students at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy
Macon and Atlanta, GA - First-year students at Mercer University School of Medicine will be cloaked in their white coats on Sunday, Aug. 18, as part of the annual White Coat Ceremony marking their formal induction into the discipline of medicine. For the first time ever, students from Mercer's Southern School of Pharmacy will be given their white coats during a similar ceremony in Atlanta on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Atlanta -- Dr. R. Alan Culpepper, dean of Mercer's McAfee School of Theology, attended the biennial meeting of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in Pittsburgh, June 22-24, to receive full membership into the group as an accredited school of theology.
Mercer University President R. Kirby Godsey conferred an honorary doctor of laws degree on Rep. David E. Lucas, Sr., during the School of Medicine commencement June 1 in Macon. The degree was presented to Lucas in recognition of his dedication to medical education and health care in Georgia.
Atlanta -- The Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education (ARCHE) has announced the election of its board of trustees officers for the 2002-03 academic year.
McDonough - Officials from Mercer University and Henry County broke ground today on a 30,000-square-foot regional education center, to be located at I-75 and exit 218 in Henry County.
ATLANTA - Mercer University graduate Wynetta Scott-Simmons of Fayetteville received the Outstanding Student in Early Childhood Education award at Mercer's commencement ceremony May 9 on Mercer's Atlanta campus.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Tift College of Education awarded Walt W. Henry of Lawrenceville the Outstanding Student in Middle Grades Education Award at Mercer's commencement ceremony May 9 on Mercer's Atlanta campus.
