Students Named to Honors List
The following students have been named to the Champlain College an Honors List for the spring 2022 semester. The honors include:
• Dean’s List – achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or higher for the spring semester.
• President’s List – achieving a grade point average of 4.0 or higher for the spring semester.
• Trustees’ List – achieving a grade point average of 4.0 or higher for two consecutive semesters.
• Beatrice Espanola of Jamaica Plain made the Dean’s list.
• Charlotte Ross of Jamaica Plain made the Trustees’ list.
Espanola Graduates from Champlain College
Champlain College is pleased to announce that Beatrice Espanola of Jamaica Plain recently graduated from Champlain College after the spring 2022 semester.
Espanola was one of 587 students who completed their degree requirements and received their diploma at this time. Espanola completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Media.
Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. From its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain, the College offers an innovative academic experience and more than 100 residential and online programs, including undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates. Champlain’s distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. For the sixth year in a row, Champlain was named a “Most Innovative School” in the North by U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” rankings, and was listed among The Princeton Review’s “The Best 387 Colleges” in 2022. Champlain is also featured in the 2021 Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of the “best and most interesting schools” in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain and was recognized as a 2020 College of Distinction for its “Engagement, Teaching, Community, and Outcomes.” For more information, visit champlain.edu.
Local Students Graduate from Emerson
Emerson College, the nation’s premier institution for the arts, communication, and the liberal arts, awarded more than 1,000 undergraduate degrees during its 142nd Commencement at Agganis Arena in Boston.
Augustus Lamb from Jamaica Plain received a BA in Media Arts Production.
• Beatriz Andrade from Jamaica Plain received a BA in Media Arts Production.
• Lou Balikos from Jamaica Plain received a BA in Writing, Lit & Pub: Publishing.
During the ceremony, the College honored three award-winning artists, innovators, and Emersonians for their contributions and efforts to the arts, communication, and greater humanity. Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon screenwriter Adele Lim ‘96; composer and singer Toshi Reagon; and Emerson Trustee, founder and chairman of Samuels & Associates, and film producer Steve Samuels each received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees. Lim ‘96 gave the commencement address.
“I admire your sense of community, of social justice, fairness, and your willingness to use your voice in the pursuit of those ideals,” said Interim President William Gilligan in the President’s Address at the ceremony. “The world needs you now to continue that with all the skills and knowledge you have acquired, the values you have developed and displayed, and that indomitable Emerson spirit that you have shown us often.”
Commencement speaker Adele Lim ‘96, said, “I am far from done, but what I hope for myself, for all of us, for all of you, is what all great stories have: a journey that is authentic and meaningful, and if we’re lucky, one that touches the lives of others.”
Local Residents Named to Dean’s List
The following local residents were named to Clark University’s Spring 2022 Dean’s List:
• Nicholas P. Morrow, of Jamaica Plain was named to second honors.
• Sam M. Lapowsky, of Jamaica Plain was named to first honors.
Students must have a GPA of 3.8 or above for first honors or a GPA between 3.50 and 3.79 for second honors.
Founded in 1887, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university that prepares its students to meet tomorrow’s most daunting challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. Through 33 undergraduate majors, more than 30 advanced degree programs, and nationally recognized community partnerships, Clark fuses rigorous scholarship with authentic world and workplace experiences that empower our students to pursue lives and careers of meaning and consequence.
Murray Named to Dean’s List at Bates College
Sadie Murray of Jamaica Plain was named to the dean’s list at Bates College for the winter semester ending in April 2022. This is a distinction earned by students whose grade point average is 3.92 or higher.
Murray, the daughter of Terrence J. Murray and Nicole S. Murray, is a 2018 graduate of Milton Academy. She is a junior at Bates majoring in sociology and minoring in education.
Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. Committed to opportunity and excellence, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion, or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.
Ockene Named to Dean’s List
Misha Ockene from Jamaica Plain has been named to St. Lawrence University’s Dean’s List for achieving academic excellence during the Spring 2022 semester.
Ockene attended Brookline High School. Ockene is a member of the Class of 2025.To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must have completed at least four courses and have an academic average of 3.6 based on a 4.0 scale for the semester.
UW-Madison Announces 2022 Graduates
About 7,700 students received degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 13 and 14, including .Sara Pratt, College of Agricultural and Life Science who earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Life Sciences Communication.
There were two live ceremonies: one at the Kohl Center on May 13 for doctoral, MFA and medical students; and one at Camp Randall on May 14 for undergraduate, law and master’s students.
Tufts Announces Local Graduates
Approximately 3,275 students across all schools graduated from Tufts University on May 22 during a university-wide commencement ceremony that featured the awarding of honorary degrees to a number of academic, business and civic leaders making a positive impact on the world.
The graduates from the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering included:
• Miles Reid of JamaicaPlain graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
• Magda Petmeza of Jamaica Plain graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art
In addition to the degree conferral, the ceremony featured an address by award-winning historian, scholar, and writer Erika Lee.
Tufts University, located on campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville and Grafton, Massachusetts, and in Talloires, France, is recognized among the premier research universities in the United States. Tufts enjoys a global reputation for academic excellence and for the preparation of students as leaders in a wide range of professions. A growing number of innovative teaching and research initiatives span all Tufts campuses, and collaboration among the faculty and students in the undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across the university’s schools is widely encouraged.