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Two separate groups of Mercer University students and faculty traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, this summer. While their missions were different, both teams touched the lives of local residents … and found themselves changed in return.
Economic development
The first...
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...
MACON – Mercer University’s Engineering Honors Program and Tift College of Education will host their latest Go Baby Go build on Oct. 1 to modify battery-powered toy cars for children with limited mobility.
The build will take place from 10:30...
Dr. Craig McMahan keeps a video on his cellphone. The footage begins with an image of a middle-aged Vietnamese farmer, his arms slung over a set of rickety crutches, struggling back and forth across a room.
His baseball hat is...
Mercer University School of Medicine third-year M.D. students Marissa D’Souza, Kunal Patel, Payton Prins and Catherine Waldron recently developed the MUSM COVID-19 Student Response Team to organize student efforts to help combat the new coronavirus.
The Association of American Medical Colleges recommended...
Mercer University School of Medicine students know there are a lot of COVID-19 vaccines that need to be administered and not a lot of manpower to do it. So, they are stepping up to receive vaccine training and volunteer...
A Guinea orphanage made such a positive impression on Sarah Harris and Carrie Bezanson last summer that they jumped at the chance to return for an internship.
They were among the participants for the 2018 Mercer On Mission (MOM) three-week trip to southern Guinea. The Mercer team worked...
MACON – Mercer rising senior Geneis Crimé was recently offered early admission into the Teach For America (TFA) corps and will serve as the University’s first-ever TFA Ambassador during the upcoming academic year.
“I was thrilled to learn of Geneis’ acceptance...
Mercer University’s mission to produce students majoring in changing the world is directly aligned with the personal ethos of senior biology major Krupa Patel, a mentor for the Village Book Builders.
The Village Book Builders is a nonprofit organization that...
Mercer University aims to continue its tradition of being one of Central Georgia’s most generous workplaces as it kicks off this year’s United Way campaign with a Sept. 23 luncheon on Cruz Plaza.
Last year, the University raised a record...
