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northeast Atlanta in 1991, enrollment Moye received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from Mercer in
has nearly doubled without seeing 1973. In 1977, he established Moye’s Pharmacy and Home Health Care, which
MOYE MAKES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR a significant increase in available
classrooms. The $20 million construction
today includes six community pharmacies and one durable medical equipment
store, along with a home health care division, which operates under the name
COMMITMENT TO FUND NEW project will provide 60,000 square feet of Mobility Warehouse.
COLLEGE OF
new teaching space, student study areas Through the years, Moye has been a loyal supporter of Mercer and the College
and faculty offices. of Pharmacy. He is a member of the Board of Trustees, currently serving his
“Mercer is very important to me. My fourth term and chairing the board’s Executive Committee. He also served on
experience at Mercer gave me a strong the College of Pharmacy’s Board of Visitors and its Alumni Association Board of
PHARMACY BUILDING
foundation for success in my profession, Directors, of which he served as president, and worked as a preceptor. In addition
and I am privileged to be able to make a to the endowed scholarship he established for deserving pharmacy students,
contribution that will continue to attract he and the current owner of Moye’s Pharmacy, Loren Pierce, who received his
and prepare future pharmacists and Pharm.D. degree from Mercer in 1991, also endowed the College’s Pharmacy
resident William D. Underwood recently announced a multimillion- who has been extraordinarily generous other health professionals for success,” Practice Laboratory.
dollar commitment to the University from Mercer College of Pharmacy in honoring the role Mercer played in Moye said. A native of Henry County, Tony is married to Nancy, a retired media specialist
alumnus William A. “Tony” Moye, retired pharmacist and founder of preparing him for success as a pharmacist,” “As I’ve become friends with Tony, for the Henry County public school system. Currently a member of the advisory
Moye’s Pharmacy in McDonough. said Underwood. “Tony’s gift demonstrates I’m inspired by his passion for Mercer, board of the south metro United Community Bank Board of Directors, Moye
The gift represents the largest financial contribution in the College’s his confidence in the College of Pharmacy, the College of Pharmacy, our student also received the Bowl of Hygeia national award from the American Pharmacists
history and will help fund the construction of a new building for the and I am grateful for his investment in the pharmacists and the profession,” said Association. The Moyes are members of McDonough Presbyterian Church and
College of Pharmacy and other health sciences programs on Mercer’s College’s future and the future generations Dr. Brian L. Crabtree, dean of the College affiliate members of First Presbyterian Church of Highlands, North Carolina.
Atlanta Campus. The new building will bear Moye’s name. of students who will benefit from a of Pharmacy and a 1980 graduate of In addition to his pharmacy degree from Mercer, he holds a Bachelor of Arts
“Tony Moye is a devoted alumnus and ardent supporter of Mercer pharmacy education at Mercer.” the College. “His gift will enable us to degree from the University of West Georgia, which he received in 1970.
Tony Moye, center,
with wife Nancy and
President William D.
Underwood at the
2018 Homecoming
football game,
played in Mercer’s
Five Star Stadium,
located in Moye
Athletic Complex.
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University of Texas, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Serving as Mercer’s project liaison to Riggs Ward is Jared Wright, who
interpretive exhibits researched and wrote the interpretive plan for Mercer Music at Capricorn®.
Mercer University Press offers a new season of at Mercer Music at Wright has previously worked as an archivist for the Otis Redding
books rich in Southern history, literary criticism, Capricorn®, which Foundation, the Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House and the
philosophy, religion and more. Highlighted the institution Atlanta History Center, and as a curator at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
titles include: Tales from Georgia’s Gnat Line is renovating into a multi-purpose music education, Wright has an undergraduate degree in history from Mercer and earned
by Larry Walker, a collection of essays on the production and tourism venue in downtown Macon. The his Master of Arts in history from the University of West Georgia with
South; “The Showy Town of Savannah”: The University is planning a Dec. 3 dedication, which will specialties in public history and museum studies.
Story of the Architect William Jay by John D. coincide with the 50th anniversary of the founding of More information on Mercer Music at Capricorn® is available at
Capricorn Records and the Allman Brothers Band. capricorn.mercer.edu.
