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College of Continuing and Professional Studies
Dr. Brenda Callahan
Dr. Caroline Brackette
Dr. Diane Clark
Morgana Jones-Dennis
Dr. Kenyon Knapp
Dr. Larry Stewart

College of Liberal Arts

Dr. Craig Byron
Craig Coleman
Dr. Heather Bowman Cutway

Dr. John Marson Dunaway
Dr. Richard Fallis
Dr. Chris Grant
Scot J. Mann
Dr. David Nelson
Dr. Eric Spears
Dr. Richard F. Wilson

College of Pharmacy
and Health Sciences
Dr. Ajay K. Banga
Guohua Li
Haripriya Kalluri
Purna C. Kasha
Sameer G. Late
Sahitya Katikaneni
Dr. Candace Barnett
Dr. Lisa M. Lundquist
Dr. Kathryn M. Momary
Dr. Nader H. Moniri
Dr. Michell B. Redding
Dr. Bobby C. Jacob
Dr. J. Grady Strom
Satya S. S. Lanke
Dr. Hailing Zhang
Radhakrishna Maroju
David Turner

Georgia Baptist
College of Nursing

Elaine Harris
Dr. Helen Hodges
Dr. Pattie Troyan
Ann Keeley
Dr. Linda Streit

McAfee School of Theology

Dr. David G. Garber Jr.

Mercer University Press

Dr. Marc Jolley

School of Engineering

Dr. Joan Burtner
Dr. Marjorie T. Davis
Dr. Philip T. McCreanor

School of Medicine

Dr. Lee Bowen
Dr. Bowden Templeton
Dr. Grady Carter
Dr. Kerry Coburn
Kristin Howard
Carolyn Klatt
Dr. Steve Livingston
Dr. Robyn Mowery
Roxanne Nelson
Dr. Mike Smith
Rita Smith

Dr. Melton Strozier

Dr. Qian Wang
Dr. Uriel Zapata

Staff and Administration
Dr. Wallace Daniel

Stetson School of
Business and Economics
Dr. Walter Austin
Cheryl A. Tibus
Dr. Linda L. Brennan

Tift College of Education

Dr. William Lacefield
Dr. Karen Weller Swanson

Townsend School of Music

Amy Schwartz Moretti
Robert McDuffie

University Libraries

Liya Deng
Stan Trembach

Walter F. George
School of Law

Linda Berger
David Hricik
Linda Jellum
Dave Oedel
David Ritchie
Michael Sabbath
Karen Sneddon
Sue Painter-Thorne

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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:
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About News@Mercer:

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

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 vanderhoek_m@mercer.edu.

April 2010

Two Mercer MBA Programs Make ‘Top 15’ Lists in Entrepreneur Magazine

Reviews by Master of Business Administration students at the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics place the program among the top 15 in the nation in two categories of The Princeton Review’s “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools.” The MBA students cited Mercer’s preparation as superior in the categories of marketing and accounting, putting the University in the same company as Duke, Harvard, Indiana, Michigan and Northwestern. The list appears in the April 2010 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. [more]

Grants to Fund Expanded Prosthetic Program in Vietnam and Haiti

A Mercer On Mission project that provides low-cost prosthetics to amputees in developing countries has received two substantial grants to help with those efforts. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance awarded Dr. Ha Van Vo, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, with a Sustainable Vision Grant of $37,275 to help him perfect his design and set up a prosthetic lab and clinic in Vietnam. In March, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship awarded the University a $50,000 grant to replicate the Vietnam program in Haiti, where the 2010 earthquake left thousands of Haitians without limbs. [more]

Mercer to Host College-Oriented Relay for Life Event in Macon, April 9-10

For the first time, the University will host an American Cancer Society Relay for Life event. The event, MACRelay, is organized for teams from the area’s colleges and will be held April 9-10 at Porter Patch on the Macon campus. Opening ceremonies begin at 7 p.m., April 9, and the survivor reception and survivor/caregiver celebration lap will begin at 7:30 p.m. The event concludes at 7 a.m. on April 10. [more]

Federal Judge to Address Law School Commencement

R. Lanier Anderson, a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, will deliver the keynote address at the 2010 commencement ceremony of the Walter F. George School of Law. The commencement and hooding ceremony will take place Saturday, May 1, at 10 a.m. in the University Center. [more]

Mercer Earns ‘A’ Grade for Transportation on its Green Report Card

Mercer earned an “A” grade for its efforts on transportation in the 2010 Sustainability Report Card, earning placement in the Transportation Leaders category. The University was also one of just 12 schools featured in the Transportation Leaders section of the Green Report Card’s Web site. The list of Transportation Leaders is composed of 105 schools that earned “A” grades in this category. [more]

Student Traveling to Washington for Undergraduate Research Event

Corinne Gilmer, a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Mercer, will present her research on Capitol Hill as part of a national event showcasing undergraduate research. Gilmer, a junior, will attend the Council for Undergraduate Research’s Posters on the Hill in Washington, D.C., April 13. Gilmer is one of only two students from Georgia, and one of only 85 in the nation, selected to attend the event. [more]

Pharmacy Students Selected for National Internship Program

Melissa Denno and Destin Sampson, both third-year Doctor of Pharmacy students in Mercer University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, have been selected for prestigious summer internships sponsored by the Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy (FMCP) in collaboration with the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP). Denno and Sampson were among 12 students interviewed from a national applicant pool for the highly competitive internships and ended up taking both slots — the first time the internships have gone to students from the same institution. [more]

Emerson Named Men's Basketball Player of the Year for State of Georgia

Mercer senior Daniel Emerson was named the Georgia college men’s basketball “Player of the Year” for the 2009-10 season by the Atlanta Tipoff Club. Emerson, along with other ATC award winners, was honored March 23 at the Naismith Awards Banquet at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta. [more]

University’s Phronesis Project to Hold Conference on Teaching of Character

The University’s Phronesis Project will host a conference, titled “Character Across the Disciplines,” April 9-10. The conference commences Friday, April 9, with a panel discussion, titled “Character in Disciplinary Perspective,” by three of the nation’s leading experts on character development. The panel begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Medical School Auditorium and is free and open to the public. [more]

McAfee to Offer a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry

Beginning this summer, the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology will offer a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry. The degree is designed for mid-career professionals seeking to deepen their ministry without pursuing a full-time Master of Divinity. [more]

Faculty, Staff Recognition Ceremonies Coming in April

As the academic year comes to a close, the University will hold several events to recognize faculty and staff, including two Retirement and Recognition Ceremonies and a faculty awards ceremony. [more]

Mercer to Hold Undergraduate Research and Engineering Events in April

The University will host several events in April showcasing undergraduate research and engineering in Macon, including the Third Annual Engineering Expo and Fourth Annual Mercer University Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 16 in the University Center and the inaugural Mercer Undergraduate Research Conference on April 19. [more]

University Honors Founders at Executive Forum in Macon

President William D. Underwood honored founding members of the University’s Executive Forum on March 23 as part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Forum. In addition to the ceremony in Macon, the Forum featured CNBC senior analyst and financial industry expert Ron Insana, who gave presentations in Macon and Atlanta. [more]

Lofts at Mercer Village Groundbreaking Set for April 22

Officials from Sierra Development, Piedmont Construction Group LLC and Mercer will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the $10 million mixed-use Lofts at Mercer Village development on Thursday, April 22, at 3 p.m. The event will be held at the construction site located on Montpelier Avenue, across from Mercer Village. [more]

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