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Berry College in Rome, Ga., held its spring commencement ceremony on May 10, 2025. (Berry College/ Facebook)

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  • News

Congrats Class of 2025! A look through Georgia's commencement ceremonies

It's graduation season! Georgia colleges and universities will hold commencement ceremonies to celebrate and honor the Class of 2025. 

May 19, 2025
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  • GPB News Staff
Members of the Mercer University chapter of Zeta Phi Beta after their performance in the school's recent yard show.

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  • Arts & Culture News

The art of stepping helps connect today's college students to the past

At Mercer University in Macon, students put together a yard show to get back to their educational roots.

May 02, 2025
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By:
  • Loren Reddish and
  • GPB News Staff
Wesley Reimer feeds his son Marshall from a bottle in their Macon home. Reimer partially blames the current baby formula shortage on panicked shoppers stockpiling formula and on profiteers selling formula online.

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  • Health

Healthy Start for families in South Georgia plans to bring birth support on board

Nationally, the largely federally funded initiative links families with case managers who can help monitor their health and look out for their needs during the transition of childbirth.

April 22, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Mercer University plans to build its new medical school on seven acres in the 800 block of Riverside Drive. The Urban Development Authority agreed to sell the land Thursday. Credit: Liz Fabian

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  • News

Mercer to build new medical school along Ocmulgee River

On Thursday, the Urban Development Authority signed a deal to sell to Mercer University the old Transit Authority site and adjacent land next to the Burger King in the 800 block of Riverside Drive.

March 03, 2025
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  • Liz Fabian
Downtown Reynolds in Taylor County.

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  • Health

As CDC prepares to tackle rural health, what could that mean in Georgia?

The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its new five-year strategic plan for the Office of Rural Health earlier this month. 

September 24, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Students in AI Camp react to teacher Joe Finkelstien prompting an AI on the projector. From left to right, campers from the week of June 10, 2024: Christabelle Kabuye, Bryson Brandon, Aiden Wright, and Lawson Surles.

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  • Technology

A Macon day camp introduces kids to the ethics of AI

Young children today may never know a time without AI.  So how do you teach kids to use AI effectively — and ethically?

July 01, 2024
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  • Taleen Hanna
Future homeowner LaQuanda Ferguson (right) reads remarks next to Macon Area Habitat for Humanity board president Andrea Cooke during the Lynmore Estates ground blessing on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Macon, Georgia. Macon Area Habitat for Humanity held the ground blessing at a plot of land off of Dorothy Avenue where three future homes will be built.

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  • News

Macon wants to get rid of rundown buildings. Could we see affordable housing replace them?

Macon-Bibb County has demolished more than 700 rundown, abandoned, hazardous buildings within the county, and while thousands still reportedly remain, one group is finding use for the land that’s left once a blighted building is destroyed.

May 30, 2024
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  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
Maya Peters-Greno uses a small brush to clean the grime away from a recently recovered headstone in the Penfield African American Cemetery in Greene County.

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  • History

At the birthplace of Mercer University, a brick wall frames a mystery of racial division

A relatively newly remembered burial ground yields more questions than answers as universities piece together missing links in the history of Georgia’s enslaved populations.

May 08, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Across the country, universities like Mercer offer Great Books programs, seminar-style classes where students discuss and debate texts from the Western canon.

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  • Education

In a 'polarized world,' Mercer University expands Great Books program, adds new voices

What makes a book great, and who decides what authors in the Western canon are highlighted? These and other questions put programs like Great Books under added pressure to meet the needs of students and keep up with the pace of change.

January 04, 2024
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By:
  • Eliza Moore
Medical student Emily Hartley from Reynolds talks to her neighbors at the ribbon cutting for the Mercer Medicine clinic in Taylor County.

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  • Health

After sitting empty for over a decade, a health clinic in Taylor County is opened again with help

 It’s the latest clinic to open as part of the Mercer University School of Medicine's efforts to strengthen rural health care. 

December 04, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
mental health training

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  • Mental Health

Georgia experts warn of a growing maternal mental health crisis — and why it's important to get help

Close to 700 people in Georgia reported postpartum depressive symptoms in 2020, though the number of unreported cases likely makes that number much higher.

April 18, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
First-year medical students from Mercer at the press conference in Macon on Thursday.

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  • Children's Health

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta commits millions to grow rural pediatric care

 $200 million from CHOA will fund scholarships, training and improvements for providers in rural parts of the state

February 24, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Headshot of the Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Clyde Reese. The court says Reese died unexpectedly on Saturday after a short hospital stay.

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  • News

Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Clyde Reese dies at 64

A Georgia Court of Appeals judge has died at age 64. The court says Judge Clyde Reese died on Saturday.

December 19, 2022
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  • Associated Press

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  • Environment

Hurricane season is over, Mercer spotlights women's rights, and a former prosecutor has a court date

On the Wednesday, Nov. 30 edition of the Georgia Today podcast: Hurricane season is over, Mercer is putting a spotlight on women's rights, a former Georgia prosecutor charged with hindering the police investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has been ordered to appear before a judge 

November 30, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
"Women's Rights are Human Rights" was curated by graphic designer Elizabeth Resnick. The exhibit will be on display at Mercer University through January 2023.

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  • Art & Design

'Women’s Rights' exhibit in Macon showcases international collection of political posters

The exhibit, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” was curated by Elizabeth Resnick, a graphic designer and curator out of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Its namesake is from a 1995 speech by then-first lady Hillary Clinton. 

November 25, 2022
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  • Sofi Gratas
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