Duncan and Sandra L. Underwood, a biography
The University’s vision is to put the historic Capricorn
of an Englishman and his influence on the early
Sound Studios in downtown Macon — credited by many as
19th-century South; Power and the People: the birthplace of Southern Rock — back to work, not as just
Thucydides’s History and the American a museum, but as a tool to advance a more vibrant music
Founding, a collection of essays from the 2017 scene in Macon and leverage Macon’s music
Proposed entrance murals
A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and heritage to shape Macon’s music future. by Riggs Ward Design
Ideas at Mercer University, edited by Mercer Mercer Music at Capricorn® will feature
professor Charlotte C.S. Thomas; When Fiction a two-story interpretive area that tells the
and Philosophy Meet: A Conversation with story of Capricorn Records and Macon’s
Flannery O’Connor and Simone Weil by E. Jane music heritage through historic artifacts,
Doering and Ruthann Knechel Johansen, a cross- static exhibits and interactive digital kiosks
featuring photos, music, video and other
disciplinary study of the intersecting thought of
memorabilia.
a French philosopher and an American fiction
Capricorn Sound Studios is most closely
writer; Your Autobiography by Kelly Cherry, associated with the Allman Brothers Band,
poetry which takes the reader on a journey of which recorded significant portions of three
self-introspection and self-examination; and albums there, as well as Gregg Allman’s
Florida Explored: The Philadelphia Connection solo album Laid Back in 1973 and Dickey
in Bartram’s Tracks by Thomas Peter Bennett, a Betts’s solo album Highway Call in 1974.
group biography of the most eminent American Others who recorded at Capricorn include
natural scientists of the 19th century who the Marshall Tucker Band, the Charlie
discovered and collected unknown plants, Daniels Band, Wet Willie and Elvin Bishop.
animals, fossils and artifacts of ancient peoples. In addition to more than 1,200 square
feet of static and digital interactive exhibits,
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Mercer Music at Capricorn® will feature a
listing of titles or to download a catalog. Books
music incubator with 13 rehearsal spaces
are available from your favorite independent for aspiring young musicians; a restored
bookstore, major online retailer or wherever fine historic recording studio and an additional,
books are sold. Order from Mercer University larger recording studio; offices, co-working
Press directly and receive a 40-percent Mercer space and conference rooms for nonprofit
alumni discount by calling (478) 301-2880. arts organizations; and venues for small
Shipping charges and taxes will apply. concerts and special events. Mercer Music
at Capricorn® will also offer educational
programs through Mercer’s Townsend
School of Music.
Over the past 20 years, Riggs Ward Design
has provided exhibition and interactive
design, strategic master planning, research,
content analysis and storyline development
for established, new and emerging museums,
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MERCER, ROBINS AIR FORCE “Those of us who wear the uniform have the
privilege of being stationed at different places across
a cohort-based Master of Business Administration
degree program specifically for engineering and DR. THOMAS KOBALLA APPOINTED
BASE RENEW EDUCATIONAL the country, and I can guarantee you that Educational
Partnership Agreements are signed all over,” said Brig.
technical management coded positions at the WRALC.
The program is still operating today, and more
DEAN OF TIFT COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION
M
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Gen. John C. Kubenic, commander of Warner Robins than 100 MBA degrees have been awarded since
Air Logistics Complex. “But I would venture to say its inception.
D
that we don’t have these kinds of elected officials and Mercer’s Penfield College, which serves post-
ercer and Robins Air Force Base held a senior leaders in the community who want to come out traditional learners, is currently providing leadership r. Thomas R. Koballa Jr.,
formal signing ceremony in September on and be a part of a signing ceremony like this. That’s training to the 78th Air Base Wing’s (ABW) Comptroller currently dean of Georgia
the University’s Macon campus to renew how special this relationship between the Air Force and Squadron with plans to expand to other functional Southern University’s
their existing Educational Partnership Mercer is to Middle Georgia and how important Robins areas of the ABW. College of Education,
Agreement. Air Force Base is to the DNA of Middle Georgia.” The Department of Computer Science in Mercer’s has been appointed dean
“This partnership is central to the In 1983, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center College of Liberal Arts and the Mercer Innovation of Mercer’s Tift College of Education,
University’s mission of preparing men (WRALC) Commander Maj. Gen. Cornelius “Newt” Center are aiding in the development of a new Air Force effective July 1.
and women for lives of service,” said Nugteren and Mercer’s then-President Dr. R. Kirby Innovation Hub at the base. “Tom has a long history, both as a
President William D. Underwood. “We Godsey developed a plan to remedy a shortage of “We envision vast new opportunities for department chair and dean, of building
are especially proud to partner with an organization committed to defending not engineers on base by providing a local source of collaboration, and we’re building on a strong teacher education programs that meet the
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only our lives and engineers and engineering research. foundation as this partnership grows and develops,” needs of a constantly evolving classroom,”
property, but defending Mercer and the Greater Macon Chamber of said Dr. Penny Elkins, senior vice president for said Mercer Provost Dr. D. Scott Davis.
