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China Expert Available to Discuss China's Currency Diversification
Need help providing analysis of the latest news about China's decision to diversify its foreign exchange
portfolio? Penelope B. Prime, Ph.D., an expert in international economics as well as China and Asia, can help. A professor at Mercer's Eugene W. Stetson
School of Business and Economics, Prime is also director of the China Research Center, which she founded in 2001. Prime has spent her entire professional career focusing
on international trade and development with an emphasis on China and Asia, holding teaching positions at Emory University, Carleton College, Georgia State University and
Kennesaw State University. She has 30 years of experience studying and working within Chinese culture and the dynamic Chinese economy. After majoring in Chinese studies
and studying Mandarin as an undergraduate at the University of Denver, she earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan. She was one of the first U.S. graduate
students to do dissertation research in China after the U.S. and China normalized relations.
Contact Penelope Prime at (678) 547-6235 or prime_pb@mercer.edu.
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Mercer Electrical Engineering Professor Earns International Teaching Award
The world's largest electrical engineering society has awarded Mercer Electrical Engineering Professor Clayton
Paul with its highest undergraduate teaching honor. IEEE named Paul as the winner of its 2007 Undergraduate Teaching Award "for sustained excellence and creativity
in the preparation of instructional material and inspirational teaching of undergraduate engineering students." Paul, the Sam Nunn Eminent Professor of Aerospace Engineering
and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Mercer, will receive the award at the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility in Hawaii in June. A world-renowned
authority in electromagnetic theory, Paul has been responsible for many seminal advancements in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
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Human Services Professor Earns Major National Award
The National Organization for Human Services has named Mercer Human Services Professor and Program Coordinator Kyra Osmus
as its 2006 recipient of the Lenore McNeer Award. Osmus received the honor based on her "distinctive contributions to the field of human services." She was presented the
award during the organization's annual conference in San Diego, Calif., held Nov. 1-4. A faculty member of the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, she has served as
the coordinator of the program for six years. A professor at Mercer for 20 years, she developed some of the University's first adult educational offerings.
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The Mercer Wind Ensemble To Perform Free Concert
The Mercer Wind Ensemble of Mercer's Townsend School of Music will give a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, at
Mount de Sales Academy's Zuver Performing Arts Center, 851 Orange Street, Macon. Mercer music professor Douglas Hill will be conducting. Featuring works by Philip Rothman, Percy
Grainger, Timothy Mahr and others, the concert will include Old English tunes, choral works from Russian literature, and John Philip Sousa's The Corcoran Cadets March.
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Rodgers Awarded National Pharmacy Scholarship
Bryan Rodgers, a fourth-year pharmacy student at Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, recently
won a scholarship from the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation.
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Bryan Rodgers, a fourth-year pharmacy student at Mercer University's
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, is one of 27 pharmacy students to be awarded a scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year by the National Community Pharmacists Association
(NCPA) Foundation. The scholarships were awarded at NCPA's 108th Annual Convention and Trade Exposition recently held in Las Vegas. In addition to the scholarship amount, recipients
received funds to help defray the cost of their expenses for the convention.
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"These talented and deserving students represent the very best of the next generation of community pharmacists," said
Charles M. West, PD, president of the NCPA Foundation. "The foundation is pleased to be able to support their pharmacy education and professional careers."
Rodgers, who is no stranger to community pharmacy, received his scholarship from The Partners in Pharmacy Program. "I grew up in
my dad's independent pharmacy (Model Drug Store) in Greensburg, Ky., and also worked at Rite-Aid pharmacy for four and a half years and Apothecare pharmacy for two years," said
Rodgers. "Receiving the scholarship has meant more financial support for my family."
Rodgers, the son of Bill Rodgers, R.Ph., and Louise Rodgers of Greensburg, Ky., is currently on his fourth-year pharmacy rotation in
his home state of Kentucky. He attended Elizabethtown Community College and University of Louisville to complete pre-pharmacy requirements and has received several scholarships while at Mercer,
including the NCPA Foundation Presidential Scholarship (Fall 2005), Upshaw Endowed Scholarship (Fall 2005), Atlanta East Point Rotary Scholarship (Fall 2005) and the J.M. Smith Foundation
Scholarship (Fall 2004). He and his wife, Sarah, have a three-year-old daughter, Victoria.
The NCPA Foundation, established in 1953 to honor former National Association of Retail Druggists Executive Secretary John W. Dargavel,
is a nonprofit organization that provides educational and research support to pharmacy faculty, students and practitioners, and assists future pharmacists by providing scholarships and low-interest educational loans.
The National Community Pharmacists Association, founded in 1898 as the National Association of Retail Druggists, represents the nation's
community pharmacists, including the owners of more than 24,000 pharmacies. The nation's independent pharmacies, independent pharmacy franchises and independent chains dispense nearly half of
the nation's retail prescription medicines.
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