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SUMMARY:Macon Periods Easier Mercer Giveback Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Macon Periods Easier Mercer Giveback Challenge is a philanthropic event sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to help combat Period Poverty in Macon-Bibb county during Women’s History Month. The challenge will begin on March 1 and conclude on March 31\, 2021\, at 4 p.m. A collection box will be on the outside of the Diversity and Inclusion Office in Connell Student Center Room 210\, Macon Campus. If you donate from another campus\, please place items in campus mail and send to the DII office. Items to be donated include menstrual hygiene products: pads\, panty liners\, flushable wipes\, and reusable small make-up bags or plastic sandwich-sized bags. Anyone can collect and donate.
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/macon-periods-easier-mercer-giveback-challenge/
LOCATION:Connell Student Center Lobby\, Macon\, GA
CATEGORIES:Alumni
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SUMMARY:Zeta Week: Zetawood
DESCRIPTION:March 21-27\, 2021\, The Oh So Marvelous Omega Mu chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority\, Inc. will be hosting events everyday\, with each event relating to a popular African American directed/starring film.\nAdditionally\, when you come to three events\, you’ll automatically be entered to win a gift basket! \nCheck out our instagram : @mercerzetas\, for more details on events!
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/zeta-week-zetawood/
LOCATION:GA
CATEGORIES:Student
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Lester Lectures: William D. Adams
DESCRIPTION:The Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Zeta Chapter of Georgia at Mercer University will host the fourth annual Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life this spring. \nDr. William D. Adams\, former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)\, will present three lectures on the theme “Getting Ready: The Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Post-Pandemic World” March 25-26. The lectures will be livestreamed at http://pbk.mercer.edu/. \nDr. Adams’ opening lecture is titled “Work Readiness” and will take place March 25 at 11 a.m. It will be followed by “Participation Readiness” March 25 at 5:30 p.m. and “Meaning Readiness” March 26 at 11 a.m. \nDr. Adams served as the 10th chair of NEH from 2014-2017. In that capacity\, he initiated several new grantmaking programs under the banner of “The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square.” After leaving NEH\, he was named a Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, where he continued his national advocacy on behalf of the humanities. \nDr. Adams previously served as president of Colby College from 2000-2014\, president of Bucknell University from 1995-2000 and vice president and secretary of Wesleyan University from 1989-1995. He taught political philosophy at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, and at Santa Clara University. He also coordinated the Great Works in Western Culture Program at Stanford University. \nHe earned his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and his B.A. in philosophy from Colorado College. He is currently working on a book about the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the painter Paul Cézanne.
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/malcolm-lester-lectures-william-d-adams/2021-03-25/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Academics
ORGANIZER;CN="David%20Davis":MAILTO:davis_da@mercer.edu
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SUMMARY:Online Conference on Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Problems
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 25\n1:00 President’s Address: Rosalind Simson (Mercer University)\, “Reconceptualizing Abortion Rights”\n2:00 Session 1: “Algorithms in Society”\n3:20 Session 2: “Assorted Societal Challenges”\nFriday March 26\n1:00 Session 3: “Philosophy and Technology”\n2:20 Session 4: “Pandemic Philosophy”\n3:40 Session 5: “Philosophical Approaches to Climate and Environment”
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/online-conference-on-philosophical-perspectives-on-contemporary-problems/2021-03-25/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Academics
ORGANIZER;CN="Mercer%20Philosophy":MAILTO:rosental_c@mercer.edu
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SUMMARY:Teach Yourself How to Learn!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to this free workshop that includes brain games and instructions for creating brief\, intensive study sessions. In Dr. McGuire’s own words (from her book\, Teach Students How to Learn\, 2015\, p. xv)\, “Often\, teaching students how to learn can be accomplished in one session\, in as little as 50 minutes….They can be transformed\, in one session\, from memorizers and regurgitators to students who begin to think critically and take responsibility for their own learning.”
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/teach-yourself-how-to-learn-2/
LOCATION:Academic Resource Center\, Ryals Hall\, Rooms 111 and 101\, 1501 Mercer University Drive\, Macon\, 31207
CATEGORIES:Academics
ORGANIZER;CN="Academic%20Resource%20Center":MAILTO:arc@mercer.edu
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SUMMARY:Adult Undergraduate: Psychology Program Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Mercer University continues to offer innovative bachelor’s degree programs that connect you to opportunities in today’s workplace. Our programs are designed for working adult students making it possible for you to manage the important things in life while pursuing a degree in any one of our industry-focused programs. Please join Mercer’s Office of University Admissions to learn how our evening\, weekend\, and online curriculum can help you achieve your educational goals!
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/adult-undergraduate-psychology-program-webinar-17/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Admissions - Working Adults Undergraduate
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tamika%20Day":MAILTO:day_tc@mercer.edu
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SUMMARY:Tri Beta Spring 2021 Micro Biology & Imunology Talk by Dr. Jessica Hargarten
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Jessica C Hargarten\n(Postdoctoral Fellow NIAID\, NIH) will give a talk entitled: \n“From Bedside to Bench and Back Again: Uncovering Human Genetic Susceptibilities to Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis” \nDr. Hargarten received her BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California\, Davis in 2009 and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Nebraska\, Lincoln in 2016 under the mentorship of Dr. Audrey L. Atkin. She joined the lab of Peter R. Williamson\, MD/PhD at the National Institutes of Health as a post-doctoral IRTA fellow. As a postdoc in the Translational Mycology Section in the Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology at the NIAID\, her research project focuses on understanding how rare genetic variants increase the susceptibility of previously healthy people to fungal infections\, particularly those caused by the neurotropic pathogen Cryptococcus
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/tri-beta-spring-2021-micro-biology-imunology-talk-by-dr-jessica-hargarten/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Anne%20Sanders%20%28Department%20of%20Biology%29":MAILTO:sanders_am@mercer.edu
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