the timeless ideals on Commerce jointly sponsored a five-month study enrollment management at Mercer. “We really envision “Among his strengths are student success
which this nation is
founded, the ideals WE ARE ESPECIALLY PROUD TO PARTNER of current and projected needs for various types
of engineers. The results supported Nugteren’s
here a national model of collaboration between an
institute of higher education and a military installation.”
and faculty development, which are both
critically important to an institution like
that have sustained us
as a people for more
WITH AN ORGANIZATION COMMITTED view that the region did not have the educational “Mercer Engineering is synonymous with Robins Mercer. We are looking forward to his
leadership of our College of Education.”
than 200 years.” TO DEFENDING NOT ONLY OUR LIVES programs to meet the needs of the base, nor
the needs of other industries targeted for
Engineering,” added Thomas M. Fischer, director of
engineering and technical management/services for Dr. Koballa has served as dean
The working
relationship between
AND PROPERTY, BUT DEFENDING THE economic development.
In December 1984, Mercer’s Board of Trustees
the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and a member of
and professor of education at Georgia
Southern since 2010, following faculty
the two entities TIMELESS IDEALS ON WHICH THIS approved plans for an engineering school, and the Mercer’s National Engineering Advisory Board. “A and administrative appointments at the
NATION IS FOUNDED.
’’
predates the founding University welcomed its first class of engineering graduate of Mercer Engineering is technically ready University of Georgia and the University of Texas at Austin for the previous 28 years.
of Mercer’s School students in the fall of 1985. Less than two years later, to join the workforce on the first day, ready to join His teaching and research interests focus on science teacher learning and mentoring.
of Engineering in Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC), the the engineering profession, is a leader dedicated to Dr. Koballa earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a specialization
1985. More than three applied engineering and research arm of the University, a life of service, mission-focused, innovative, and in science education from Pennsylvania State University. He also holds a Master of
decades later, this opened in Warner Robins. inspires and grows others. That’s the kind of people we Education in science education and a Bachelor of Science in biology, both from East
renewal agreement seeks to establish the partnership between the University and To date, Mercer has awarded more than 2,000 want to hire.” Carolina University. Additionally, he participated in the Institute for Management
Robins Air Force Base as the model for collaboration between a higher education degrees to engineers in a variety of fields, and MERC In addition to the signing of the renewal agreement, and Leadership in Education at Harvard University.
institution and a military installation. has received nearly $500 million in contracts, including the University unveiled a portrait of Nugteren that His early-career research on science educators’ attitudes led to better
support for 20 different will be displayed in the lobby of the Science and understandings of the relationship between educators’ dispositions and their
models of U.S. Air Engineering Building. classroom practice. More recently, his research has involved greater collaboration
Force aircraft and one “As we reflect upon the relationship between with preschool-through-12th-grade school and community partners and university
Navy submarine. Mercer and Robins, I am convinced that no person, no faculty in a host of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
The School of commander, no leader contributed more forcefully to disciplines. It has expanded to include investigations of educator mentoring,
Engineering has the transformation of that relationship than Maj. Gen. examinations of the influence of case-based pedagogy and studies of conference
provided more entry- Cornelius Nugteren,” said Dr. Godsey, who currently participation on the thinking and practice of STEM educators.
level engineers to serves as University chancellor. “In every respect, Newt Dr. Koballa is past president of the National Association for Research in
Robins Air Force was a game-changing leader, a make-things-happen sort Science Teaching, former president of the Georgia Association of Colleges
Base than any other of individual.” for Teacher Education and a recipient of the Association of Science Teacher
school, and nearly Nugteren died Aug. 24, 2017, at the age of 89, Education’s Outstanding Mentoring Award. He also holds membership in the
half of the School’s following a distinguished military career of nearly American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Educational
living alumni reside in four decades that included his tenure as commander Research Association, National Science Teachers Association and Georgia Science
PHOTO COURTESY OF GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
Middle Georgia. of WRALC from 1982 to 1988 and his vital role in Teachers Association.
Currently, the establishing the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins His work has been published in refereed journals such as the Journal of
relationship between and Mercer’s School of Engineering in Macon. Research in Science Teaching, the International Journal of Science Education and
Mercer and Robins Air He served on the University’s National Engineering the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. He has authored and edited numerous
Force Base goes well Advisory Board (NEAB) and was named a NEAB Fellow books and textbooks, and published chapters in multiple books, including the
CHRISTOPHER IAN SMITH PHOTO
Brig. Gen. John C. Kubenic (second from left), beyond the School of in 2001. In 2004, he was inducted into the Georgia Handbook of College Science Teaching and the Second International Handbook of
commander of Warner Robins Air Logistics Engineering and MERC. Aviation Hall of Fame, and he later received the Order Science Education.
