The University of Wisconsin-Madison has recognized students named to the Dean's List for the spring semester of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Students who achieve at a high level academically are recognized by the dean at the close of each semester. To be eligible for the Dean's List, students must complete a minimum of 12 graded degree credits in that semester. Each university school or college sets its own GPA requirements for students to be eligible to receive the distinction. Most call the honor "Dean's List", but some grant the "Dean's Honor List" and "Dean's High Honor List."
To view an online listing, visit http://registrar.wisc.edu/deans_list.htm. For questions or concerns about eligibility, please contact deanslist-registrar@em.wisc.edu
Below are the students from your circulation area who have received this honor:

  • Adam Vesole, School of Business, Dean's List from Bettendorf
  • Mehmet Badur, College of Engineering, Dean's Honor List from Moline
  • Evan Price, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Dean's List from Moline
  • Andrew Hoogerwerf, College of Engineering, Dean's Honor List from Rock Island

AMES, Iowa - More than 6,250 Iowa State University undergraduates have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the 2013 spring semester Dean's List. Students named to the Dean's List must have earned a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded course work.

Students listed below qualified for the Dean's List

Bettendorf, IA
Alison Marie Aquino, Kinesiology and Health;
John Morgan Beck, Biology (AGLS);
Carolyn Elizabeth Bennie, Psychology;
Jamie Marie Blaser, Event Management;
Stephanie Ann Blaser, Dietetics (H SCI);
Jessica Marie Blaum, English;
James Dewey Boddie, Software Engineering;
Kimberly Ann Booe, Chemical Engineering;
Matthew Roger Brown, Management Information Systems;
Molly Rebecca Bryant, Journalism and Mass Communication;
Sarah Anne Buck, Psychology;
Kailey Victoria Bueker, Elementary Education;
Erin Elizabeth Claeys, Chemical Engineering;
Elizabeth Rose Coffman, English;
Rachel Erin Dolehanty, Elementary Education;
Gabriel S. Domingues, Agricultural Systems Technology;
Madeline Skye Duque, Marketing;
Dillan P. Dwyer, Mechanical Engineering;
Zachary J. Edwards, Accounting;
Brendan David Elizondo, Interdisciplinary Studies;
Safwan Elkhatib, Kinesiology and Health;
Katherine E. Finnegan, Animal Ecology;
Taylor Marikey Finney, Apparel, Merchandising, and Design;
Christopher Joseph Foss, Mechanical Engineering;
Elizabeth Anne Fry, Kinesiology and Health;
Jenna Corinne Fussell, Biology;
Taylor Marie Gibney, Mechanical Engineering;
Jeremy Thomas Gillam, Mechanical Engineering;
Justin James Gizicki, Agronomy;
Amanda Michelle Haffarnan, Nutritional Science (H SCI);
Amanda Erin Hale, Communication Studies;
Jiyeon Han, Microbiology;
Andrew J. Hartman, Computer Engineering;
Natalie S. Heiderscheit, History;
Kelly Marie Hering, Psychology;
Tyler J. Hoelting, Pre-Athletic Training;
Carolyn Anne Johnson, Animal Science;
Kelsey Lynn Kraft, Construction Engineering;
Elizabeth Ilene Larsen, Psychology;
Mikaela Marie Leners, Physics;
Jesse William Leonard, Mechanical Engineering;
Lance Tyler Lipovic, Graphic Design;
Samantha Ann Matt, Open Option (LAS);
Mara McConnell, Linguistics;
Thomas Ray McGee, Industrial Engineering;
Christopher P. Meadows, Mechanical Engineering;
Tyler Benjamin Meseke, Biology;
Amanda Lauren Miller, Kinesiology and Health;
Matthew Henderson Miller, Political Science;
Brock Robert Mills, Psychology;
Emily Jeanne Misak, English;
Mary Kate Misak, Event Management;
Catherine Helen Mullen, Biology (AGLS);
Amanda Lee Oswald, Civil Engineering;
Emily M. Oswald, Psychology;
James Vance Park, Biology;
Katelynn E. Piotter, Elementary Education;
Keaton Michael Sandeman, Environmental Science (AGLS);
Caleb D. Schulze, Electrical Engineering;
Grant Bradley Sherrard, Animal Science;
Amrinder Singh, Biology (AGLS);
Brian Christopher Sipple, Management Information Systems;
Benjamin Timothy Stecker, Kinesiology and Health;
Cameron B. Thompson, Computer Science;
Emma Grace Thompson, Kinesiology and Health;
Joshua C. Thompson, Physics;
Andrew J. Tjaden, Pre-Business;
Erin Cathleen Toohey, Biology (AGLS);
Emory Stephen Traicoff, Mechanical Engineering;
Heather M. Vandewostine, Veterinary Medicine;
Kelly Ann Wagner, Dietetics (H SCI);
Chad Edward Wisham, Civil Engineering;
Robert W. Wright, Industrial Engineering;
Samantha Christine Zust, Kinesiology and Health;


