College notes
Dean’s list
Joyce Phelan, a 2010 graduate of Warwick Valley High School, was named to the dean’s list at the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa., with a grade point average of 3.90 for the fall 2012 semester.
She is in the third year of a five-year master’s program in occupational therapy.
Brad Ackerman, former student of Warwick Valley High School and a graduate of Villanova University, completed his first semester at John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a 3.8 average. He recently began work in the Asset Forfeiture and Seized Property Division at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Honors, programs, awards
Deirdre Davis of Warwick was one of 62 SUNY Oneonta student-athletes named to the State University of New York Athletic Conference All-Academic Team for the fall season.
To qualify for the All-Academic Team, a student must be varsity athlete who has completed the entire season and earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.3 for the semester in which they competed.
Deirdre, who is majoring in biology, was a member of the fall women’s cross-country team.
Rebecca Tripp of Warwick, a sophomore communications studies major at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisc., attended a Marquette Action Program (MAP) spring break service trip through Marquette’s Campus Ministry program.
Rebecca traveled with 11 other Marquette students to Nashville, Tenn., performed service focusing on education.
Sponsored by Marquette’s Campus Ministry, the trips expose students to aspects of poverty, racism and the lives of the disabled in today’s society. Depending on the site, students may be doing anything from assisting in classrooms to preparing meals at homeless shelters to repairing houses devastated by storms.
Binghamton University student Meghan M. Koennecke from Florida, N.Y., was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines, founded in 1897.
Membership is by invitation only to Binghamton University’s top 7.5 percent of students at the second semester junior level and the top 10 percent of students at the senior level.
Phi Kappa Phi members are eligible for one or more of the Society’s numerous grant and award programs. Phi Kappa Phi’s Fellowships for graduate study, Love of Learning awards, and Literacy grants are just some examples. The Society is proud of its record of helping members advance their education and serve their community through these programs.