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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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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

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Two Mercer students stand in front of a butterfly mural in Belize.

A kneeling Mercer student fits a standing man with a prosthetic leg in Vietnam.

A Mercer student saws a piece of rebar that a man holds against a post in the Dominican Republic.

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A group of people pose in front of and on top of a large rock in a lush, green outdoor setting.

Service

Mercerians help preserve environmental knowledge in the Amazon

A group of children and adults pose and smile in a classroom filled with desks, colorful posters, and bookshelves.

Service

Mercer On Mission program an ‘invaluable’ experience for Mercerians, Colombians

A woman presents to a classroom of students with UNHCR and Save the Children logos displayed on the screen.

Service

New Mercer On Mission program introduces engineering to Syrian refugee children

A group of people stands together outdoors on grass, smiling, with buildings and trees in the background.

Service

Mercer team leads nutrition, health workshops during Uganda trip

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

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

college student holds out mercer flag

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

people in green shirts gather around a laptop

Discovery and Innovation

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

a man points to a device while others look on

Discovery and Innovation

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