[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500"] Photo Credit: Mercer Marketing and Communications[/caption] The Georgia Asian Times has published a list of the ‘Top 25 Most Influential Asian-Americans in Georgia.’ The list includes Farooq Mughal, Sharon Lim Harle, and Bryan Ramos, each Mercer University ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500"] Photo Credit: Patrick Hobbs / Cluster Staff[/caption] Groundbreaking for the new Cruz Plaza took place on Wednesday, December 12, 2013. Mercer trustee Milton L Cruz, a graduate of Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts, provided the lead gift for ...
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="426"] Photo Credit: Mercer Marketing and Communications[/caption] The National Medical Association has awarded the 2013 Practitioner of the Year Award to Dr. Warren Hutchings, Director of the Student Health Center and on the Macon Campus of Mercer University. ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500"] Photo Credit: Patrick Hobbs / Cluster Staff[/caption] Mercer University is expanding its student housing portfolio on the North side of campus. Sierra Development broke ground this summer in the construction of the third phase of the Lofts at Mercer Village. Jim ...
On Thursday, April 11, Mercer University held its sixth annual Engineer Expo. The purpose of the Engineer Expo was to display the accomplishments of Mercer’s Engineering students and the projects they have worked on this year. The Engineer Expo lasted two days, and was part of the Mercer’s BEAR ...
To recognize our outstanding athletes and the contribution they make to our school, Student Athlete Day was held at Mercer on April 10, 2013. This has been a big annual event for all of the student athletes to get together. Mercer has had this event for many years. There is a National Student Athlete ...
The long-awaited literary and arts magazine from the Dulcimer was released last Thursday, April 11. The Dulcimer hosted an annual release party to celebrate and bring together art and literature lovers. The event was held downtown at the 567. To start off the evening at the release party, there was a ...
Beginning on Friday, April 12, and concluding on Sunday, April 15, Mercer’s Townsend School of Music hosted a weekend-long dedication and inauguration of its Giuseppe Englert Memorial Organ. The University received the organ as a gift earlier in the school year, and recently fi nished installation at ...
On Friday, April 12, SGA executed its annual Taste of Macon in the outfi eld of Mercer baseball’s weekend series against Florida Gulf Coast. It did not take long for a crowd to show up and get in line for this event. While students awaited their chance to acquire a plate of local delicacies, Mercer’s ...
On April 11, students presented unique works from the year at the Breakthrough Engaging the Arts and Research event, known as BEAR Day. BEAR Day allows students to present research in the sciences and humanities through posters, presentations and an art show. BEAR Day ran in parallel with an Engineering ...
Rain failed to deter many community members from attending the Magnolia Street Soap Box Derby on April 14. The derby, organized by InTown Macon and College Hill Alliance, attracted a crowd of over 1,000. Attendance was down from 2,500 attendees last year but according to InTown Macon’s Koryn Young, ...
April 17 will mark the opening of Mercer Medicine’s and Piedmont Healthcare’s collaborative organ transplant satellite clinic. The clinic will provide crucial preoperative and post-operative transplant services to those in Central Georgia needing kidney transplants. Of the 3,200 Georgia patients ...
Last Wednesday Mercer’s annual SHAPE Carnival took place in the University Center. The intention of the Carnival was to help raise awareness on sexual assault, hazing and alcohol prevention by having participants partake in different games and events. The aim of the carnival is to help people understand ...
On Thursday, April 4, a dodgeball tournament has held at 7 p.m. at the intramural basketball court in the University Center. The dodgeball tournament was a joint fundraising event between the Biomedical Engineering Society and the Mercer University Korean Student Association. The requirements to enter ...
During halftime of the Michigan versus Syracuse semifinal game, Jakob Gollon, junior forward for the Mercer men’s basketball team was officially honored with a spot on the All State National Association of Basketball Coaches Good Works Team. The award recognizes a unique group of men’s college basketball ...
Last weekend was about supporting cancer survivors, remembering loved ones and battling against the elusive disease, as both Mercer and Wesleyan held their Relay for Life events. Mercer hosted its Relay for Life April 5 on the intramural courts in the University Center from 6-11 p.m. Different Mercer ...
The Student Government Association concluded the annual Presidential elections last Tuesday, April 2, with the victory of rising junior senators, Raymond Partolan as SGA President and Melina Hettiaratchi as Vice President. Partolan is majoring in political science and Spanish. He has had previous Student ...
The Mercer Student Government Association (SGA) is launching a new SGA mobile application, or app, in hopes of bringing all Mercer information within students’ fingertips. SGA President Mollie Davis said the app would be “A one-stop shop for all Mercer information,” which gives students’ access ...
Everyone at Mercer is aware of the strong push on campus for service and work in the community through programs like LEAP and Mercer on Mission. Because of these efforts, Mercer University has been honored as one of 113 schools recognized on President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll ...
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