http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:37:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en USA Today, one of the countries largest newspapers, featured Mercer in its latest coverage of NSSE, the National Survey of Student Engagement. The story highlighted Mercer students engagement in new learning communities. To read the story, go>. http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=644 Dr. John Wright, a Mercer psychology professor and one of the nation's foremost experts on animal behavior, was quoted in a recent MSNBC.com article about unlikely animal pairs. To read the story, go>. http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=640 The Associated Baptist Press covered Mercer's recent conference, "Caring for Creation: A Scientific and Theological Response." The story focused on the presentations by Dr. David Gushee, Mercer's Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Jonathan Merritt, author of the forthcoming book Green Like God, and their talks on swaying the ... http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=638 Mercer's groundbreaking conference on faith, science and the environment, "Caring for Creation: A Scientific and Theological Response," begins Oct. 29, and concludes Oct. 31 with a green day of service. The conference, and its topic, caring for God's Creation, are drawing a lot of buzz ahead of the event. In ... http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=635 Mercer On Mission's trip to Vietnam to deliver and fit Mercer-designed prosthetics to amputees there, as well as to treat hundreds of ailing patients drew media attention based on a presentation the trip's students and professor made Oct. 21. Dr. Ha Van Vo and eight of the 14 students who ... http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=629 Dick Vitale's visit to Mercer on Oct. 12 continues to draw media attention. Sporting News magazine's The Sporting Blog featured the YouTube video of Dick Vitale's press conference, which he made ahead of his presentation to Mercer's Executive Forum. In addition, Vitale conducted an interview with CBS Atlanta sports anchor ... http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=627 Video is now available of Dick Vitale's news conference in Macon. http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=619 Mercer's Four-Year Graduation Pledge garnered national attention once again, with CBSMoneywatch.com featuring the University's new program in a story Oct. 13 about colleges around the nation working to save students money in the current economic crisis. To read the story, go>. http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=615 Dick Vitale, hall-of-fame commentator and "the voice of college basketball," spoke at Mercer's Executive Forum presented by BB&T on Oct. 12 ahead of basketball season. Vitale spoke in Atlanta and Macon at events co-sponsored by the Mercer Athletic Foundation. The events drew media attention in both Macon and Atlanta. The ... http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=612 Mercer's Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics Dr. David Gushee, penned a column for USA Today, the nation's largest newspaper, in the Sept. 28 edition. The op-ed "What Roe Started" focuses on finding the theology of common ground and moving away from the current state of demonization in political and ... http://blogs.mercer.edu/inthenews/?p=608