Complex, signs a new Educational Partnership
Agreement with Mercer on Sept. 10 in LaTorre In 2012, Mercer’s of the Sword, bestowed on him by the men and women He served as principal investigator of the Georgia Teacher Quality Grants
Family Plaza on the Macon campus. Eugene W. Stetson of the enlisted corps. Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and has received additional
School of Business and Nugteren retired from military service in 1988 and external funding from organizations such as the National Science Foundation and
Economics launched later became senior adviser to MERC from 1996-2015. the Janet H. and C. Harry Knowles Foundation.
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are excited to support this group of incoming startups,” said Stephanie Howard, deputy
EDUCATION ANNOUNCE APPOINTED DEAN NEW FELLOWS, director of the Mercer Innovation Center. “One of the goals of the Mercer Innovation
Center is to help entrepreneurs launch sustainable businesses, which ultimately impacts
OF THE UNIVERSITY
NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR COMPANIES-IN-
the Macon-Bibb County economy.”
Z Beans Coffee, founded by Mercer alumnus Shane Buerster, is a micro-lot importer
LIBRARY
M ‘‘
of Ecuadorian coffee. The company’s mission is to create sustainable solutions for
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS RESIDENCE impoverished Ecuadorian
M
coffee farmers through fair
ercer and Shorelight Education held a formal ercer Innovation trade importation methods
signing ceremony in October to announce a Center (MIC) in August by creating an unmatched THIS YEAR’S POOL OF FELLOWSHIP
new partnership that will expand the number of
students from abroad pursuing undergraduate
announced its third
class of fellows — three
and unprecedented coffee
experience. It opened
APPLICANTS WAS THE MOST COMPETITIVE
and graduate degrees on the University’s Macon new businesses that will its first retail location in TO DATE, AND WE ARE EXCITED TO SUPPORT
THIS GROUP OF INCOMING STARTUPS.
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and Atlanta campuses. launch with funding Mercer Village last fall and
Mercer Global, a groundbreaking new and support from the MIC — in addition to four will be adding a second
partnership, will provide international students companies-in-residence that will be provided office retail location in downtown
the opportunity to pursue degrees at Mercer’s space and additional resources by the Center. Macon this year.
two major campuses and will offer the technology-enabled support services and These seven promising new and developing Send Mammogram, founded by Tillata Gibson, aspires to empower women with a
resources they need to thrive. companies will maintain operations in Macon, with mobile and website solution to request prior mammograms for comparison, before breast
The undergraduate accelerator program and postgraduate programs will expand the two relocating from Atlanta. cancer screening, anytime and anywhere. The company’s vision is to become the leading
D
University’s global footprint and its efforts to educate top students from around the world The annual Mercer Innovation Fellowships are online service for women to request prior mammograms and the leading enterprise
in a wide range of fields including science, technology, engineering, math and business. r. Jeffrey A. Waldrop, currently open to entrepreneurs, 18 and older, from across mammography information system with blockchain verification.
“We are pleased to join with Shorelight to share our commitment to liberal learning, associate provost and director of the world, in addition to current Mercer students. Soundcollide, founded by Robert Hatcher, is an online recording studio that allows
professional knowledge and discovery with top international students from across the the David Allan Hubbard Library Fellows receive a prize package that may include up users to discover new artists, record and collaborate live remotely from multiple
world,” said President William D. Underwood. “We welcome this opportunity to bring at Fuller Theological Seminary in to $20,000 in funding, parking on Mercer’s campus, locations. The platform helps collaborators save time and expenses while developing an
even more diverse and global perspectives into our classrooms and laboratories and on Pasadena, California, has been office space and MIC membership for a year, paid album and utilizes blockchain technology for music authentication.
