Local Students Named to Spring Dean's Lists

Meghan O'Grady, of Fort Washington, has been placed on the Gettysburg College Dean's Honor list for outstanding academic achievement in the Spring 2013 semester.

Students with a quality point average of 3.60 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) for a semester's work are placed on the College's Dean's Honor List.

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

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Benjamin Samuel Zod of Fort Washington, PA (19034), was named to the Dean's List for the spring 2013 semester at Washington University in St. Louis. Zod is enrolled in the university's College of Arts & Sciences.

To qualify for the Dean's List in the College of Arts & Sciences, students must earn a semester grade point average of 3.6 or above and be enrolled in at least 14 graded units.

Washington University is counted among the world's leaders in teaching and research, and it draws students and faculty to St. Louis from all 50 states and more than 120 nations. The total student body is more than 14,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

The approximately 3,400 faculty teach in seven schools: Arts & Sciences, Brown School, Olin Business School, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, School of Engineering & Applied Science, School of Law and School of Medicine. Twenty-three Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University, with nine doing the major portion of their pioneering research there.

The university offers more than 90 programs and almost 1,500 courses leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in a broad spectrum of traditional and interdisciplinary fields, with additional opportunities for minor concentrations and individualized programs.

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Marilee Gallagher, a senior communications major from Fort Washington, Pa. was named to the Dean's List at Chestnut Hill College for the Spring 2013 semester.

Students are named to the Dean's List if they have achieved a G.P.A of 3.6 or higher, and are recognized at Opening Convocation held in the Fall semester.

About Chestnut Hill College

Chestnut Hill College is a four-year coed Catholic college offering a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program, as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master's and doctoral programs. Since its inception, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life's challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.

For the second consecutive year, Chestnut Hill College earned recognition as one of 26 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institutions to receive the Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence. The Presidents' Award honors NCAA athletic programs with four-year academic success rates of 90 or greater.

The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best master's universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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The following students were named to the Dean's List of Thomas Jefferson University for the Spring 2013 semester.

Savan Patel, a BiosciTech-Cytotechnology(3+1) student and resident of Fort Washington, PA.

Colleen Young, a Nursing, BSN to MSN (Generic) student and resident of Fort Washington, PA.

At the end of each academic term, recognition on the Dean's List for Distinguished Academic Achievement is awarded to students enrolled in undergraduate programs, with no fewer than 12 credit hours per semester, who achieved a minimum grade point average of at least 3.50 for the term.

Thomas Jefferson University, (TJU), the largest freestanding academic medical center in Philadelphia, is nationally renowned for medical and health sciences education and innovative research. Founded in 1824, TJU includes Jefferson Medical College (JMC), one of the largest private medical schools in the country and ranked among the nation's best medical schools by U.S. News & World Report, and the Jefferson Schools of Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions, Population Health and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Jefferson University Physicians is TJU's multi-specialty physician practice consisting of the full-time faculty of JMC. Thomas Jefferson University partners with its clinical affiliate, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. For more information, visit www.jefferson.edu.

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Loyola University Maryland has announced the members of its spring 2013 Dean's List. In order to qualify for the Dean's List at Loyola, a student must have a GPA of at least 3.5 with a minimum of 15 credits. The following local students have achieved this honor:

• Catherine Brown, a member of the class of 2014 from Fort Washington

• Amanda Dougherty, a member of the class of 2014 from Fort Washington

Established in 1852, Loyola University Maryland is a Catholic, Jesuit comprehensive university comprising Loyola College, home to the University's arts and sciences programs; the Sellinger School of Business and Management; and the School of Education. Loyola enrolls 3,700 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students from across the country.

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Alexander Weiss of Fort Washington, PA, made the Dean's List for spring semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 3.0 or higher academic average for the semester.

Georgia Tech is one of the nation's leading research universities, providing a focused, technologically based education to more than 21,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The Institute has many nationally recognized programs and is ranked in the nation's top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. For more information, visit www.gatech.edu.