COLLEGE Notes

Mount Mercy congratulates spring Dean’s List honorees

Students with a semester grade point average of 3.60 or better, and who are graded (letter grade, not pass/fail) for six or more semester hours, are eligible for inclusion on the Dean’s List. The following students from the area made the Dean’s List for the 2021 spring semester: – Cottage Grove, MN

Jayna Witzany

– Woodbury, MN

Brianna Cross

About Mount Mercy

Located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mount Mercy University is the regional Catholic, Mercy University that promises students of diverse backgrounds, ages and faiths a challenging, practical education that inspires them to discover knowledge, build community and lead courageous lives. Mount Mercy offers baccalaureate and graduate education to 1,800+ enrolled students and uniquely blends an outstanding liberal arts education with equally outstanding professional preparation. To learn more, readers may visit www.mtmercy.edu.

Local students among graduates at UW-Eau Claire The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire awarded 1,462 degrees in May. Of the degrees awarded, 1,433 were received by students attending the Eau Claire campus and 29 were received by students attending UW-Eau Claire – Barron County. Local students who received degrees and their fields of study are: Cottage Grove, MN

Cameron Anderson, Education and Human Sciences, Bachelor of Music Education, music, Eau Claire Caitlyn Behr, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, marketing, Eau Claire Violet Doolittle, Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, integrated strategic communication, Eau Claire Alyssa Gilbert, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, information systems, Eau Claire Sarah Glasow, Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Science, biology and Spanish, Eau Claire Avery Hansen, Education and Human Sciences, Bachelor of Social Work, social work, Eau Claire Olivia Horvath, Education and Human Sciences, Bachelor of Science, communication sciences and disorders, Eau Claire Cassandra Klinga, Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, theatre arts, Eau Claire Michael Maurer, Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, music, Eau Claire Caleb Nunn, Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Science, physics, Eau Claire Alexandra Opse, Education and Human Sciences, Bachelor of Science, mathematics, Eau Claire Hastings, MN

Maria Kummer, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, economics and business finance, Eau Claire Woodbury, MN

Melaney Barba, Business, Master of Business Administration, business administration, Eau Claire Benjamin Franks, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, health care administration, Eau Claire Killian Griffin, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, management, Eau Claire James Huntley, Education and Human Sciences, Bachelor of Science, rehabilitation science, Eau Claire Dane Iverson, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, business finance, Eau Claire Siri LeMay, Education and Human Sciences, Bachelor of Science, communication sciences and disorders, Eau Claire Scout McCullum, Nursing and Health Sciences, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, nursing, Eau Claire Charles Meier, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, management, Eau Claire Jenica Monkman, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, health care administration, Eau Claire Alexander Olson, Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Science, English, Eau Claire Tyler Plath, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, business administration, Eau Claire Thomas Printon, Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Science, biology, Eau Claire Ryan Rogers, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration, business finance, Eau Claire About the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Founded in 1916 as an outgrowth of the Wisconsin idea, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has long had a commitment to excellence. With an assortment of majors to choose from, readers can learn more by traveling online to www.uwec.edu.

Minnesota State Mankato Announced 2021 Spring Semester Dean’s List The Academic High Honor and Honor lists (Dean’s lists) for the past spring semester at Minnesota State University, Mankato have been announced by interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Matt Cecil.

Among 3,608 students, a total of 1,070 students qualified for the High Honor List by achieving a 4.0 straight “A” average, while 2,538 students earned a 3.5 to 3.99 average to qualify for the Honor List.

To qualify for academic honors, undergraduate students must be enrolled for at least 12 credit hours for the semester. Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,604 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 30 colleges and seven universities. Below are qualifying students for the Spring Dean’s List: Cottage Grove, MN

Noah Acree, Honor List Laine Aeilts, Honor List Eric Conner, Honor List Daymen Cox, Honor List Alison Derry, Honor List Isabel Folkerts, Honor List William Hallock, Honor List Caden Kemmetmueller, Honor List Grace Knutson, High Honor List Joshua Lester, Honor List Rachel Lindahl, High Honor List Valeriya Rydeen, Honor List Lea Schlinger, Honor List Kaitlyn Schmitz, High Honor List Nathnael Tegegne, Honor List Michaela Thole, Honor List Simon Thomas, Honor List Emma Toth, High Honor List Ariel Villeda, Honor List Hastings, MN

