It was raining cats, dogs and beads in Mercer Village on February 12, a.k.a. Fat Tuesday. The weather was not in favor for celebrating Mardi Gras, but the festivities still occurred with a crowd of people. The businesses of Mercer Village hosted an array of specials for students and customers to enjoy ...
Robert McDuffie, founder of the McDuffie Center for Strings (MCS), collaborated with MCS faculty and students to deliver a packed concert Saturday, Feb. 9 in Fickling Hall. He played three pieces, two of which featured the Director of the Center, Amy Schwartz Moretti. Other faculty members Rebecca Albers ...
The Delta Sigma Pi Professional Business Fraternity and the Student Government Association are preparing to host Business Week, a free event for students who are interested in learning more about the business world and the businesses here in Macon, from February 18-21. Through an initiative called Paint ...
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. Jennifer Look and a collection of students will be studying the chemical make-up of neighborhoods around Mercer. Look received a grant from the Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation of $500, which was then matched ...
Mercer University’s baseball team hosted their annual First Pitch Classic event Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in the University Center to kick off the beginning of the season. Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves was the keynote speaker for the event. Murphy talked with many of the guests in attendance while signing ...
Mercer University alumnus and former Trustee A.V. Elliott donated and helped design the new Elliot Bell Tower which will become part of new Mercer traditions once the football season kicks off next fall. President Bill Underwood offered a small and informal dedication ceremony at the Moye Football and ...
On Feb. 7, junior Carly Iannarino was in class taking a test when she received a phone call saying her car had been stolen and found. Iannarino was not aware her car had been stolen the previous night. A Macon police officer found Iannarino’s green 1995 Honda Accord abandoned near Macon Mall after ...
A Mercer Police officer punched a fellow officer in the face Jan. 20 after an argument occurred between the two around 3 a.m. According to the incident report, Joseph Calloway and his supervisor, Cpl. Wesley Hillard got into a verbal argument about a noise complaint dispatched that morning, resulting ...
Man was charged with murdering two Mercer students in 1995 On Feb. 21 Andrew Allen Cook will be sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of two Mercer students. Cook was convicted in a 1998 trial of murdering 22-year-old Grant Hendrickson and 19-year-old Michele Cartagena. At approximately midnight on ...
There’s a new kid on the block of Mercer Village: the William Alexander Salon. The salon is open for business, although it is still being renovated. The salon hosts an array of services from hair services to waxing to nail services. It also offers massages and makeup services. It is essentially a ...
Exciting opportunities continue for the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer’s Townsend School of Music. Students from all over the country applied to compete in the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) national solo competition. Of the limited 12 finalist positions in the Senior ...
Mercer University is currently one of the national finalists for the 2013 ArtPlace Grant. If obtained, Mercer plans to use the funds gained from the grant to renovate the Tattnall Square Presbyterian Church. According to Lake Lambert, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, “We made the first cut and ...
On Jan. 24, Georgia Power President and CEO Paul Bowers visited both the Atlanta and Macon campuses of Mercer University to give a presentation to the Mercer Executive Forum. Funded in large part by BB&T, the Executive Forum of Mercer University aims to be an outreach program of the business school ...
An up and coming Mercer tradition, Stompfest, hosted by QuadWorks, is around the corner. The event is scheduled for Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon. Stompfest is a step show that hosts an array of Greek organizations from all over the state including Mercer’s own organizations. Tickets ...
Author Lee Smith is the 2013 winner of the Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature. Mercer University’s Southern Studies Program awards the Sidney Lanier Prize to honor significant contributions to Southern writing. The stories Smith writes are often about the southern Appalachian Mountains. Her ...
Around 20 Mercer seniors are considering beginning their life after college by spending nine months in a land nicknamed the “The Country of Smiles”. With the Teach Thailand Corps, part of American-Thai Foundation, they will teach conversational English to children grades k-12 in Thailand. English ...
Mercer Alumnus Dr. Ferrol Sams Jr. , 90, died Tuesday of natural causes. Sams was know by his friends as, "Sambo." Sams is best known to Mercer students as the author of “Whisper of The River.” The book was first published in 1984. “Whisper of The river” has been required reading for Mercer ...
A table was set up with prize give-aways and raffle tickets in the Hummingbird on Jan. 10 for the charity organization known as Dance Marathon. Members of Dance Marathon accepted money donations and sold koozies, t-shirts and themed cups. Members also provided information about Dance Marathon to anyone ...
Mercer University is hosting its fifth annual First Pitch Classic on Feb. 13. The First Pitch Classic is an event held by Mercer as a kick-off for the baseball team’s season. The event will be held in the University Center. Coach Craig Gibson has announced that the featured speaker for this year’s ...
Last semester, Bob Hoffman, Head Coach of the Men’s Basketball team at Mercer and Rick Cameron, “The Voice of the Bears” began a radio show entitled The Bob Hoffman Radio Show. Hoffman and Cameron join at Margaritas to host a live show every Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Hoffman and Cameron will host ...
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