our vibrant campuses in Macon and Atlanta.” named dean of the University Library at Mercer, student interns, access to Mercer facilities, access to Four additional fellowship applicants were selected as companies-in-residence and will
“Mercer University is an exemplary partner for Shorelight. Its world-class academic effective July 1. local investors, and coaching and mentoring by the receive support from the MIC. They include luxury natural hygiene company Lux Lenois,
offerings are in high demand globally, and its university culture welcomes international “Our search committee, led by Dr. Anita Center’s advisory board. founded by Mercer business professor Dr. Ania Rynarzewska; gourmet Virginia peanut
students with open arms,” said Shorelight Co-Founder and CEO Tom Dretler. “Our team Gustafson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, This year’s three fellows — Z Beans Coffee, company Bear Food Co., founded by Mercer junior Mac Brydon; e-commerce brand for
is excited to use our global reach to further introduce Mercer to the world and ensure did an excellent job in bringing forward a strong Send Mammogram and Soundcollide — bring the outdoor enthusiasts Traveler Camper, founded
candidate to lead the University Library,” Mercer Z Beans Coffee, founded by Mercer alumnus Shane
that international students choosing Mercer for their studies are supported and successful total number of fellowship recipients to nine over by recent Mercer graduate David Doleman; Buerster (center, left), is one of three Mercer Innovation
throughout their academic journey.” Provost Dr. Scott Davis said. “Dr. Waldrop has the first three years of the program. Past fellows and handcrafted leather goods company Fellows this year. The company opened its first store in
an excellent track record as a scholar and library Mercer Village last August with the support from Mercer
Mercer Global will combine intensive English language instruction with coursework include KUDU Safari Braai, HeadNoise, Hygeia, Kingfisher Leatherworks, founded by Innovation Center, Macon-based Central Piedmont
and additional support to help international students adjust academically and socially to administrator, and he embraces Mercer’s mission. I MedaSol, Ultimental and 43 Tech. Mercer freshman Luke Kolbie. Investment Group and other investors.
the University and the broader communities of Macon and Atlanta. believe he will reinforce the University’s tradition of
In addition to extensive undergraduate offerings, the superior library and research support.”
President William D. Underwood
graduate programs will include the M.S. in Business Analytics, and Shorelight Co-Founder and CEO Dr. Waldrop has held various leadership
M.S.E. in Computer Engineering, M.S.E. in Electrical Tom Dretler shake hands Oct. 30 in the positions at Fuller’s library since 2007, and has
Presidents Dining Room, kicking off a
Engineering, and MBA degree programs. It is anticipated new partnership to expand the number of
been director since 2015. He also serves as assistant
that the first students will enroll in fall 2019. international students at the University. professor of church history at Fuller. Prior to joining
Fuller, he served as library circulation supervisor at
Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Library
in Mill Valley, California.
Dr. Waldrop earned his Ph.D. in church history
and theology from Fuller in 2012. He also holds
a Master of Library and Information Science
degree from San Jose State University, Master of CHRISTOPHER IAN SMITH PHOTO; JOHATHAN STONER PHOTO
Theology and Master of Divinity degrees from
Golden Gate Seminary, and a Bachelor of Science
from LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas.
He has held faculty positions at Nepal Theological
Academy, Colorado Christian University and
Golden Gate Seminary.
Dr. Waldrop has written numerous articles and
MARIN GUTA PHOTO
essays and is author of the book The Emergence of
Religious Toleration in 18th Century New England:
Congregationalists, Baptists, and the Contribution of
John Callender.
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RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS University’s Research That Reaches Out Quality
Enhancement Plan (QEP) Office allowed for the
like they did in other parts of the South, which
people sometimes don’t realize, Dr. Fontenot said.
of what life was like in this region, going back through slavery, reconstruction
and more contemporary context.”
TO UNCOVER THE UNTOLD employment of two student researchers — Tiffany
Alexander and Addison Robinson — who spent
“There’s so much history that’s been covered up
and forgotten, and that’s kind of what we’re hoping Meaningful research
STORIES OF AFRICAN-
10 weeks reading records and taking notes at the to do … uncover those things,” Griggs said. It’s important for future generations to be able to look back on the history
courthouse, Griggs said. “The human toll, the human cost, it is right of what happened in Macon, Woodford said. These digitized resources will
“It helps to create narratives to the history that there in those documents. This was out in the open. make it easier for people to learn about their families and heritage, trace their
AMERICANS IN MIDDLE we do already know, but it also collects the history
that was either taught wrong or wasn’t taught at
This was legal. It was normal. It is shocking, but
also not surprising at the same time. It’s what you
property or see just what life was like back then. Bibb County residents and
Mercer students, as well as people outside the city, state and country, will be
A
GEORGIA By Andrea Honaker
all,” said Robinson, an Africana studies major and
journalism minor who is set to graduate in May.
would expect to see, but it is beyond distressing to
actually see it.”
able to access these records in a convenient format.
