The Mercer School of Medicine welcomed in its first year students over the weekend, including its second first-year class on the Savannah campus, which drew attention to the School from the Savannah Morning News.
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Mercer economics professor and director of the China Research Center, Dr. Penelope Prime, was quoted in a recent article on GlobalAtlanta.com about Atlanta architecture firms doing business in China. Dr. Prime weighed in on the possibilities of a real estate bubble in China, and it’s potential impact on the country’s social and income structures.
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The University honored longtime arts supporter Neva Langley Fickling at its Macon commencement ceremony on May 14. President William D. Underwood presented the former Miss America with an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree for her work on behalf of the arts in Georgia, the Macon community and her support of Mercer’s music programs. The Macon Telegraph covered the honor, and the ceremony, in which 500 Mercerians graduated.
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A recent heart surgery by Dr. Ahmed Ijaz Shah, an assistant professor in the School of Medicine, drew coverage from The Macon Telegraph. It was the first time in Middle Georgia that a Ventrical Assist Device had been placed in a patient without open-heart surgery. Dr. Shah and cardiac surgeon Dr. Fady Wanna, of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgery Associates, performed the procedure at the Medical Center of Central Georgia.
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The announcement of the first dean of Mercer’s Savannah campus, Dr. T. Philip Malan Jr., drew interest and coverage from the Savannah media. Dr. Malan will begin serving as dean of the Savannah campus and vice-dean of the School of Medicine on July 1.
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The Newnan Times-Herald covered a recent announcement by Mercer that the University would expand two graduate programs to the city. The Tift College of Education will bring a Master of Education program to Mercer’s new regional academic center there this May and the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics will add its Professional Master of Business Administration program there this fall.
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The visit to Mercer’s Macon campus by Danish Ambassador to the United States, Peter Taksoe-Jensen, drew coverage from GlobalAtlanta.com. Taksoe-Jensen will speak March 1 about his country’s push to use renewable energy to become energy independent.
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The New York Times reviewed Mercer English professor Dr. Anya Silver’s poetry collection, The Ninety-Third Name of God, in its Books of the Times column on Feb. 9. The reviewers praised Silver’s “bittersweet” book.
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Georgia Trend magazine featured Mercer’s MBA programs in a story about MBAs and the tough economy.
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