When Tim Willis first lined up for cross country practice at Shamrock High School, no one could have guessed that the teenager using a...
MACON, Ga. — Mercer University English professor Dr. Gordon Johnston was recently chosen for the Inaugural Georgia Humanities Georgia Circuit Speakers Bureau.
Mercer University alumnus Lee Lavender built a career around operations training and disaster response, and his extensive experience has now led him to a...
A Mercer University faculty member plays a military soldier in the fifth and final season of Netflix’s hit television series, Stranger Things. Dr. Christopher Schmitz, professor of music theory and composition,...
Mercer University announces faculty and staff notables for February 2026.
MACON, Ga. — Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2026 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to poet and author Kevin Young. The prize will be presented Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the University’s Presidents Dining Room.
Theirs was a whirlwind romance.
It was 1969. They met by chance in Argentina, but she lived in Chile. There were no cellphones or internet,...
Mercer University Interim Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management Dr. Maria Hammett has promoted Emmilee Mitchell, director of student financial planning operations, to interim associate vice president for financial planning, effective immediately.
When Dr. Penny L. Elkins visited Mercer’s Macon campus for the first time after graduating high school, she discovered a community she knew would...
Mercer University School of Law Associate Professor Bonnie Carlson traces her interest in the legal profession to a defining moment early in her college...
