Amherst
Richard Atkinson, class of 2019, was named to the winter high honors list at Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut.
William Schmidt was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he is majoring in music composition.
Nicholas Day, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been named as a Division III Scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Day, a sophomore and civil engineering major, is a repeat honoree.
Gabrielle Ransford, a second-year student in Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine in Hampden, Connecticut, is developing a medical-legal partnership between the School of Medicine, the Quinnipiac University School of Law Legal Clinic and Fair Haven Community Health Center.
Last summer, Ransford conducted an assessment of the legal needs of patients served by FHCHC, a federally qualified health center in New Haven where she has trained for about 18 months as part of Quinnipiac’s Medical Student Home program.
Ransford will present the findings of her survey at the annual Medical-Legal Partnership Summit in April in National Harbor, Maryland, and at a regional conference in May in Rochester, New York.
Jillian Slezek is studying the Italian language and Renaissance architecture in Florence, Italy, during Union College’s spring term. Slezek, a member of the class of 2018 at the college in Schenectady, New York, is majoring in English.
Evan Murray was named to the fall semester dean’s list at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where he is studying computer science.
Justin Golec was named to NE10 commissioner’s honor roll for academic achievement at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Golec is a graduate student on the Golden Knights men’s lacrosse team.
Nathan Donze, class of 2017, was named to the winter high honors list at Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Madeline R. Spencer-Orrell and Matthew Epstein, both of Florence, and Karlyn F. Simpson of South Hadley, received fall semester faculty honors from the college in Hartford, Connecticut.
Local students named to the fall semester dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell include:
Amherst: Seth Ledoux, majoring in English, and Zoe Vernick, majoring in continuing studies.
Belchertown: Joshua Bonetti, majoring in criminal justice; Allison Daly, majoring in biology; Jacob Girard, majoring in business administration, and Helen Hale, majoring in exercise physiology
Easthampton: Parthavi Patel, majoring in exercise physiology
Granby: Lena Lilly Hellstrom, majoring in information technology
Haydenville: Erin Bishop, majoring in biology
Northampton: Ernest Hadley, majoring in information technology
South Hadley: Victoria Mielnikowski, majoring in exercise physiology
Southampton: Lauren Aldrich, majoring in biology