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College of Continuing
and Professional Studies
Dr. Richard R. Bohannon
Dr. Caroline Brackette
Dr. Lynn Clemons
Dr. Priscilla Danheiser
Dr. Tim Craker
Dr. Fred Bongiovanni
Dr. Karen Lacey
Dr. Karen Rowland
Dr. Diane Clark

College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Julie Beier
Dr. Jeff Denny
Dr. Keith Howard
Dr. Carolyn Yackel
Dr. Jamie Cockfield
Craig Coleman
Dr. John Marson Dunaway
Dr. Tom Glennon
Scot J. Mann
Dr. Gary A. Richardson
Dr. Charlotte Thomas
Dr. Carolyn Yackel
Marian Zielinski

College of Pharmacy
and Health Sciences
Dr. Justine S. Gortney
Dr. Julie Kissack
Dr. Diane L. Nykamp

McAfee School of Theology
Dr. Brett Younger

School of Medicine
Jane Bridges
Dr. Steven House
Dr. Edward C. Lauterbach
Dr. J. Paul Seale
Dr. Sylvia Shellenberger
Dr. W. Douglas Skelton
Dr. Zhongbiao Wang
Dr. Lingwei Kong
Dr. Jing Kang
Dr. Joe H. Morgan
Dr. Sam D. Shillcutt
Dr. Joe S. Robinson
Dr. Don K. Nakayama

Mercer Engineering
Research Center
Donald “Sonny” Johnston
Douglas Duston

Staff and Administration
Dr. Wallace L. Daniel

Stetson School
of Business and Economics
Dr. Scott Beaulier
Dr. Linda Brennan
Dr. Etienne Musonera

Tift College of Education
Dr. William Lacefield
Dr. Margaret Morris
Carolyn Garvin
Dr. William Lacefield
Dr. Peter Ross
Dr. Wynnetta Scott-Simmons

Townsend School of Music
Dr. Douglas Hill
Dr. Monty Cole
Amy Schwartz Moretti
Robert McDuffie
Elizabeth Pridgen

University Libraries
Laura M. Botts

Walter F. George
School of Law
Linda Berger
Jack Sammons
Jim Fleissner
David Hricik
Harold Lewis Jr.
Jennifer Sheppard
Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
Michael Sabbath

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Mercer In The News Blog

Read about Mercer faculty, staff, alumni and students who are being featured or quoted in local, state and national media outlets at:
blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews

About News@Mercer:

A publication of Marketing Communications at Mercer University, News@Mercer is an online newsletter for Mercer University faculty, staff and administrators.

News@Mercer Editor:
Mark Vanderhoek
(478) 301-4037

To submit a faculty or staff achievement, e-mail your achievement, along with your full title, degree and school to news@mercer.edu.

Mercer Conference Calls for End to 21st Century Slavery

In the face of the world’s fastest-growing crime — the enslavement of a million men, women and children every year — Lauran Bethell had some profoundly simple advice for the 800 attendees at Mercer’s recent anti-human trafficking conference in Macon: “Just show up.” [more]

Bina Appointed Dean of the School of Medicine

President William D. Underwood announced March 20 the appointment of Dr. William F. Bina III as dean of the School of Medicine, effective immediately. The appointment of Dr. Bina, who has served as interim dean of the School since July 1, 2008, and chair of the Department of Community Medicine since 2003, follows an 11-month-long national search. [more]

Gunby Announces Retirement As Dean of Nursing

Susan S. Gunby, R.N., Ph.D., dean of Mercer’s Georgia Baptist College of Nursing for more than 20 years, will retire from the post effective July 1, she announced today. Dr. Gunby holds a professorship in the College and will return to full-time teaching upon her retirement as dean. [more]

Mercer to Host 2010, 2011 Basketball Championships

The Atlantic Sun Conference has named Mercer host of its 2010 and 2011 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships. Conference officials made the announcement at a news conference on March 17 in the University Center Arena, where the tournaments will be held. [more]

Mercer, Japanese University Sign High-Level Agreement

Mercer President William D. Underwood and Dr. Shigeaki Tsunoyama, president of the University of Aizu, a Japanese engineering university, signed a general high-level agreement on March 16, laying the groundwork for an exchange program between the two schools. [more]

Upcoming Graduates Learn Residency Destinations

MACON — Fifty-six senior medical students at the School of Medicine took part March 19 in the annual Match Day rite of passage — a nationwide event that serves to inform upcoming medical school graduates of the residency programs they will enter upon graduation. Until Match Day, senior medical students are unsure of where they will spend the next few years as residents. [more]

Center Holds Conference on the American Founding

Mercer’s Center for the Teaching of America’s Western Foundations is holding its culminating conference on the American founding March 31 and April 1 on the Macon campus. The conference, titled “The Triumphs and Travails of the Natural Rights Republic,” began with a presentation by Dr. John W. Danford, professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago and will conclude April 1 with the keynote address by noted scholar and author Dr. Michael Zuckert, professor of political science at Notre Dame University. [more]

Balmer to Present Shurden Lectures at Mercer

The Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer, a noted historian, author and scholar, will present the annual Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State on April 14-15 on Mercer’s Macon campus. The lectures are sponsored by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and Mercer through a gift by retired Mercer professors Walter and Kay Shurden and are free and open to the public. [more]

Clemons Named Governor’s Teaching Fellow

Dr. Lynn W. Clemons, assistant professor of organization leadership and chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Sciences in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, has been chosen to participate in the prestigious Governor’s Teaching Fellows 2009 Summer Symposium. Dr. Clemons is one of only 12 professors from across Georgia selected for the program, which is designed to move faculty to the leading edge of instructional practice. [more]

Mercer Chapter of Sigma Xi holds Spring Banquet

The Mercer Chapter of Sigma Xi, a faculty research honor society, held its spring banquet at the University Center on March 17. Thirty-four new members were inducted at the ceremony, which included remarks from Mercer President William D. Underwood and a keynote address by Mercer Provost Dr. Wallace M. Daniel. [more]

American Idol David Cook to Perform at The Grand in Macon

2008 American Idol winner and platinum-selling recording artist David Cook will make his Macon debut Wednesday, April 8, when the record-breaking, chart-topping rocker performs for a sell-out crowd at The Grand Opera House, a performing arts center of Mercer University. The date is part of his first headline tour “The Declaration Tour – 2009.” It is his first scheduled date in Georgia on the solo tour that is hitting college towns across the nation. [more]

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