Gary Wall, Annika Sinha and Matthew Yin were invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), which is a program that accepts groups of individuals who make a “commitment to action.” According to the Clinton Global Initiative University website, the program is based off the ...
Humans vs. Zombies is an event that will be coming to Mercer University’s campus from April 7 to 10. Students will take on roles of humans or zombies and will act out the scenario of a zombie “plague.” This is the second annual Humans vs. Zombies event and is put on by the Residence Hall Association ...
The American Marketing Association (AMA) chapter at Mercer University held its annual AMA Day on March 26. “AMA Day is an annual event when Mercer’s AMA chapter brings in professionals to talk about the field of marketing,” said Dr. Steven McClung, associate dean of faculty and research at the ...
Friends of Tattnall Square Park has been working for over two years to restore the historic park that is just across the road from Mercer University’s Macon campus. Though treasurer Jennifer Look says that their work is always ongoing, for the first time in almost a hundred years, the park’s infrastructure ...
Thursday night, Mercer University’s Student Government Association held a question and answer session for the candidates running for the office of SGA president and vice president next year. This year is different, however, from years previous—there is only one ticket. Current senators and committee ...
Mercer recently named Gary J. Simson as senior vice provost for scholarship at the Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law. Daisy Hurst Floyd will take Simson’s previous role as law dean until a new individual is found. As senior vice provost for research and dean of graduate studies, Dr. ...
Mercer University’s Walter F. School of Law will host its 2014 Law Day luncheon with judge Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, scheduled to deliver the keynote address. The event will be held Friday, March 28, at 12:30 p.m., in Hawkins Arena inside the University Center on ...
Mercer University Associate Professor of technical communication Dr. Pam Estes Brewer has recently been chosen for the Society for Technical Communication’s Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2014. When asked how she felt about receiving the award, she said, “I was dancing in the ...
Mercer University was recently named one of five institutions to be selected to participate in the Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellowship. The Georgia Partnership is supporting the program for Excellence in Education. Mercer is becoming part of the newly developing initiative that will work toward ...
Every 85 minutes a person in need of an organ transplant dies. Service Scholar Alexandra Himes is focusing her senior project on the need for registered organ donors. Her project is called “BEARing the Gift of Life” and is aimed to raise awareness. “One of the most effective solutions to the ...
Mercer and Florida Gulf Coast Uuniversity meet on the Eagles’ home turf Sunday in a basketball game determining the champion of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Possibly more important to both schools: the champion team of A-Sun gets an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. The Bears have a feeling ...
The Residence Hall Association is a student-led group designed to make residence hall life as enjoyable as possible for the students. RHA also works to develop a sense of pride within the residence halls and develop a feeling of community among the residents. Josh Gaisser, the area coordinator for ...
Mercer University’s Roberts Department of Christianity had the honor of inviting Dr. Carol A. Newsom to be the 2014 Harry Vaughan Smith Visiting Distinguished Professor of Christianity. “Carol Newsom is such an impressive and well-established scholar that we consider ourselves most fortunate that ...
This past Friday, the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon played host to “Combustible/Burn,” a play documenting the story of desegregation at Mercer University. Originally written by Page Morton Hunter professor of English Dr. Andrew Silver in 2002, the play was brought back as part of the yearlong ...
In light of recent developments in the state capital, SGA President Raymond Partolan, Mercer freshman Dilan Garcia, and three other undocumented students hosted a viewing of the documentary “The Dream is Now” followed by a panel discussion in order to get students on campus more involved and politically ...
Mercer University SGA is utilizing social media in order to provide a voice for the student body with the new their Facebook campaign called “#Mercerprobs” On Feb. 10 Senior Senator Allie Straka created the Facebook page “#Mercerprobs” in hopes of providing a platform for students to voice ...
Mercer University students have missed two full days of classes and at least two half-days during what has been an unusually cold and snowy winter in Macon. Last week, students waited for an email from Rick Cameron, senior assistant vice president for marketing and communications, to find out if classes ...
February 20-23: “Picasso” at the Lapin Agile Backdoor Theatre February 20: Women’s Basketball vs. USC Upstate Hawkins Arena @ 7 p.m. February 21: Open Mic Night Bear Rock Cafe @ 7 p.m. February 22: Women’s Basketball vs. ETSU Hawkins Arena @ 3 p.m. February ...
Irish artist Brendan Jamison recently visited Mercer University to give a talk about his art work and to install a contemporary collage show in the Plunkett Gallery. He has had a lot of experience with doing public art around the world. His most recent project has been “Sugar Metropolis,” a large-scale ...
Mercer University’s Roberts Department of Christianity had the honor of naming Dr. Carol A. Newsom as the 2014 Harry Vaughan Smith Visiting Distinguished Professor of Christianity. Newsom is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament and director of the Graduate Division of Religion at ...
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