Engineering students from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia were in El Cercado, San Juan de la Maguana province this summer. They worked alongside locals and built a new water tank and system for the community of Sabana Bonita.
Eleven engineering majors, five journalism majors and four faculty members participated in the eighth Mercer On Mission trip to the Dominican Republic. The late Michael MacCarthy, associate professor of environmental and civil engineering, began the volunteer initiative. Natalia Cardelino, assistant professor of environmental and civil engineering and Laura Moody, associate professor and chair of industrial engineering and industrial management have continued. Debbie Blankenship, director of Mercer’s Center for Collaborative Journalism, and Adaline Buerck, assistant professor of environmental and civil engineering and director of Mercer’s Cecil Day Family Center for International Groundwater Innovation, also went on this year’s trip.
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19 July 2023