“I am nervous that some people won’t receive it as well as I did, but I’m
“I just feel like going back to these documents is A project by Dr. Matt Harper, assistant equally excited because I feel like the impact that will be made will be greater
12-year-old girl named Harriet. A 5-year- showing respect and bringing these people to life professor of history and Africana studies, and Dr. than the criticism,” Robinson said. “I want whoever it reaches to feel as
old boy named Nathan. They are written who otherwise we would have never known about.” Michele Prettyman Beverly, assistant professor impacted and as moved by this whole initiative as I was.”
into the pages of Bibb County historical This semester, the two students are continuing of media studies, to tell the stories of slaves The project is a huge endeavor that is going to take a while, Dr. Fontenot
deed books, right beside the sale of this work as their senior seminar research project. who worked at the historic Jarrell Plantation in said. The team hopes to complete the first phase of the project — on the
land and horses. They spend two hours a week at the courthouse, Jones County will be incorporated into this larger property deeds collection — within the next three years. The database “will
These black children are among more in addition to working on a series of podcasts. digitization project. be a living, breathing thing we can continuously update,” Griggs said.
than 400 records of slave transactions that The podcasts focus on the project’s findings and “There were 38 slaves, but we didn’t really This work is already generating buzz outside Bibb County. Dr. Fontenot
Mercer researchers have discovered so far in importance, said Alexander, a double-major in know who they were or what happened to them or said the Library of Congress has expressed interest, and he has received calls
just seven volumes. They still have 10 more Africana studies and media studies. what contributions they had made to the area,” Dr. and emails from people around the country who want to know more about
deed books to go through at the Bibb County “This is part of history that is extremely Harper said. “We’re hoping that in working with the what the project entails and how it’s being done.
Superior Court Clerk’s Office, followed by sugarcoated sometimes. A lot of times, we don’t plantation historic site and working with this larger “The kind of people, the kind of resources that we’ve been able to marshal is
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collections on chattel mortgages, chain have adequate access to the truth. project of digitizing black life in Middle Georgia we’ll very unique, and speaks well of the kinds of things that Mercer wants to do and
gang records and plantation maps. This project allows people to get find the right avenues to get those stories out to the promotes itself as. Yes, we want to do research, but we want to do research that
The clerk’s office, Mercer University first-hand experience of looking at general public.” means something,” Dr. Fontenot said. “In terms of scholarship, it’s probably the
Library and the Department of Africana
Studies have teamed up on an ambitious
THE HUMAN TOLL, THE HUMAN what happened,” Alexander said.
“I’ve been extremely grateful to be
While the larger project is finding stories
through the close
most meaningful research that I’ve ever developed and worked on.”
project to digitize historical documents COST, IT IS RIGHT THERE IN a part of it, and I can’t wait to see examination of a few
from 1823 to 1865 related to slavery. They
are focusing on Bibb County first but
THOSE DOCUMENTS....” where it goes.”
They presented a poster on the
kinds of records, the
Jarrell Plantation
hope to later expand the project to other “WE’VE GOT THE DIGITAL TOOLS project at the library in early fall. project takes a
counties in Middle Georgia.
THAT CAN NOT ONLY MAKE THE They will exhibit their research at
the University’s BEAR Day in the
different approach
by using a variety
A chilling discovery ARCHIVING AND RESEARCH spring and have applied to take of records to tell the
Bibb County Superior Court Clerk Erica
Woodford, who earned bachelor’s degrees
EASIER, BUT IT CAN ALSO MAKE it to conferences this academic
year. The team hopes to be able
story of people at
one particular site.
IT ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE.
’’
in African American studies and political to involve more students and is Mercer students
science at Mercer, said she discovered looking into grant funding to propel have pulled together
slave records within the deed books the project forward. documents from the
during her inventory after taking office in county courthouse,
January 2013. Soon after, she shared her findings with Dr. Chester Fontenot Jr., Forgotten chapters state archives,
director of Mercer’s Africana studies program and Baptist Professor of English. “Essentially what we’re doing is building a census records and
“It was very interesting just to see the actual conveyance of a human, a slave, digital database … that literally paints a portrait interviews and shared
in writing right here in Bibb County,” Woodford said. “We learned about it in of what life was like for African-Americans during their reports with the
school, and we all know and were taught that it happened, but to actually see that era in Bibb County,” Dr. Fontenot said. plantation site.
it in writing in the office … I knew that it was important to give access to these “Throughout the country, you don’t have many “We’ve got the
documents to the public.” projects like this.” digital tools that
These historical documents, stored in the mezzanine area of the records vault It’s rare to have these records on hand, since can not only make
at the Superior Court Clerk’s Office, are already available to the public for viewing, many courthouses lost their historical documents to the archiving and
but the project will preserve the collections in their entirety in a digital format, she fires or floods, Woodford said. The research team is research easier, but
said. In addition, a separate, searchable database and narrative component will be lucky to have a superior court clerk on board who it can also make it
created for the slave records, Dr. Fontenot said. Long-term plans include creating a recognizes the value of this research and has made accessible to people,”
curriculum and lesson plans around the latter portion of the project. the records so accessible, Dr. Fontenot added. Dr. Beverly said.
