(To review all of Mercer University's recent rankings and recognition, click here.)MACON, Ga. - Academic excellence at a great price continues to place Mercer University among America's best institutions of higher education in the latest U.S. News & World Report college guide.
MACON, Ga., - Seventeen exceptionally talented high school strings musicians from 13 states have been selected to participate in the third annual Robert McDuffie & Friends Labor Day Festival for Strings. Held at the Mercer University Townsend School of Music in Macon, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, the intense five-day festival and musical learning extravaganza will provide the students an opportunity to study at Mercer with world-renowned violinist and Distinguished University Professor of Music Robert McDuffie and some of the nation's foremost concert artists who also serve as Distinguished Artists of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer.
MACON - For the fifth year in a row, The Princeton Review has named Mercer University to its list of America's best colleges in the 2008 edition of the book, "Best 366 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of the four-year colleges in America and two Canadian colleges were chosen for the book.
WHO: Mercer University, The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
(To watch the Raising of the Flags Ceremony via Web streaming, click here.)MACON - The Mercer University School of Medicine kicked off the celebration of its 25th anniversary today with a flag-raising ceremony for the School of Medicine and its two teaching hospitals, the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.
MACON, Ga. - In the spirit of Building Winners for Life, the Atlantic Sun Conference awarded its inaugural post-graduate scholarship on Tuesday. The winners of the $3,000 scholarships were former Mercer pitcher Mike Narveson and Gardner-Webb's standout runner, Katherine Warden. The program was created to reward one male and one female student-athlete interested in pursuing graduate studies.
MACON, Ga. - Mercer, the Atlantic Sun Conference and PlayON! Sports, a division of Turner Sports announced today that they will launch ASun.TV on Tuesday, Sept. 11. A new Web service, ASun.TV will webcast a minimum of 540 regular-season and championship games across a variety of A-Sun sports, including men's and women's basketball, soccer and volleyball, as well as baseball and softball throughout the 2007-08 academic year. The first scheduled event will feature a women's volleyball match-up as the Mercer Bears host the Georgia State Panthers tonight at 7 p.m.
MACON, Ga. - Mercer University's Department of Political Science begins its Ninth Annual College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 12, in the Choir Rehearsal Room of the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon campus. This year's theme is "Caring for God's "Green" Earth: the Politics of Energy (In)Dependence and Global Warming" and will feature professors from across the University delivering timely lectures related to the theme.
MACON - Mercer University continues to lead the way in birth-through-five teacher education. Two state agencies have given Mercer's Tift College of Education $240,000 in grants in support of its innovative Early Care and Education program, bringing the total grants from the agencies to $680,000 over the past three years. For the third consecutive year, the College has received funding from the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning, this time in the amount of $90,624. The Department awarded the College $200,000 in 2005 and $190,000 in 2006 to develop articulation agreements among colleges, technical colleges and universities. The Georgia Professional Standards Commission (PSC) has also given the College, in collaboration with Kennesaw State University, a grant of $150,000 in addition to an earlier $50,000 grant, to support curriculum development."Mercer University's Tift College of Education is pleased to partner with both the Georgia Department of Early Care and...
MACON - Environmentalist and international affairs expert Sir Crispin Tickell will present "Environment on the Edge" at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Seventh Annual John E. James Distinguished Lecture. The presentation will take place in the Moot Court Room of Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law in Macon.
