If you’ve been to a baseball game at Mercer University, odds are that at some point you encountered Mercer University’s Marketing Research class. The Marketing Research class is a yearlong class designed to expose students to a variety of marketing techniques, as well as giving them the opportunity ...
Four Mercer students recently traveled to the U.N. headquarters in New York and the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 21 through 24 as part of a cultural diplomacy conference through the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy. The Academy for Cultural Diplomacy is part of the Institute for Cultural ...
On Feb. 10, the Mercer University Student Government Association sponsored a series of charter buses for Mercer students to attend the Mercer vs. Kennesaw State men’s basketball game at Kennesaw State. They also purchased enough tickets for over a hundred students to attend. The goal was to provide ...
Fox News Contributor Juan Williams was the guest speaker at this year’s Executive Forum, held Tuesday night in the President’s Dining Room. Williams has spanned the field of journalism, working as a columnist for The Washington Post, a senior national correspondent for National Public Radio and ...
On the Monday before Valentine’s Day, QuadWorks organized the annual Boo Bears event. This is a time designed to allow Mercer students to create a stuffed animal of their choice at no cost. A great part about planning the Boo Bears on Feb. 13, is it gives students a chance to make something cute ...
Students Chelsea Flieger and Garret McDowell were commended for their dedication to the LEAP community service program by receiving their acceptance letters to Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) on Feb. 9. CGIU is a national leadership conference that is hosted once a year. This year the conference ...
According to a recent poll conducted by “Young Puns”, a political commentary show on MERCER 99, and The Cluster, Sophomore Senator Dalton Turner currently leads fellow Sophomore Senator Mollie Davis by six percent as a potential SGA presidential candidate. The poll was conducted between Feb. 2 and ...
Hardman Hall recently displayed a showing titled, “Looking for Magic.” It contained both paintings and prints. These were the works of Christopher Hocking, associate director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. He is currently the chair of both the drawing and painting ...
The Mercer Chapter of Habitat for Humanity received two national grants from State Farm to contribute to their annual Mercer Build. “The grant was worth five thousand dollars, if we are able to raise that much then will receive the matching amount. That will be a total of ten thousand dollars to ...
Mercer University recently hosted a job search event for students who are looking for assistance in finding part-time or full-time work. There are two kinds of Mercer job seekers. One type is looking for part-time jobs during the semester or during the summer which will be called Type I, and the other ...
The Mercer Opera performed Mozart’s Idomeneo beginning Thursday, Feb. 2, and lasting until Saturday Feb. 4 at Neva Langly Fickling Hall in the McCorkle Music Building.Dr. Richard Kosowski directed Idomeneo, which was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s first major operatic success.Dr. Richard Young conducted ...
January 25’s special election for Mercer’s Student Government Association featured a hotly contested battle for one Senator-at-Large spot and three Junior Class Senator spots. After a few good solid days of campaigning on the sidewalks of Mercer and the Facebooks of its students, Eric Ennuson won ...
On Jan. 11, Mercer University anounced that Mercer will be joining 24 institutions across the country as a participant in the prestigious Stamps Scholars Program, funded by the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Inc.The Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Inc. is composed of E. Roe Stamps IV and his ...
Toby Bear will be competing at the National Cheerleading Association’s Mascot Competition April 14 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Toby was ranked number one among all of the mascots who submitted a qualification video. Some mascots received a bid to the competition through auditioning at the National Cheerleading ...
Mercer’s Student Government Association unanimously approved legislation to contribute $2,500 to place new recycling bins on campus. Students for Environmental Action (SEA) requested the money from SGA’s special funding account. SEA originally requested $7,875 from special funding, enough to purchase ...
While the majority of Mercer students were returning to classes in Macon, four Seniors from Mercer’s Honors Program were attending the 10th annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities in Waikiki, a neighborhood of Honolulu, HI. Mercer’s Honors Program sponsored four students, ...
Track The Trolley is back this semester as a resource for students to use. As of January 16, the popular program that allows students to get a startlingly accurate readout of the trolley’s location is back in full swing at Mercer. The revival of the program brings to our attention some attractive ...
January 12 saw Mercer favorites The Dirty Sound Professors and The Tarlatans from South Carolina pack the house at The Hummingbird Stage & Taproom for Dance Marathon and Children’s Miracle Network. While it was a free show, Dance Marathon received donations at the door. After all was said and ...
Last week, Dr. Chris Grant’s Presidential Primaries and the Media class traveled to South Carolina to follow GOP candidates around the state in preparation for Saturday’s primary. The week proved to be one of the most transformational in the race so far, with the suspension of Rick Perry's campaign, ...
*Updated January 26, 2012 At the close of fall semester, Mercer President William Underwood announced an effort sponsored by the Knight Foundation to bring together professional journalists and students in a joint newsroom in College Hill Corridor. A $4.6 million grant from the John S. and James L. ...
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