Court, IA
Courtney Brianne Thompson, Dietetics (H SCI);


Davenport, IA
Grant L. Albansoder, Civil Engineering;
Joshua John Arguello, Architecture-Professional Degree;
Ashley M. Arnold, Anthropology;
Beth Anne Baustian, Dietetics (H SCI);
Heather Nicole Bennett, Sociology;
Nathan Joseph Bierl, Music;
Bethanie Marie Blake, Architecture-Professional Degree;
Callie Renee Blake, Elementary Education;
Molly E. Bridges, Elementary Education;
Rebecca Joy Briesmoore, Civil Engineering;
Matthew Samuel Brueggen, Finance;
Margaret Marie Carlin, Community and Regional Planning;
Abigail Nicole Clevenger, Animal Science;
Neal Robert Crooks, Aerospace Engineering;
Elizabeth Marie Doebel, Mathematics;
Jacob Patrick Fennelly, Accounting;
Trevor Murphy Fennelly, Finance;
Ashley Nicole Freese, Event Management;
Marinda R. Gacke, Biology (AGLS);
Brittany Grosskopf, Environmental Science (LAS);
Christopher Thomas Harre, Civil Engineering;
Troysheana Q. Hawkins, Liberal Studies;
Kathleen Marie Hoil, Performing Arts;
Amanda Rose Holtman, Landscape Architecture;
Christine Nicole Jensen, Aerospace Engineering;
Kayla Marie Kaasa, Biology (AGLS);
Malcolm Andrew Kelly, Mechanical Engineering;
Joseph Valarius Kern, Construction Engineering;
Danielle Marie Kimler, Electrical Engineering;
Nicholas Aaron King, Landscape Architecture;
Emerald Patricia Klauer, Graphic Design;
Joseph Edward Kopacz, Mechanical Engineering;
Austin Miles Laugen, Computer Engineering;
Kristina Ann Lund, Family Finance, Housing and Policy;
Amanda Margaret Malin, History;
Megan Elizabeth Maller, Music;
Vanessa Lynn McNeal, Child, Adult, and Family Services;
Gregory Paul Miers, Supply Chain Management;
Jacob M. Neff, Chemical Engineering;
Sarah Maria Neighbour, Graphic Design;
Emily Mary Neubauer, Elementary Education;
Hanna Thi Nguyen, Mechanical Engineering;
Kara Nhu Nguyen, Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management;
Amanda Leanne Pastrnak, Advertising;
Bailey Christine Randone, Communication Studies;
Brylee S. Raupp-Timmons, Computer Engineering;
Erin Bates Sickels, Kinesiology and Health;
Brian Vincent Skalak, Advertising;
Matthew J. Skoglund, Chemical Engineering;
Aaron Wayne Stechmann, Industrial Technology;
Matthew James Stegemann, Electrical Engineering;
Cody Michael Thiessen, Mechanical Engineering;
Amanda Michelle Trammell, Animal Science;
Sarah Jane Vance, Pre-Graphic Design;
Jeramie Lee Vens, Electrical Engineering;
Katherine Michelle Walton, Psychology;
Benjamin M. Wells, Mechanical Engineering;
Kelsie Deanne Witt, Apparel, Merchandising, and Design;
Connor S. Young, Biology;