“Typically, online resources don’t provide all that extra material. It’s not just This is cutting-edge research, nationally, “Part of our job is
that we want to put this stuff out there, but we want to also make it so that for Africana studies. The field doesn’t have the to add something to
BEKAH HOWARD PHOTO
people can engage with it,” said Research Services Librarian Adam Griggs. “In historical collections that other subject areas do, and what Dr. Fontenot’s
my mind, it’s about making it stand out. The prospect of making something that this online database would provide a vital resource larger project is, and
people can discover is really what motivates me.” that’s currently missing. These documents provide that’s to give people
The project got off the ground in summer 2018, when funding from the proof that things happened in Middle Georgia just a much broader sense
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(CADFP) this past summer and traveled to Kenya, Dr. Grady has played an active role in 12 PCS
where she co-developed an undergraduate curriculum conferences, serving on program committees, as a
in gender and climate change for Egerton University. technical reviewer, as proceedings co-chair, and as
Additionally, Dr. Obidoa created two-week and program chair and conference co-chair for the 2005
&RECOGNITION
six-month certificate programs in gender and climate and 2015 conferences in Ireland.
change for Egerton University aimed at students who
are unable to complete the three-year undergraduate DR. HA VO RECOGNIZED WITH
diploma program. HEALTHCARE HERO AWARD
As an important structural response to the impact
of climate change, Dr. Obidoa and her collaborators Distinguished University Professor of Biomedical
intend for these academic programs to increase Engineering DR. HA VAN VO received the Healthcare
DEBBIE BLANKENSHIP DR. DAVID DAVIS AWARDED 2018 awareness about the gendered effects of climate Hero award on Sept. 8 from the Vietnamese
change in the local community and in the entire American Healthcare Professional Association of
NAMED DIRECTOR OF CCJ EUDORA WELTY PRIZE
EBBIE
MERCER DR. DAVID A. DAVIS, associate professor of English,
region and foster research and scholarship on the Georgia (VAHPAG).
VAHPAG gathered in the Atlanta History Center
BLANKENSHIP, FACULTY was awarded the Eudora Welty Prize during the 30th
impact of gender on climate change in Kenya.
Dr. Obidoa also delivered a presentation on gender
Dr. Joseph Donnelly, clinical
professor of physical therapy, and to honor Dr. Vo with the award for his work with
AUTHOR
who has served as annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium held Oct. Dr. Jennifer Freeman, adjunct amputees through Mercer On Mission’s Vietnam
and climate change at the Indigenous Peoples of clinical assistant professor of
interim director of 18-20 at Mississippi University for Women. Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC) planning physical therapy, co-edited prosthetics program.
Mercer’s Center NEW Dr. Davis won the prize — which honors an meeting held June 19-21 in Naivasha, Kenya,
Travell, Simons and Simons’
Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction:
Dr. Vo, who also serves as an associate research
for Collaborative outstanding book of scholarship on women’s scientist in the School of Medicine, has done
Journalism (CCJ) BOOKS studies, Southern studies, modern letters or some
and co-prepared the IPACC gender and climate
change strategy.
The Trigger Point Manual,
3rd edition, LWW. groundbreaking work in designing and deploying
since July 2017, combination of these areas — for his book World War The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship low-cost artificial limbs in third-world countries,
was named director I and Southern Modernism, published by University Program, now in its fifth year, is designed to increase including his native Vietnam.
of the Center on Press of Mississippi in November 2017. Africa’s brain circulation, build capacity at the He and University Minister and Dean of Chapel
Jan. 25. “Mississippi University for Women and University host institutions, and develop long-term, mutually- Dr. Craig McMahan have organized Mercer On
Blankenship is Press of Mississippi were very pleased to award beneficial collaborations between universities in Mission trips to Vietnam since 2009.
the CCJ’s second David A. Davis the Eudora Welty Prize for 2018,” said Africa and the United States and Canada. On the first trip, a team of Mercer faculty and
director, following Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg, director of the Eudora Welty A total of 335 African Diaspora Fellowships have students fit about 38 people in the town of Phung
Tim Regan-Porter, Writers’ Symposium. “His study, World War I and been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the Hiep. Last summer, 10 years after that inaugural
who accepted a Southern Modernism, is a solid work of scholarship program’s inception in 2013. Fellowships match host trip, representatives from the University fit the
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship for the 2017- and is particularly timely this year, given the universities with African-born scholars, individually 10,000th Vietnamese amputee with Dr. Vo’s patented
2018 academic year at Stanford University and centenary of the end of that war. Davis’s presentation or in small groups, and cover expenses for project leg prosthetic.
