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Meet Mercer’s visiting Fulbright scholar

Natalia de Souza Sterci is currently Mercer’s visiting professor as part of the Fulbright scholar program. Sterci is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she studied during her undergraduate years in college. Sterci originally studied to be a translator, but she later decided she wanted to be ...

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New Mercer app for students

As of Monday, the Mercer University Board of Appropriations approved the funding for a new Mercer smartphone application. The first stirrings of this idea came approximately one year ago, and the idea is finally becoming a reality. The app, called Campus Access, by Dub Labs, will include many things ...

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Mercer on Mission expanding Vietnam program

The Vietnam Mercer on Mission trip is looking to expand its program, and perhaps even establish a full-time presence. This past December, volunteers including Mercer University president William Underwood and donor to the program Chris Sheridan traveled to two cities in Vietnam in order to fit prosthetics ...

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Mercer Educators planning to build a playground

Mercer Educators in Action (MEIA) is an organization for students on Mercer University’s campus who are pursuing education degrees in the Tift College of Education. The group is actively involved in the Macon community and strives to raise funds for local schools. During last semester, the group raised ...

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Pete Rose featured as keynote speaker at First Pitch Classic

The sixth annual First Pitch Classic ceremony marking the start of the Mercer Bears baseball season will be hosted this year on Tuesday, Feb. 4, featuring keynote speaker Pete Rose, a former 24 year-career MLB star. Unlike previous speakers from the Atlanta Braves such as Chipper Jones, Dale Murphy, ...

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Upcoming Events

February 6: Resume and Cover Letter Workshop CSC Conference Room 2 @ 4-6 p.m., Women’s Basketball vs. Northern Kentucky Hawkins Arena @ 7 p.m.   February 7: First Friday Downtown   February 8: Women’s Basketball vs. Lipscomb Hawkins Arena @ 3 p.m.   February 10: Stamp a Ring ...

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Renovations made to Mercer Tower

Corey Zeller, head of the Campus Safety and Improvements Committee within the Student Government Association, is currently leading a project to improve the historical room that all visitors go into before ascending to the tower. “The room is dated,” said Zeller,  so the committee is using the funds ...

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Plans being drawn up for new Mercer buildings

Change is happening at Mercer University, and school administration and faculty have taken notice. Since the 1997-1998 school year, the number of biology and chemistry credit hours taken by Mercer students each year has increased by nearly 100 percent, growing from 4,745 in ’97-’98 to over ...

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SHAPE holds first Blitz event of the year

On Jan. 14, SHAPE held its second SHAPE Blitz event in the lobby of Connell Student Center. SHAPE stands for Sexual Assault, Hazing and Alcohol Prevention Education. It was started in 2007 to centralize the efforts of different programs and organizations on campus.That effort led to the creation ...

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President Underwood recieves Citizen of the Year award

President William D. Underwood was recently named Macon’s Citizen of the Year by the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce at the organization’s 153rd annual meeting on Dec. 5. Chamber member Chris Sheridan of Chris R. Sheridan & Co., who recently completed the construction of Cruz Plaza for Mercer ...

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Phi Beta Kappa visits Mercer’s Macon campus

For the first time in history, the Phi Beta Kappa Society is considering Mercer University to shelter a chapter. This oldest and most widely-known academic honor society was the first college society to use Greek letters for its name, and includes members such as Condoleezza Rice, Bill Clinton ...

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SGA President decides to keep prayer part of meetings

SGA President Raymond Partolan announced his decision to keep SGA’s invocation, a prayer said before each senate meeting, for the rest of the year in response to last week’s proposal for its removal. Partolan said that he conferred with the executive SGA officers before reaching his decision on ...

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Great Books program hosts second Great Books Games

On Saturday, Oct. 26, students from all the Great Books classes were able to come together in the spirit of competition in Mercer University’s second annual Great Books Games. Classes became teams that competed in competitions that included a chariot race, a foot race, a rock throw, a banner ...


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