Moline, IL
Evan Daniel Aubry, Landscape Architecture;
Kelsey Breann Carlson, Animal Science;
Amy Katharine Schaefer, Pre-Business;
Kevin Craig Shedd, Mechanical Engineering;
Caleb Jack Spiegel, Architecture-Professional Degree;
Steven Anthony Vogel, Pre-Business;


Rock Island, IL
Ryan Joseph Bush, Industrial Design;
Joseph Michael Johnson, Mechanical Engineering;
Daniel Joseph Siroky, Architecture-Professional Degree;

Organizes students to lobby against interest rate hike

CHICAGO - June 25, 2013. With interest rates on student loans set to double within a week, Lt. Governor Sheila Simon is working with Illinois students to lobby Congress to take action. For the second year in a row, Simon is encouraging students across the state to urge Congress to stop interest rates from doubling on July 1.

"The cost of college is a growing barrier for students to enroll in and complete college," said Simon, the state's point person on education reform. "If Congress allows interest rates to double, higher education will become too pricey for many more middle class families."

Student loan interest rates had previously been expected to double during the summer of 2012; however, students nationwide demanded change. Young people took to Facebook and Twitter asking their elected officials to take immediate action, and President Obama signed a temporary rate freeze. Simon has advocated for passage of a long-term solution that would avert the need for last-minute, piecemeal fixes.

In her first two years in office Simon visited each of Illinois' 48 community colleges and 12 public, four-year universities, hearing time and again that the cost of education is a growing strain on students and families throughout the state. Using that network, Simon on Wednesday will urge members of the Illinois delegation to endorse a solution and take action to prevent student loan rates from doubling.

The hike on federal subsidized loans to undergraduates would cost the average Illinois student more than $1,000 each year. In Illinois, there are more than 360,000 borrowers who would be affected.

To join in the effort, post on Facebook or Twitter with the hashtag #DontDoubleMyRate, or find contact information for your elected representative here.

"Students need to explain what $1,000 means to them, whether that's books, housing or the ability to enroll in the first place," Simon said. "Higher education is an equalizer. We cannot let students be priced out of school."

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STATESBORO, GA (06/25/2013)(readMedia)-- Georgia Southern University recently named 2,444 students as 2013 spring semester Dean's List honorees. Rebecca Alves from Davenport, IA has been named to the list for excellence in academics. To be eligible for the Dean's List, a student must have at least a 3.5 grade point average and carry a minimum of 12 hours for the semester.

Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers 125 degree programs serving more than 20,500 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu.

CONWAY, SC (06/25/2013)(readMedia)-- Coastal Carolina University welcomes the Class of 2017. Over 2,200 first-year students have enrolled in CCU for the Fall 2013 semester. Before classes begin in August, all new first-year students will visit campus for a two-day orientation program where they will meet their academic advisors and learn what is expected of them as they transition from high school to college.

Austin Kushmer of Moline

Madisen Keyes of Bettendorf

Coastal Carolina University is a dynamic, public comprehensive liberal arts institution located in Conway, South Carolina, just minutes from the resort area of Myrtle Beach. The University offers 65 areas of study toward the baccalaureate degree and seven master's degree programs.

More than 9,300 students from 44 states and 51 countries interact with a world-class faculty and enjoy a nationally competitive NCAA I athletic program, an inspiring cultural calendar, and a tradition of community interaction that is fueled by more than 160 student clubs and organizations.

Learn more: http://www.coastal.edu/

CHICAGO - Windy City Times and Center on Halsted are launching a 9-month series of LGBTQ educational programs featuring prominent scholars known nationally for their innovative research and work.

Lavender University is modeled on a project of the same name that operated for several years in the 1970s and 1980s, providing a wide range of interesting educational and skills-building programs.

"While some high schools and colleges are doing a better job at including LGBTQ issues in their curriculum, there is still a vast amount of LGBTQ work and history that is not being taught to youth and adults," said Tracy Baim, publisher of Windy City Times. "I really liked the Lavender University model and approached the Center on Halsted about partnering on a 9-month series. If it is well received, we hope to expand these programs for 2014, including to other areas of the city and suburbs."

"We are excited to present a diverse set of education programs," said Lynnea Karlic, director of programming for Center on Halsted. "We think this will appeal to teenagers, college students, adults and seniors, with such an incredible lineup of LGBTQ experts from our community."

