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Contact:
Lorie
Miros
(863)
667-7053
Lakeland,
FL (March 31, 2006) - USF
Lakeland Vice-President and Campus Executive Officer L. Preston
Mercer will attend the Oxford Round Table, an international think-tank
of scholars, policy makers and other experts who gather at England's
prestigious Oxford University to discuss the promotion of human
advancement and understanding through the improvement of education.
This year's conference will take place from April 2-7 at Harris
Manchester College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
Since it first convened in 1989, the Oxford Round Table has hosted
United States governors and senators, government ministers from
such countries as Uganda, Bangladesh, Denmark, Oman, Belarus and
Australia and representatives from the international education and
business community, among others.
The results of the deliberations are published and distributed to
policymakers and academic libraries around the world. Previous Oxford
Round Tables have produced several books.
“This year's Round Table is devoted to health and nutrition,”
said Mercer, who has researched and written about prevailing issues
in nutrition and the disciplines of health.
“What will be interesting,” said Mercer “is to
see how the issues of nutrition and health sciences are perceived
in the various countries represented at the Round Table. I am extremely
honored to have been chosen to be a part in all this, and I look
forward to getting this international perspective.”
Invitations to the event are sent to a very select group. These
individuals are identified through several screening processes:
by nomination of previous participants in the Round Table; from
recommendations to the Round Table directors who, are themselves
actively involved in higher education and public school leadership;
from recognized presentations and awards of state and national organizations;
and by invitations to an individual in a successful university or
school district. The foundation of the success of the Round Table
is the assurance that this learning community will be composed of
outstanding educational leaders.
Mercer graduated with a B.S. in
Chemistry from the University of Texas in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry
from the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in
1971. He then spent 19 years in medical education in Alabama and
Oklahoma. From 1990-1999 he was Chair of the Department of Nutrition
and Food Science at the University of Kentucky. Since 1999 Mercer
has served as Vice President and Campus Executive Officer for the
Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida and Professor
of Chemistry. He has submitted a paper to the Oxford Round Table
on International Iodine Deficiency and will make a formal presentation
to the group at the meetings.
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