was named editor for McClatchy’s South Region was highly informative and accessible and was well visits of between 21 and 90 days. Dr. Vo grew up in South Vietnam hoping to
in June 2018. Dr. Carolyn Yackel, professor received at the symposium.” someday make a difference in his home country for
As interim director, Blankenship managed media of mathematics, served as
chief editor of Figuring Fibers,
Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, Dr. Davis DR. HELEN GRADY FIRST TWO- his fellow citizens who lost limbs as a result of land
partnerships with Georgia Public Broadcasting and American Mathematics Society.
argues Southern modernism was not a self-generating TIME RECIPIENT OF IEEE’S mines remaining from the Vietnam War. Today, it is
The Telegraph in Macon and integrated new partner outburst of writing, but a response to the disruptions Dr. Thomas B. Slater, professor of estimated that there are more than 100,000 amputees
13WMAZ into the Center’s programming. She modernity generated in the region. He examines SCHLESINGER AWARD New Testament studies, authored in the country.
Afrocentric Interpretations of
was also tasked with meeting the requirements of dozens of works of literature by writers, including DR. HELEN M. GRADY, chair and professor Paul and the Pauline Tradition: Mercer On Mission operates clinics in four
$2 million in new funding from the John S. and William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow and Claude McKay, of technical communication in the School of Things That Black Scholars See locations around the country and trains local doctors
That White Scholars Do Not See,
James. L Knight Foundation, which was received by that depict the South during the war. Engineering, received the Emily K. Schlesinger Edwin Mellen.
and technicians to fit the prosthetic year-round in the
the CCJ in July 2017 to expand the Center’s efforts. Topics explored in the book include contact Award for Outstanding Service to the Professional absence of Dr. Vo and his team.
Blankenship previously served as visiting assistant between the North and the South, Southerners who Communication Society (PCS) from the Institute for In addition to more than a dozen trips to Vietnam,
professor and journalist-in-residence at Mercer since served in combat and the developing Southern Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). the program has made one trip to Haiti following that
2013. Prior to that, Blankenship served for nearly economy. Dr. Davis also provides a new lens for this The award, presented since 1995, is named in country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The United
eight years as a congressional aide to U.S. Rep. Jim argument, taking a closer look at African-Americans honor of Schlesinger, a longtime member and former Nations and other international agencies have had
Marshall and for more than three years as a reporter in the military and changing gender roles. president of PCS and senior member of IEEE. Dr. discussions with the University about expanding the
at The Telegraph focusing on the courts and criminal Each year, Mississippi University for Women and Grady is its first-ever two-time recipient, having program into other countries.
justice system. University Press of Mississippi collaborate to present previously received the award in 2006.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology an award to honor the late short story writer and Dr. Grady is a senior member of IEEE and served TWO PENFIELD COLLEGE
with a minor in graphic communications from novelist Eudora Welty, who is the university’s most on the IEEE PCS Board of Directors as chair of the PROFESSORS SELECTED TO
Clemson University. She went on to earn her master’s famous alumna. editorial advisory board from 2005-2017. In this
degree in mass communication from the University capacity, she managed the 2008, 2010 and 2015 SERVE ON APLU COMMITTEES
of Georgia, where she also served as news editor of
Dr. Anita Olson Gustafson, dean
of the College of Liberal Arts,
DR. CHINEKWU OBIDOA searches for editor-in-chief of the Transactions on Penfield College faculty members DR. CHARLES
The Red & Black. authored Swedish Chicago:
The Shaping of an Immigrant
PARTICIPATES IN CARNEGIE Professional Communication. For 10 years, she ROBERTS, associate professor of mathematics, and DR.
Established in 2012 with $5.7 million in funding Community, 1880-1920, AFRICAN DIASPORA coordinated selection of Joenk Award recipients for ZIPANGANI VOKHIWA, associate professor of science,
from Knight Foundation and the Peyton Anderson Northern Illinois University Press. best transactions paper and served as vice president were recently selected to serve on two Association of
Foundation, the Center for Collaborative Journalism FELLOWSHIP IN KENYA of PCS for three years.
Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished
Public Land Grant Universities’ (APLU) Network of
University Professor of Christian
is a unique partnership between Mercer’s Journalism DR. CHINEKWU OBIDOA, assistant professor of global She also was instrumental in establishing the Ethics, and his wife, Jeanie STEM Education Centers (NSEC) committees.
Gushee, co-authored Morning
and Media Studies Department, The Telegraph, GPB health in the College of Liberal Arts, was selected for Wiley/IEEE Series on Professional Engineering and Evening Prayerbook,
Dr. Roberts will serve a two-year term on the NSEC
and 13WMAZ. the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program Communication and hired its first editor in 2010. Thomas Nelson. Steering Committee, and Dr. Vokhiwa, who recently
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