When an after-school program abruptly ended, a Macon church and Mercer University stepped in to fill a need for local families. This is the second year that Centenary United Methodist Church, located adjacent to Mercer’s campus, has provided after-school...
Soon-to-be Double Bear Elizabeth Copelan is making a difference in the Macon community through her efforts in spreading positivity, one card at a time.
Copelan, a Tift College of Education alumna and current master's degree student, began teaching 3K at...
Mercer University students are helping solve real-world challenges related to foreign policy through the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomacy Lab.
The University’s first Diplomacy Lab course took place last semester, with students in Dr. Rachael Goodman’s poverty alleviation class examining...
MACON – An initiative led by Andrea S. Meyer Stinson, Ph.D., LMFT, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences/pediatrics in Mercer University School of Medicine, has received renewed funding for the next two years.
Resilient Middle Georgia, a trauma-informed community-building organization,...
MACON – A team of researchers involved in Mercer University’s Mercer On Mission program focused on reducing mercury pollution and human exposure to mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been named a finalist for the Artisanal Mining...
For nearly a decade, Mercer University's McDonald Center for the Advancement of Global Education has been working with schoolteachers and leaders in the Dominican Republic to improve education in the country.
Its ongoing efforts include in-country support and training, virtual...
Mercerians helped local entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level during a three-week trip to Rwanda earlier this summer.
Since 2015, faculty and students from Mercer’s School of Business have visited capital city Kigali for this Mercer On Mission...
They could have lived on the Mercer campus with their peers, but two students chose to take up residence among an older and wiser crowd this year.
Junior Ava Nguyen and senior Elise Colquitt are the first two Bears to...
When the Napier Heights Food Co-op launched about a year ago, it did so without a brand identity.
“I think our profile picture was a tomato that my husband drew,” co-op founder Andrea Cooke said.
So when she heard that a...
Mercer University junior Lara Edgeman has watched the Brookdale Resource Center transform from an elementary school to a resource center for the homeless.
Edgeman taught third grade at Brookdale Elementary School as part of her major in education, and now...
