George P. Oslin, a 1920 graduate of Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is credited with inventing the singing telegram.
As a Western Union executive, he sent the very first singing telegram — in which a Western Union...
Austin Rayford is Housing and Residence Life area coordinator for the apartments and Greek Village.
Alicia Hernandez didn’t plan on dropping out of high school.
Even after getting pregnant at age 14, she continued her schooling until a couple of incidents made her feel unsafe in class. That’s when she dropped out of 10th grade and started working.
Her mother stayed home with Hernandez’s daughter...
Stephanie Howard, director of the Mercer Innovation Center, has worked at Mercer for six years.
Bill Yoast, the assistant football coach portrayed in the movie “Remember the Titans,” was a 1949 graduate of Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The 2000 film tells the story of the T.C. Williams High School football team’s...
It takes a lot of people to make Mercer University the institution that it is. The students have and always will be the lifeblood of our University, but Mercer wouldn't be Mercer without expert faculty members to pass on...
Abigail Thorne, a 2020 graduate of Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
What are your plans after graduation?
After graduation, I plan to move to Colorado to start as a nurse resident in...
When Mercer University student Bailey Grace Pattison submitted her first video for the 478 Sings United competition, her goal was just to advance past the first round.
It was Pattison’s first time releasing music on her own. She never anticipated...
Phil Walden is known as one of the founders of Capricorn Records, but his story as a music pioneer actually began as a student at Mercer University.
Walden, a 1962 graduate, was booking bands for fraternity parties when he discovered...
It takes a lot of people to make Mercer University the institution that it is. The students have and always will be the lifeblood of our University, but Mercer wouldn't be Mercer without expert faculty members to pass on...
