MACON, GA (06/13/2011)(readMedia)-- Mercer University recently honored Angela Barnett of Hiram at the University's 2011 Honors Convocation in Macon. Barnett received the 2011 Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Barnett graduated with a Master of Education degree in early childhood education from the Tift College of Education at the University's Atlanta commencement on May 14.
Barnett is the daughter of Emery and Sandra Miller.
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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.