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 religious discourse stemming from Roe v. Wade.
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The Associated Baptist Press featured a story on a McAfee School of Theology lecture on its Web site on Sept. 17. The ABP ran a story on the lecture of Dr. Robert J. Russell, a scientist and theologian who gave the second annual D. Perry and Betty Ginn Lecture on Christian Faith and Modern Science.
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The Sept. 15 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution included an opinion piece by Mercer Medical School Dean Dr. William Bina, advocating for increases in the number of doctors, and a re-emphasis on primary care, as a way to reform health care.
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The Macon Telegraph featured a story on Mercer engineering student and budding rapper Julius “Young R” Wilson, who pinned a song that will be included on a new release by national recording artists Huey and Lil Wayne. The story appeared in the Sept. 15 edition of the paper.
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Mercer Medical School Dean Dr. William Bina wrote an op-ed piece in the Savannah Morning News about the need for increased primary care as a part of the debate on health care reform, which was published Sept. 9. Also on Sept. 9, WTOC TV interviewed medical students at Mercer’s Savannah campus about the proposed reforms.
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Dr. Chester J. Fontenot Jr., director of Mercer’s Africana Studies Program, was featured in The New York Times in a May 3 story about the change race relations following the election of President Barack Obama.
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