Some Mercer University students recently got a firsthand look at migration near the Mexico border and volunteered with groups serving migrants who crossed into the U.S.  Dr. Katherine Roseau, assistant professor of French, and Libertad Aranza, lecturer of Spanish, took...
A class in Mercer University’s College of Professional Advancement is teaching students how they can leverage artificial intelligence and social media to create public health awareness campaigns.  Dr. Sabrina Walthall, professor of science, teaches BIOL 210: Biology of Disease each...
A campaign plan developed by four Mercer University students is helping garner support for a community project in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.   Last semester, four students in Dr. Arla Bernstein’s Integrated Communication Capstone course created an Ecocultural Advocacy Campaign Plan...
Mercer University faculty in the Department of Informatics and Mathematics are sharing their expertise with the community through free, public information sessions at the Alpharetta Library.  Dr. Awatef Ben Ramadan, assistant professor and program coordinator for information technology and informatics,...
For many, clean water comes as easily as the turn of a faucet knob. However, roughly 2 billion people in the world lack access to this resource that’s essential to their life, health and food supplies, according to the...
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...
When Ethiel Garlington first visited the Beall’s Hill neighborhood in 2014, he knew he had found an unusual place: a diverse Macon neighborhood marked by thoughtfully renovated historic homes, small, family-run businesses, and an adjoining university campus. Young Mercer...
Nearly every Mercer University student who was selected for the Peace Corps over the last five years has at least one thing in common: They participated in the University’s Peace Corps Prep certificate program.  Mercer started its Peace Corps Prep...
Mercer’s Go Baby Go program puts smiles on the faces of kids with limited mobility while empowering them and helping them gain more independence.
Middle school students learned how to make bouncy balls and simple circuits at two workshops hosted by Mercer University’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.  The activities, held March 23-24 in the Engineering Building on the Macon campus, taught...

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