Following are the speakers and topics in the first 9-month series. All of the programs are the first Saturday of the month at 11 a.m., except for the November program, which is a Sunday. The bottom of this press release gives more details on each program.

The lectures are at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted. Each lecture is $25; there are discounts available for multiple lectures, and a limited number of scholarships will also be available.

For reservations see: https://community.centeronhalsted.org/lavenderuniversity .

Questions can be directed to: publisher@windycitymediagroup.com or  lkarlic@centeronhalsted.org .

Sat., Sept. 7, 2013, 11am-1pm: John D'Emilio

No Race-Baiting, Red-Baiting, or Queer-Baiting:  The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union from Depression to Cold War

Sat. Oct 12, 2013, 11am-1pm: E. Patrick Johnson

Gathering Honey: Oral Histories of Black Southern Women Who Love Women

Sun. Nov. 3, 2013, 1pm-3pm, Golda Goldbloom

Working For Queer Acceptance: Finding Love Amongst the Religious Right

Sat., Dec. 7, 2013, 11am-1pm Owen Daniel-McCarter

Constitutional Law as it Applies to Transgender Prisoners

Sat., Jan. 4, 2014, 11am-1pm Hyacinth Piel

Ethical Problems in Gender Identity Construction

Sat., Feb. 1, 2014, 11am-1pm: Beth Richie

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America's Prison Nation

Sat., March 1, 2014, 11am-1pm Lourdes Torres

Making Familia from Scratch: Towards a History of Latina Lesbian Organizing in Chicago

Sat., April 5, 2014, 11am-1pm  Anne Balay

Steel Closets:  Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

Sat., May 3, 2014 11am-1pm Timothy Stewart-Winter

From Civil Rights to Gay Rights in Chicago

PROGRAM AND SPEAKER DETAILS:

Sat., Sept. 7, 2013, 11am-1pm: John D'Emilio

No Race-Baiting, Red-Baiting, or Queer-Baiting:  The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union from Depression to Cold War

John D'Emilio teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago.  A pioneer in the field of the history of sexuality, he has written or edited more than half a dozen books, including a history of pre-Stonewall activism and a biography of Bayard Rustin.  A former Board chair of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, he was the founding director of its Policy Institute.

In the 1930s, the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union became a multi-racial, left-wing, and queer-friendly labor union.  How was this possible?  What happened to the union?  And why has this history not come down to us?  Based on the research of Allan Berube, who was working on a history of the MCSU when he passed away unexpectedly in 2007, this talk with visuals will attempt to recreate this little known and inspiring episode in radical queer history.

Sat. Oct 12, 2013, 11am-1pm: E. Patrick Johnson

Gathering Honey: Oral Histories of Black Southern Women Who Love Women

E. Patrick Johnson is the Carlos Montezuma Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and African American Studies, Northwestern University.

As a follow-up to Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South-An Oral History, E. Patrick Johnson has begun working on a new oral history on black lesbians of the South, tentatively entitled, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women-An Oral History.       In his presentation, Johnson will discuss the challenges to conducting oral histories of black same gender loving women based not only on gender differences between his subjects and himself, but also the content of their stories. In addition, Johnson will share some of the women's stories through performance.

Sun. Nov. 3, 2013, 1pm-3pm, Golda Goldbloom

Working For Queer Acceptance: Finding Love Amongst the Religious Right

Goldie Goldbloom is a writer, a professor, a mother of 8, a trans mentor and a queer activist.

Goldbloom's award winning fiction has been published internationally. Her novel, The Paperbark Shoe, won the AWP Novel Award and was the Independent Publishers Literary Novel of the Year. She is a professor of creative writing at Northwestern University, and the mother of eight children. Goldie was a contributor to the groundbreaking anthology Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires, and continues to work as an activist in the Orthodox Jewish community for queer inclusion. She is a mentor for transgender youth.

Sat., Dec. 7, 2013, 11am-1pm Owen Daniel-McCarter

Constitutional Law as it Applies to Transgender Prisoners

Owen Daniel-McCarter is a transgender activist and attorney. He is co-founder and collective member of the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois which provides free, holistic, and gender-affirming legal advocacy to criminalized transgender and gender non-conforming people in Chicago and throughout Illinois prisons.

