Annie R. Ita was named to the spring semester dean’s list at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, where she is a junior in the school of art and design.
Nickayla C. Page, majoring in pre-pharmacy, was inducted into the Mortar Board National Honor Society at Western New England University in Springfield.
Marlana J Haas, majoring in computer engineering, was inducted into the Mortar Board National Honor Society at Western New England University in Springfield.
Patrick Dickert received the Education Scholar Activist Award at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he is a member of the class of 2018.
Phoebe Gelbard, daughter of Anne and Jeff Gelbard and a 2016 graduate of Northampton High School, has received the Esther Warner Scholarship from the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The scholarship provides support for students pursuing an undergraduate degree in Forestry and Natural Resource Studies.
Gelbard was also awarded the Education Abroad Merit Scholarship and the Lang Global Scholars Award. She is a member of the class of 2020.
Charles Hale, who graduated with a degree in biology from Haverford College last year, has won a Fulbright U.S. Student Research award to travel to the Czech Republic to continue studying an invasive plant that was the focus of his senior thesis..
He will be working at the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany in Prague for nine months, starting in mid-September.
After his graduation in 2017, Hale was selected to receive a Haverford House Fellowship. That program, run by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, chooses graduating seniors committed to social justice and community action for a post-graduate year of work at Philadelphia-area nonprofits, during which the fellows share a West Philadelphia home and create projects that engage the college with local groups devoted to creating a more just, healthy and vibrant community.
As part of his fellowship, Hale has been working on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) programming in Philadelphia middle and high schools.
The following local students have been named to the winter semester dean’s list at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Ellie Friends of Deerfield, a 2017 graduate of Deerfield Academy; Anna Kandel of Pelham, a 2014 graduate of Amherst Regional High School; Henry Colt, a 2014 graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School, and Kelly McDonald, a 2015 graduate of Smith Academy, both of Whately.
The Holyoke Community College Foundation awarded scholarships for the 2018-2019 academic year to the students named below.
Amherst: Georgina Burgos, Jaya Byrne, Sara Darbyshire, Amaraya Deza, Kevin Komoyingo, Phung Pham, Stacey Read, Zachary Trager MacDonald, Xinhong Wu
Belchertown: Melissa Anderson, Chelsea Beaulieu, Mark Fleming, Taylor McCoy, Samantha Opalenik
Easthampton: Noelle Fournier, Robin Gencarelle, Jackson KaneLong, Brianna McInerney, Heather Paiva, Erik Perez-Gonzalez, Jessie Whitley
Florence: Axel Bou-Montes, Alexander Dostie-Slavich, Nicholas Gulow, Lily Lashway, Nicole Lehrfeld-Schlueter, Olivia Lemire
Granby: Taylor Dumais, Tia Dwinell, Olivia Morin, Olivia Murray, Kyle Roe
Hadley: Cassandra LePouttre
Haydenville: Sonia Mendez
Northampton: Flor Castillo Rivas, Owen Colas, Danielle Crescione, Sara Duhl, Crystal Ennis, Courtney Gilligan, Sara Haller, Elisabeth Laudone, Samantha Rice, Jazz Schmidt, Boshan Zheng
South Hadley: Jerid Deprey, Sahara Garcia, Kyle Gemme, Raymond Guerin, Shyanne Jackson, Stephanie Lutz, Jonathan Niemiec, Lea Waldbillig
Southampton: Eliza Fennell, Jeremy Routhier
Westhampton: Jessica LaFortune
The following local students were named to the spring semester dean’s list at the college in Newton:
Sarah LaClair, Kelsey Fenn, Mitchell Bolton, all of Belchertown; Isabelle Contois of Conway; Haley McFarland of Easthampton; Derek McMahon Hatfield, and Allison Garriepy of Huntington.