Graduate Student Research Accomplishments
Mercer Ph.D. Student Selected for National Health Service Corps
Yvette Gates, a doctoral candidate in Mercer University’s Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision Program, has been selected to participate in the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ National Health Service Corps. More >
Mercer Ph.D. Graduate Wins Outstanding Research Award
Georgia Baptist College of Nursing Chapter Garners Awards
at the Georgia Association of Nursing Students Convention
Mercer University’s Georgia Baptist College of Nursing had an impressive showing at the Georgia Association of Nursing Students’ 59th Annual Convention in Athens Oct. 13-15. The College’s student chapter received the Financial Excellence Award and Best Web Site Award and won the Penny Wars Competition. In addition, Jill Ray, clinical assistant professor at the College, received the Advisor of the Year Award and Elaine Harris, clinical associate professor, was the keynote speaker for the event. More >
Mercer Ph.D. Student Selected as an ASCD Emerging Leader
Torian White, a candidate in Mercer University’s Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction 2013 cohort, was recently selected as an Emerging Leader by the Association for Supervised and Curriculum Development. He is one of only 36 selected from a large pool of students from around the world. More >Mercer PA Team Wins 1st Place in National Medical Challenge Bowl
A three-member team of students in the Physician Assistant Studies program in Mercer University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences captured first place in a national medical challenge bowl held at an annual physician assistants conference in Las Vegas. More >
Mercer’s Crisp Earns Fellowship to Study for Ph.D. at Florida State
Recent Mercer University graduate Alice Crisp, of Tyrone, has earned a prestigious fellowship to study at Florida State University and earn a Ph.D. in economics. FSU has awarded Crisp the Charles G. Koch Fellowship to pay for her education. Last month, she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Mercer’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics. She was also named the winner of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, one of the University’s elite awards for undergraduates. More >
Mercer’s Brogdon Honored as Georgia’s Counseling Student of the Year
Mercer University’s C. Jonathan Brogdon was recently honored as the outstanding counseling student within the state of Georgia by the Licensed Professional Counselor Association of Georgia. Brogdon was presented with the award at the 23rd Annual LPCA Convention last month in Savannah. More >
Mercer Law School Team Wins Buffalo Moot Court Competition
A team from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law won the Buffalo Criminal Law Society’s 13th Annual Herbert Wechsler Moot Court Competition, held April 2 at the Buffalo City Court courthouse in downtown Buffalo, N.Y. More >Pharmacy Student First Runner Up for Best Student Post
Risa Hiroshima (Pharm.D. class of 2012) was awarded 1st Runner Up for the Best Student Poster at the recent 2010 American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, on Monday, October 18, 2010. Risa was one of the 7 finalists selected for judging out of 42 submissions. Risa is a former summer research student of Dr. Vanthida Huang from 2009. She is the second student from the summer research program who has been selected as a finalist: the first student was Sonya Chhatwal (Sonya Chhatwal Martin) who won the Best Student Poster in 2007.
Mercer Physician Assistant Students Bring Awareness of the Profession during PA Week, Oct. 6-12, 2010
With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, physician assistants are poised to help address the primary care provider shortage and deliver quality health care to the approximately 32 million new patients with access to health care services. Mercer University physician assistant students raised awareness of their profession to highlight its impact as part of National PA Week, Oct. 6-12, 2010. The week is dedicated to helping recognize the contributions of PAs locally and nationally in providing quality patient care. More >
Mercer Student-Led Team Headed to Haiti for Medical Mission
A mission team led by students from Mercer University’s School of Medicine travelled to Haiti in July 2010 to set up and operate a mobile medical clinic at several orphanages in Haiti, a country that was ravaged by an earthquake earlier this year. The mission team included 12 medical students as well as Mercer faculty and will include medical and non-medical personnel from Macon and surrounding areas. More >
Mercer Medical Student Awarded Research Fellowship
Shabnam Nourparvar, who just completed her first year at the Mercer University School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2010 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
The fellowship provides $5,000 to support her research from June through December working with sponsors Dr. John Boltri and Dr. Monique Davis-Smith of the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine on the FAITH Works project: Families Actively Improving Their Health Works. Read the complete story.
Pharmacy Students Selected for National Internship Program
Melissa Denno and Destin Sampson, both third-year Doctor of Pharmacy students in Mercer University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, have been selected for prestigious summer internships sponsored by the Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy (FMCP) in collaboration with the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP). Denno and Sampson were among 12 students interviewed from a national applicant pool for the highly competitive internships and ended up taking both slots — the first time the internships have gone to students from the same institution. More >
Mercer Law Moot Court Team Sweeps National Advocacy Competition
The Walter F. George School of Law's Moot Court Team won the "National Moot Court Competition" championship, as well as “Best Respondent’s Brief” and “Best Oralist.” In the closing rounds, the team, comprised of third-year law students Falen Cox and Emily Macheski-Preston, defeated law school teams from the University of Florida (quarterfinals), DePaul University (semifinals) and Florida Coastal (finals). More >
Pharmacy’s Kappa Psi Chapter Named National Chapter of the Year
At the 2009 Kappa Psi National Pharmacy Fraternity Grand Council Convention in Orlando, Mercer University’s Gamma Psi Chapter and its members received multiple awards. For the first time in its history, Mercer’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences chapter was recognized at the Top Collegiate Chapter in the nation. More >
AFPE Awards 2 Mercer Pharmacy Students
The Board of Directors and Board of Grants of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education have approved pharmaceutical science education awards totaling $375,000 to fifty-four Pharm.D. degree students, Ph.D. degree pharmaceutical science graduate students, and pharmacy faculty researchers at twenty-eight schools & colleges of pharmacy during the 2009-2010 academic year. More >
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Pharmacy Students Receive AFPE Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Delaram Moshkelani and Rebecca L. Neal are two of the recipients of the prestigious 2009 AFPE (American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education) Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Science awards. The primary goal of the AFPE Fellowship program is to identify and support those students who have the potential to become leaders in the pharmaceutical profession. The selection process encompasses academic achievement (e.g., grades), as well as accomplishments that reflect the stature of the "total individual."
Mercer MSTCO Student's Publishes Her Research
Elizabeth Filippo took the capstone course in her Master of Science in Technical Communication (MSTCO) degree during the summer of 2008. In completing this course, she had the unique opportunity to apply research and theory to her workplace.
One of Filippo’s deliverables for the course, an article titled “The Road to Personas,” explains her findings. The article was recently published in the January 2009 issue of the Society for Technical Communication’s Intercom magazine. It details the journey involved in creating personas for the development group and the way the lessons learned in the process were passed on to make the project a success. More >
Master of Public Health Poster Research Day
Students enrolled in the Master of Public Health 792 research course presented their final projects as a part of Poster Research Day on April 3, 2009. Students are challenged to confront complex health issues, such as improving access to health care, controlling infectious disease, and reducing environmental hazards, violence, substance abuse, and injury.
The list of poster titles, participants, and photos are available. More >