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Mercer On Mission combines study abroad and service-learning to provide life-changing experiences for students through academic instruction, cultural immersion, applied research, meaningful service and spiritual reflection.

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Three individuals use a pXRF device to test for lead on a metal bar with peeling orange paint outdoors. The person to the left operates the device as another takes notes, and a third observes. All are wearing sun hats.

Make a Difference in the World.

Mercer On Mission logo Live among people in other countries. See first hand the challenges they face. Participate with them in building projects. Join them in tutoring and mentoring experiences. Provide relief assistance and basic medical care. Use research incubated in Mercer labs and classrooms to solve real-world problems.

179

trips since MOM began in 2007
3,128

Mercer students and faculty have participated
46

different international sites visited

Where will you go to change the world?

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Two Mercer students wearing blue scrubs fit a prosthetic leg on a Vietnamese man sitting in a chair.

A student wearing an orange Mercer T-shirt sits at a table with children writing on papers.

Eight children work on computers at a desk; four children are on either side. Four Mercer students lean over the children helping them.

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Service

Finding hope among Ukrainian refugees in the Republic of Georgia

Group of seven people of various ages sitting together outside a building, smiling. The group includes adults and children, some holding handmade bears, with a bag and a backpack on the ground in front of them.

Discovery and Innovation

Students connect with refugees during Mercer On Mission to France

Mercer students, a professor, and Uttarakhand residents sit in a circle in a room of a home. The Uttarakhand residents are wearing brightly colored traditional India clothing and sitting on the floor. The Mercer students and professor sit on a couch and chair. One student is taking notes.

Service

Mercer On Mission team examines effects of tourism boom in northern India

Three individuals use a pXRF device to test for lead on a metal bar with peeling orange paint outdoors. The person to the left operates the device as another takes notes, and a third observes. All are wearing sun hats.

Discovery and Innovation

Mercer On Mission team tests for lead in paint, soil in Belize

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Mercer News

Four students selected to study abroad as Gilman Scholars

A group of people dig a trench, with a view of the countryside in the background.

Discovery and Innovation

Mercer tackles global water crisis by bringing clean water to communities in need

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Discovery and Innovation

Mercer works to reduce mercury pollution in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

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Discovery and Innovation

Mercer researchers develop faster, cheaper method to identify lead in paint

Left photo shows a man in scrubs hugging a vietnamese man. right photo shows the back of a woman on the ground

Viewpoints

Amid unfixable brokenness, I saw the face of God in Vietnam

Two Mercer students talk with two children and check their vital signs.

Service

Mercer On Mission team provides health care to nearly 1,000 people in India

A group of people in front of a colorful building

Discovery and Innovation

Mercer On Mission provides summer camp for marginalized children in Mongolia

Students hold posters that explain fixed vs growth mindset

Service

Mercer On Mission team works to reduce violence against women in Tanzania