Tyrone's Crisp Earns Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Mercer; Fellowship to Study Ph.D. at Florida State

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Mercer University President William D. Underwood presents Tyrone's Alice Crisp with the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award at Mercer's Macon Commencement.

MACON, GA (06/09/2011)(readMedia)-- Mercer University awarded Alice Marie Crisp, of Tyrone, Ga., the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, one of its highest awards for undergraduates. Crisp received the award at Mercer's commencement on May 14, in which she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Mercer's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics. Additionally, Crisp has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to study at Florida State University and earn a Ph.D. in economics. FSU has awarded Crisp the Charles G. Koch Fellowship to pay for her education.

Crisp is the daughter of Marvin and Betty Crisp of Tyrone.

The Koch Fellowship is awarded to promising doctoral candidates in the FSU Economics Department and carries a $25,000 stipend for the academic year, along with a full-tuition waiver, for four years. Crisp will also have the opportunity to work as a teaching assistant and research assistant.

Crisp held multiple leadership roles while at Mercer, including student body vice president. She was an integral member on the Student Government Association, holding several leadership positions within SGA. Crisp was also philanthropy chair and membership education vice president for her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. She traveled to Liberia with Mercer On Mission as part of a service-learning study abroad program, worked with the Ronald McDonald House Charities and tutored fellow students in the Academic Resource Center.

About the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award:

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award is presented to the graduating student who best exemplifies excellence in character, leadership, service to the community, and commitment to spiritual values. This award was established by The New York Southern Society in 1925, and at Mercer University in 1926, in memory of Sullivan, a great humanitarian and philanthropist.

About Mercer University

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.