Mercer University Honors Rutledge Resident Wibell

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Wibell was unable to attend but received the Outstanding Junior in Communications Studies, the Outstanding Student in Women and Gender Studies and the Dorothy Wefel Matthews Scholarship.

MACON, GA (05/31/2013)(readMedia)-- Mercer University recently honored Sarah Elisabeth Wibell of Rutledge at its 2013 Honors Convocation. Wibell received the Outstanding Junior in Communications Studies Award, the Outstanding Student in Women and Gender Studies Award and was the recipient of the Dorothy Wefel Matthews $6,000 Scholarship.

Wibell was unable to attend the Honors Convocation because she was presenting a paper at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.

Wibell is a junior in Mercer's College of Liberal Arts and is double majoring in communications and women and gender studies.

She is the daughter of Karen and Peter Wibell.

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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 8,300 students in 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies – on campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah – and four regional academic centers across the state. The Mercer Health Sciences Center launched July 1, 2012, and includes the University's medical, nursing and pharmacy schools and will add a fourth college – the College of Health Professions – on July 1, 2013. Mercer is affiliated with four teaching hospitals - Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and The Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital in Columbus. The University also has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. It 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. www.mercer.edu -30-