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.
Mercer Health Systems announces the appointment of two new physicians to its psychiatric practice.
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.
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.
ATLANTA - The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) has awarded a research grant to Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy faculty member Christine Y. Hon for her study on histamine pharmacodynamics and genotypes. A resident of DeKalb County, Hon was one of 14 faculty members in the United States selected to receive a grant under the AACP's New Investigators Program (NIP). Supported by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, the NIP assists the research careers of new pharmacy faculty by providing start-up funding for their research.
ATLANTA - Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy student Alissa Hall has been selected as the 2002 summer intern for the National Community Pharmacy Association (NCPA). The NCPA chooses only one student for this position each year.
ATLANTA -Tift College of Education of Mercer University will host the Southeast Regional Conference for the Society for Values in Higher Education, March 8-10.
MACON — The following Mercer University students were selected by Doug Hill, Ph.D., associate professor of music at Mercer University, to participate in the All-College Band at the Georgia Music Educators Association Conference Jan. 23-26 in Savannah.
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ATLANTA - Dr. Timothy L. Owings, pastor of First Baptist Church of Augusta, will present the 2002 William L. Self Preaching Lectures, March 4-6, at the Mercer University McAfee School of Theology.
