Valdosta's Faucette Recognized with Scholarship at Mercer Honors Convocation

Related Media

Valdosta's Garrett Faucette (left) was recognized as a Ramsey Scholarship winner at Mercer University's 2013 Honors Convocation.

MACON, GA (05/10/2013)(readMedia)-- Mercer University has awarded Garrett Faucette the Ramsey Scholarship from the Georgia Independent College Association. Faucette was presented with the award at University's 2013 Honors Convocation. He is a 2012 honor graduate of Brooks County High School and is a biology/pre-pharmacy major with a minor in law and public policy. Faucette is a rising sophomore in Mercer's College of Liberal Arts.

Faucette is the son of Terry and Cindy Faucette of Valdosta.

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 8,300 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-