Whitney Blattner, Honor List Hayley Bocock, Honor List Lydia Carda, Honor List Joseph Carlson, Honor List Alyssa Edmonson, High Honor List Cole Harp, Honor List Lindsey Henrichsen, Honor List Addison Hoffman, Honor List Tessa Hubley, Honor List Dominick Kaphing, Honor List Jack Klimek, Honor List Leah Knoll, Honor List Chloe Larimer, Honor List Lacey Lundholm, Honor List Dylan McCarville, Honor List Halleluyaa Mi’eessaa, Honor List Bethle Radiate, Honor List Macee Reinardy, High Honor List Morgan Reinardy, Honor List Amanda Thompson, Honor List Brooke Tusa, Honor List Cassandra Wenzel, Honor List Joseph Werner, Honor List Griffin Wise, Honor List St. Paul, MN

AnnMarie Ward, Honor List

Woodbury, MN

Benazir Jaffar Ali, High Honor List Cole Angell, Honor List Jackline Bickford, Honor List Kayla Binsfeld, High Honor List Lauren Bookler, Honor List Andrew Bravo, High Honor List Catherine Burdette, Honor List Claire Cater, Honor List Lucas Coquyt, Honor List Kaitlyn Dabney, High Honor List Megan Danley, Honor List Joey Erickson, Honor List Madison Hogan, Honor List Jonas Holtmeier, High Honor List Zachary Huppert, Honor List Cynthia Kiraguri, Honor List Matthew Klukas, Honor List Adele Liu, Honor List Maxwell Mahoney, Honor List Colton McKee, High Honor List Mark Morrison, Honor List Courtney Peper, High Honor List Taylor Peterfeso, Honor List Selena Quesada, Honor List Rachel Rana, Honor List Abigail Stensland, Honor List Catherine Torbert, Honor List Nancy Valdovinos, Honor List Brooke Valiukas, High Honor List Emily Vo, High Honor List Brehna Walz, Honor List Abigail Williams, Honor List Emily Yang, Honor List About Minnesota State Mankato

From its founding in 1868 as Mankato Normal School, serving 27 students, this has been an institution where big ideas meet real-world thinking.

The school became Mankato State Teachers College in 1921, Mankato State College in 1957 and Mankato State University in 1975. In 1998, it took the name that stands today—Minnesota State University, Mankato. Although our first graduates earned one-or two-year degrees to become teachers, the University has been granting four-year degrees in a growing number of disciplines since 1927. The first master’s degrees were awarded in 1954, and the first doctorate was conferred in 2009. To learn more, readers can go to the university website at mankato.mnsu.edu.

UW-La Crosse announces spring 2021 Dean’s List The following area students have been named to the Dean’s List at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for the spring semester of the 2020-21 academic year, ending May 2021.

Qualification for the Dean’s List is limited to students who have attained outstanding academic achievement. To be eligible, students must have earned not less than a 3.5 semester grade point average and carried a minimum of 12 credits. Students on the Dean’s List from the area include: Cottage Grove, MN

Claire Boudreau, Middle Childhood through Early Adolescence Education Major Calley Dolan, Management Major Elena Draheim, Exercise and Sport Science Major: Exercise Science – Pre-professional Track Brandon Petrie, Finance Major: Risk, Insurance and Financial Planning Concentration Luke Rislove, Biology Major Josey Sorenson, Biology Major Sophia Sorenson, Biochemistry Major with American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Certification Grace Tester, Early Childhood through Middle Childhood Education Major Adeline Walton, Exercise and Sport Science Major: Exercise Science – Pre-professional Track Paige Witt, Finance Major: Risk, Insurance and Financial Planning Concentration Hastings, MN

Tori Brake, Public Health and Community Health Education Major Olivia Langworthy, Physics Major Lauren Rohr, Psychology Major Jacob Streeter, Finance Major Levi Zak, Social Studies Education Major (Broad Field Option A) Woodbury, MN

Jacob Gundvaldson, Undeclared Major – CBA Alison Kath, Early Childhood through Middle Childhood Education Major Mikayla Lash, Psychology Major Isabel Praska, Microbiology Major: Biomedical Concentration Heidi Rogers, Undeclared Major – CBA Kristin Tollefson, Exercise and Sport Science Major: Exercise Science – Pre-professional Track About UW-La Crosse

UW-La Crosse, founded in 1909, is one of the 13 institutions in the University of Wisconsin System. UWL has more than 10,500 full and part-time students enrolled in 101 undergraduate, 28 graduate and two doctoral academic programs. UW-La Crosse with web address at www.uwlax.edu is also the state’s top-ranked public or private higher education institution by U.S. News & World Reports for master’s degree institutions and has been ranked among the top Midwestern public institutions for more than a decade. UW-La Crosse remains one of only two Wisconsin colleges to consistently make Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the top 100 best values nationwide in public colleges.

