Mercer University Honors Colquitt Resident Amelia Davis

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(L to R): team members Jessica Powell, Mark Andrew Moore, and Colquitt’s Amelia Carol Davis, were presented with Mercer University’s Outstanding Senior Design Award by Dr. Laura Lackey (right).

MACON, GA (06/13/2011)(readMedia)-- Mercer University recently honored graduating senior Amelia Carol Davis of Colquitt at the 2011 Honors Convocation. Davis was part of a three-person team that received the Outstanding Senior Design Award for the project "Universal Prosthetic Ankle." Davis graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and University Honors from Mercer's School of Engineering on May 14.

Davis, a biomedical engineering major, is the daughter of Al and Nancy Davis of Colquitt.

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Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University enrolls more than 8,200 students in 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies – on major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah and at four regional academic centers across the state. Mercer is affiliated with two teaching hospitals - Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. The University operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program. For more information, visit www.mercer.edu.