Mercer students, faculty, staff, and community partners are invited to the 2026 Visionary Student Panel Showcase. On Wednesday, March 18, at 6:00 p.m. in Willet Auditorium, an exceptional cohort of student changemakers will present 12 visionary ideas designed to create meaningful impact on Mercer’s campus and in the Macon community. The Center for Engaged Learning invites you to hear their five-minute pitches, engage with their ideas, and celebrate student leadership in action. Learn more about this year’s VSP projects at…

This is the second in a series of Tech Talks sponsored by the Computer Science Department entitled "AI: Friend and Foe.” It is about the rise of the AI revolution, and the best and worse use of AI chatbots, Agentic Agents and AI powered tools both in academics and in the workplace and the pros and cons of AI.  Some of the Pros include the use of AI in early cancer detection, and vaccine research, its productivity gains in the…

Dr. Corey Moss-Pech, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University whose research sits at the intersection of higher education and the labor market, will come to Macon campus to discuss his recent research book "Major Trade-Offs: The Surprising Truths about College Majors and Entry-level Jobs," published in 2025 by the Chicago University Press. In this book, Dr. Moss-Pech argues that not only do humanities majors learn real-world skills, but they actually use them when they graduate. But graduates with…