Sat., Jan. 4, 2014, 11am-1pm Hyacinth Piel

Ethical Problems in Gender Identity Construction

Hyacinth Piel is a graduate student in philosophy at UIC.  Ze lives in Edgewater with hir corgi, Poggibonsi.

This lecture begins with the idea that as people who seek to lead good and authentic lives, we are repeatedly confronted with profound and difficult questions about how best to develop, identify, and express our genders.  For one thing, the existential challenge we face as people capable of freedom includes a challenge (which often goes unacknowledged)  to lead our gendered lives in freedom and truth.  However, this demand that we strive to develop and express genders which are authentically ours becomes still more complicated when we recognize that gender roles as we know them are deeply implicated in a politically unjust system of gender domination: patriarchy.  Although our genders are uniquely our own existential projects, they are never only that: the way we live our genders is bound to affect others too, and since our existing gender templates are deeply influenced by the oppressive gender hierarchy from which they are drawn, it looks like the building blocks we must use to develop genders in which we can be free may also tend to threaten the freedom and well-being of those around us-- even, and perhaps especially, those we love the most.

Sat., Feb. 1, 2014, 11am-1pm: Beth Richie

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America's Prison Nation

Beth E. Richie, PhD is an anti-violence activist and author working in several social justice movements.  She is a Professor and Director or the Institute For Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC.

This lecture will focus on the ways that the prison industrial complex has served to exacerbate violence against Black women.  The emphasis will be on intimate partner abuse as well as systematic violence and the role that race, class, gender, sexuality and other markers of social disadvantage put people in the path of the punishment industry.  It will include the redemptive possibility of prison abolition as philosophical and practical solution.

Sat., March 1, 2014, 11am-1pm Lourdes Torres

Making Familia from Scratch: Towards a History of Latina Lesbian Organizing in Chicago

Lourdes Torres is  Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University.

Since the scholarship that exists on lesbian organizing in the Midwest neglects to engage with the history of Latina lesbian organizing, this project constitutes an effort to name Latina lesbians as agents of change and active subjects of a multiracial history of grassroots organizing. Torres writes: "I explore the history of two organizations in Chicago-Amigas Latinas, a Latina lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization that was founded in 1995 and is still in existence, and LLENA, an activist organization that existed from 1988 to 1992. I discuss the founding of LLENA and Amigas Latinas, the efforts of the organizations to create Latina lesbian visibility in both the 'Latino' and 'lesbian' social and political cultures of Chicago, and their successful and unsuccessful efforts to negotiate divergent national and ethnic histories, class and linguistic differences, and the diverse political stances of their membership. I also look at the coalition-building politics that the groups established with other Latino and queer communities in Chicago and internationally, their strategies for sustainability and finally, I discuss the enduring contributions of the two organizations."

Sat., April 5, 2014, 11am-1pm  Anne Balay

Steel Closets:  Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

Anne Balay is a scholar who has published work on fantasy fiction, children's time travel, and queer pedagogy.  She lives in Gary, Indiana.

Balay will summarize and discuss her new book, Steel Closets, which explores how sexuality and gender overlap in the sprawling steel mills of Northwest Indiana. Drawing from extensive, detailed oral histories taken of a previously silent and invisible population, it investigates how gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers interact with their co-workers, communities and families in the context of their physically demanding, risky work.  It explains how and why basic steel mills are inhospitable, even dangerous to queers, and demonstrate that we can't understand what it means to be GLBT without including working-class, blue-collar voices and stories.

Sat., May 3, 2014 11am-1pm Timothy Stewart-Winter

From Civil Rights to Gay Rights in Chicago

Timothy Stewart-Winter is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey

This talk is based on Stewart-Winter's forthcoming book on the rise of gay politics in Chicago since the 1950s. The talk will examine trace how black insurgency paved the way for Midwestern gay activists to challenge police brutality and job discrimination, and the complicated role of the emerging urban gay voting bloc in efforts to consolidate the civil rights revolution in a conservative era. At the same time, Stewart-Winter will examine how the gay movement's priorities changed in the course of a long struggle for a voice at city hall, and how African American queer activists confronted and challenged the increasing association between gay mobilization and the mostly white North Side lakefront gay enclaves.

