Last month, when the Mercer University Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve Penny Elkins as the 19th — and first female — president in the institution’s 192-year history, they did more than make history.
The concert violinist and R.E.M. bassist performed with the Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra featuring students from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings and spoke with GPB's Kristi York Wooten before the show.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Close to 700 people in Georgia reported postpartum depressive symptoms in 2020, though the number of unreported cases likely makes that number much higher.
