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College of Continuing and Professional Studies

Dr. J. Thompson Biggers
Mary Lou Beall
Larry Boon
Dr. Brenda Callahan
Dr. Diane Clark
Dr. Margaret Eskew
Dr. David Lane
Dr. Donna Lane
Dr. Feng Liu

College of Liberal Arts

Dr. David P. Aiello
Dr. Mary Ann Drake
Dr. Douglas Thompson
Dr. John Marson Dunaway
Randall Harshbarger
Dr. Paul Lewis
Dr. Frank J. Macke
Scot J. Mann
Dr. Lydia Masanet
Dr. Yosálida C. Rivero-Zaritzky
Dr. José Pino
Beth Ellen Stewart
Dr. Charlotte Thomas
Dr. Richard F. Wilson
Dr. Bryan J. Whitfield
Dr. John C. Wright

College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Dr. Ajay K. Banga
Dr. Vanthida Huang
Dr. Lisa M. Lundquist
Dr. Diane Matesic
Dr. Susan W. Miller
Dr. Laurel E. Ashworth
Nadja V. Button
Dr. Gregory V. Stajich
Dr. Kristi M. Quairoli
Dr. Kathryn M. Momary
Dr. Nader H. Moniri
Dr. Gina J. Ryan
Dr. Chalet Tan
Dr. Chad M. VanDenBerg

Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics

Dr. Angela Dills
Dr. William Skip Mounts
Dr. Scott Beaulier

James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology

Dr. Loyd Allen

School of Medicine

Dr. David Burtner
Dr. Kerry L. Coburn
Margaret Gaskill
Dr. David L. Innes
Dr. Sylvia Shellenberger
Dr. J. Paul Seale
Dr. Dona L. Harris
Dr. James L. Thomas

School of Engineering

Dr. Marjorie Davis
Dr. George Hayhoe
Dr. Sinjae Hyun
Dr. Richard Kunz
Dr. Paul E. MacNeil
Dr. Laura Lackey
Dr. Richard Mines
Dr. R. Radharamanan
Dr. Hodge Jenkins

Tift College of Education

Sharon Murphy Augustine
Dr. Sherah Carr
Dr. William Lacefield
Dr. Margaret Morris

Townsend School of Music

Dr. Monty Cole
Dr. Douglas Hill
Amy Schwartz Moretti
Robert McDuffie
Christopher Rex
Andres Diaz
Christopher Macklin
Dr. Robert Parris

Staff and Administration

Steve Brown
Theresa A. Crowley
Dr. Wallace L. Daniel
Derek Hart
Charlene Leach
Kim Meredith
Mark Vanderhoek

University Libraries

Laura M. Botts
Robert G. Gardner

Walter F. George School of Law

David Ritchie
Jim Fleissner
Sarah Gerwig-Moore
Denise Gibson
Ismael Gullon
David Hricik
Linda Jellum

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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, 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.

Homecoming Moves to Fall, Bears Take On Tech in Homecoming Game

Mercerians from all generations are planning to return to campus in mid-November to join current students, faculty and staff for Homecoming 2008, as the annual celebration moves to fall for the first time in several years. The theme for the week is “Reconnect, Reunite and Rediscover.” The program will be a joint effort of the University’s Alumni Services, Student Affairs and Athletics departments. [more]

Mercer to Host National Torture Summit in Atlanta

An unprecedented national summit on torture sponsored by 15 diverse faith groups will convene on Mercer’s Atlanta campus Sept. 11-12 to examine how U.S. government policy in recent years came to sanction torture and discuss ways Evangelical Christians and Americans of other faiths can mobilize to secure a “no torture-no exceptions” policy. [more]

Mercer Welcomes Islamic Scholar to Campus to Help Raise Understanding, Build Study of Islamic World into Curriculum

Mercer University is hosting a Fulbright Scholar over the coming weeks as part of its efforts to foster a greater understanding of the Muslim world, both inside and outside the University. The scholar will also help the University to infuse its curriculum with a greater emphasis on, and understanding of, the Muslim world. [more]

Former U.S. President to Deliver Second Mercer President’s Lecture

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will deliver Mercer’s second President’s Lecture Series address on the Macon campus Oct. 23 at 3 p.m. The address, which will cover themes from President Carter’s best-selling book, Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis, will be held in Willingham Auditorium. [more]

School of Medicine Welcomes Inaugural Class to Savannah Campus

Aug. 17 was an historic day for Mercer, Memorial University Medical Center, the city of Savannah and the state of Georgia. Thirty first-year medical students received their white coats and began their education as members of the inaugural class in Mercer’s new four-year medical program in Savannah. The White Coat Ceremony, which symbolizes that a doctor should “care” as well as “cure,” was held in the Mercer Auditorium of the Hoskins Center for Biomedical Research on the Memorial campus. [more]