ROCKFORD, IL (06/24/2013)(readMedia)-- Jesse Cole a resident of Erie, IL, was named to the Dean's List at Rockford College.

Students attending Rockford College were named to the Dean's List for the spring 2013 semester who earned at least a 3.5 GPA with no grades below "C."

Rockford College's Spring 2013 Dean's List includes those students who meet all requirements at the time the list is compiled. Students who have incomplete coursework as of the date the list is compiled are not included in the current list. This list should not be considered an official confirmation of award. Official confirmation will be recorded on students' transcripts.

EAST PEORIA, IL (06/24/2013)(readMedia)-- Hannah Patricia Torres, of Sterling, IL, was named to the Dean's List at Illinois Central College for the Spring 2013 semester. The academic honor is presented to students who earn a 3.5 to 3.99 grade point average on a 4.0 grading scale.

ROCHESTER, NY (06/24/2013)(readMedia)-- The following local residents made the Dean's List for Spring 2013 quarter at Rochester Institute of Technology:

  • John Dvorak of West Liberty, Iowa, (52776) is a fourth-year student in the computational mathematics program in RIT's College of Science.
  • Emma Nelson of Moline, Ill., (61265) is a fifth-year student in the software engineering program in RIT's B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.

Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts. In addition, the university offers unparalleled support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. RIT enrolls nearly 18,000 full- and part-time students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, and its cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.

MILWAUKEE, WI (06/24/2013)(readMedia)-- The following local students have graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis.:

Sean Templeman of Moline, IL. Templeman earned a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences.

Daniel Baumann of Sterling, IL. Baumann earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

Andrea Glasgow of Walcott, IA. Glasgow earned a Juris Doctor in Law.

Nikki Katschnig of Prophetstown, IL. Katschnig earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Benjamin Minnick of Sterling, IL. Minnick earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

Tara Vandygriff of Rock Island, IL. Vandygriff earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations.

These students were among the nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students who participated in the May 19, 2013 graduation ceremony at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.

Marquette University is a Catholic, Jesuit university that draws its more than 11,500 students from all 50 states and more than 75 different countries. In addition to its nationally recognized academic programs, Marquette is known for its service learning programs and internships as students are challenged to use what they learn to make a difference in the world. Find out more about Marquette at marquette.edu.

WINSTON SALEM, NC (06/21/2013)(readMedia)-- The following students were named to the Spring 2013 Dean's List at Wake Forest University.

Emily Guinn from Bettendorf, IA

Michael Herman from Davenport, IA

Students who achieve a 3.4 and no grade below a C were named to the list.

BOURBONNAIS, IL (06/21/2013)(readMedia)-- Olivet Nazarene University congratulates those students named to the dean's list during the recently completed spring 2013 semester. To qualify for inclusion on the dean's list, a student must have been enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student and must have attained a semester grade point average of 3.50 or higher on a 4.00 grading scale.

Local residents named to the list are:

Ryan Archer of Moline

Emily Arnold of Prophetstown

Lydia Bilyeu of Fulton

Derek Delgado of Sterling

Liza Dollenbacher of Bettendorf

Jordan Hirl of Clinton

Kaitlin Loos of Sterling

Jacob Mellinger of Moline

Hannah Milby of Sterling

Nicholas Mizeur of Moline

Ainsley Ports of Sterling

Hannah Rowen of East Moline

Olivet Nazarene University is an accredited Christian, liberal arts university offering more than 100 areas of undergraduate and graduate study, including the Doctor of Education in ethical leadership. Olivet has one main campus in Bourbonnais, Ill. - just 50 miles south of Chicago; three sites: Rolling Meadows and Oak Brook, Ill., and Hong Kong; and more than 100 School of Graduate and Continuing Studies learning locations throughout Chicagoland and the Midwest. From Oxford to Tokyo, hundreds of Olivet students also experience the global classroom each year, whether through study abroad opportunities or worldwide mission trips.

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