Senior Leadership Features Changes in Advancement, Provost's Office, Admissions and Administration

A number of changes to top administrative posts went into effect with the new fiscal year on July 1. In addition to reorganizing external affairs functions, Mercer President William D. Underwood appointed several new administrators, including a new provost, new senior vice president for enrollment management, a senior vice provost for service-learning, and a senior associate vice president – Atlanta. [more]

Mercer School of Medicine Awarded Largest One-time Grant by NIH to Study Community-Based Diabetes Prevention

The School of Medicine, which last year celebrated its 25th anniversary, has been awarded the largest one-time grant in the history of the school. The National Institutes of Health will provide the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine with $3.1 million to conduct a five-year study of the Church-Based Diabetes Prevention and Translation program. [more]

Medicine Educator Tapped by CDC and Indian Health Service to Develop Youth Program

Thanks to the previous success of an HIV prevention program developed in a rural Georgia school system, Mike Smith, Ph.D., has been tapped by the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to lead in the development of a similar program for Native American youth in the western U.S. [more]

New Programs Launched in Education, Business and Counseling

The beginning of the fall semester marked the beginning of several new degree programs, as well as the expansion of several others. The Tift College of Education expanded its programs, while the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics and the College of Continuing and Professional Studies added to their offerings. [more]

‘Supersized’ Entertainment Coming to The Grand

Just in time for Halloween, the Stephen Sondheim musical thriller “Sweeney Todd” will open The Grand Opera House’s “supersized” 2008-2009 season with two performances on Sunday, Oct. 12. The musical that inspired the Tim Burton and Johnny Depp movie of the same name is the first of seven nationally touring shows in the 2008-2009 Broadway Series at The Grand, a performing arts center of Mercer University. [more]

Mercer Ranked Among Top 10 Schools in the South for 10th Consecutive Year

or the 10th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Mercer among the top 10 comprehensive universities in the South. Mercer is ranked No. 8 in the South in the 2009 “Best Universities-Master’s” category. The University has been ranked in the top 15 in that category for 19 consecutive years. [more]

Anti-Human Trafficking Advocate to Speak at John James Lecture

Surgeon and anti-human trafficking advocate, Professor the Lord McColl of Dulwich CBE, will present “Human Trafficking – A World-Wide Problem” at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the Eighth Annual John E. James Distinguished Lecture. The presentation will take place in the Moot Court Room of Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law in Macon. [more]

Mercer Lecture Series To Examine National Identity, Immigration

The 10th Annual College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series, which begins in September, will center on the theme of “National Identity and the Future of Democracy: Immigration and its Consequences.” The Department of Political Science is sponsoring the six-lecture series, which will feature professors from inside and outside of Mercer speaking on a diverse array of topics related to the theme. [more]

Townsend School of Music Offers First-Class, Free Performing Arts Events

Patrons of the performing arts on a tight budget this season need not look any further than the Calendar of Concerts of Mercer’s Townsend School of Music. The Music School, including the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, kicks off the 2008-2009 academic year with a lineup of events that are always top-quality and often free. [more]

American Baptist Historical Society to Hold ‘Grand-Reopening’ Sept. 27

Nearly two years to the day after announcing it would be relocating and consolidating its vast archives of Baptist historical material to Mercer’s Atlanta campus, the American Baptist Historical Society will celebrate the completion of its move. The ABHS is celebrating “the Dedication and Grand Re-Opening Celebration” of the Archives Center and American Baptist-Samuel Colgate Historical Library on Saturday, Sept. 27, on Mercer’s Atlanta campus. [more]

Down Payment Grants Still Available for Intown Home Purchases

A few Down Payment Assistance Program grants are still available for faculty and staff who purchase qualified homes in the Intown Macon historic district. The program, which is jointly funded by Mercer and the Knight Foundation, provides grants of up to $20,000 that come in the form of mortgages, forgivable over the first five years the resident lives in the home. [more]

University Relations and Marketing Reorganized as Marketing Communications

As part of President Underwood’s reorganization of external affairs, University Relations and Marketing has been established as a separate division from University Advancement and renamed Marketing Communications. It is now under the direction of Larry D. Brumley, senior vice president for Marketing Communications and chief of staff. [more]

Mercer Professors Attend National Political Conventions

Two Mercer professors stopped in on the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. David Gushee, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, was a panelist for a discussion on faith at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28 in Denver, Colo. Gregory Domin, Ph.D., an associate professor of political science, is leading a group of students in a seminar course during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., from Aug. 24-Sept. 5. [more]

Men’s, Women’s Soccer and Volleyball Highlight Athletic Action for Fall

With the beginning of a new academic year also comes the return of Mercer student-athletes to the courts and fields in their respective venues. First to get under way for 2008-09 was competition involving men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball. [more]

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