Local Students Graduate from Drake University The following local students graduated from Drake University at the end of the spring 2021 semester.

Cottage Grove, MN

Tuong Vy Pham, Pharm.D., Pharmacy Kristine Schwietz, Pharm.D., Pharmacy

Hastings, MN

Jacob Bacon, M.B.A., Business Administration Josephine Pechous, B.A., Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology Saint Paul, MN

Joseph Romain, B.S.B.A., Entrepreneurial Management/ Finance

About Drake University

Drake University is a midsize, private university in Des Moines, Iowa, enrolling nearly 3,000 undergraduate and more than 1,800 graduate students. Students choose from over 70 majors, minors, and concentrations and 20 graduate degrees offered through seven colleges and schools. Drake students, faculty, and staff take advantage of the wealth of cultural, recreational, and business opportunities found in Iowa’s capital city. In return, Drake enriches the city through its own cultural offerings, considerable economic impact, and many service- learning endeavors, which channel the talent and energy of the Drake students toward meeting the needs of the community.

University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) Announces Dean’s List for Spring Semester 2021 The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) has announced its Dean’s List for Spring Semester 2021. Students on the Dean’s List have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Consisting of four different colleges (College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP); Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE); and the Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE)), below are the students that made the UMD Dean’s List for Spring 2021: Cottage Grove, MN

Adefemi I Adewola, Sophomore, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Business Steven M Berg, Freshman, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Business Aaron M Bouillon, Senior, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Accounting B Acc Hunter M Buth, Senior, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Graphic Design B F A Wyatt B Corrigan, Sophomore, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Business Matthew J Dreyling, Sophomore, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Accounting Alec S Fjelsta, Sophomore, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Pre Art Education K – 12 Erin N Glancey, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biology B A Andrew J Hawn, Junior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biology B S Colyn J Leary, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Chemistry B S Avery A Lynch, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Pre Social Work Yoselin T Martinez, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Exercise Rehab Sci B A Sc Victoria L Michaud, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biology B A Christian F Moreno Cova, Senior, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Jazz Studies B Mus Megan L Morris, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Early Childhood B A Sc Tyler R Muellner, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biology B A Briana Mullan, Junior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Integr Elem and Spec Ed B A Sc Bjorn D Olson, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Exercise Rehab Sci B A Sc Bradley J Ostrom, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biology B S Alison Pomerleau, Senior, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Finance B B A and Economics B B A Jacob J Todd, Senior, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Accounting B Acc Dominic J Treber, Sophomore, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Criminology B A Luke Verbout, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Chemical Engineering BS Ch E Jack R Wagner, Senior, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Finance B B A Laylia J Yang, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biochemistry B A and Hispanic Studies Hastings, MN

Shari Kleis, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Civil Engineering B S C E Taeler McVicker, Senior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Pre Teaching Mathematics Shawn P Monahan, Senior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Psychology B A Sc Michael W Onnen, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Pre Civil Engineering Derek W Rupe, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Environmental Science B S Sophia M Schroepfer, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biology B S

Saint Paul, MN

Max T Buchholz, Junior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Computer Science B S Kyle W Clark, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Pre Chemical Engineering Ella G England, Freshman, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Pre Psychology Alexia-Chanel P Gelao, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Psychology B A Sc Jessica Johnson, Junior, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Graphic Design B F A Avery G Shoemaker, Sophomore, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Graphic Design BFA Karli N Young, Junior, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Business Woodbury, MN

Grace L Ball, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Pre Communication Sci/Disorder Jonathan D Biddick, Sophomore, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Business Lindsay M Carlson, Senior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Exercise Rehab Sci B A Sc Erin M Casanova, Senior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Psychology B A Sc Amber L Collodora, Senior, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Accounting B Acc Lexie N Decker, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Pre Teaching Social Studies Maria C Devine, Junior, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Communication B A Makenzie Fetch, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Exercise Rehab Sci B A Sc Rachel L Fine, Freshman, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biology B S Jillian D Heimerman, Sophomore, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Pre Law Luke Hjort, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Pre Physical Education Morgan J Hohn, Senior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Communication Sci/Disord BASc Jeffrey Kangas, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Mechanical Engineering BSME Lauren N LeBourgeois, Senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Biochemistry B S Garrett M Lindholm, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Pre Teaching Social Studies Samuel R Luchsinger, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Psychology B A Sc Wade D Mischler, Junior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Pre Mechanical Engineering Bailey M Misura, Senior, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Graphic Design B F A Lindsey N Morgan, Senior, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Criminology B A Anna M Muellner, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Environmental Science B S Allison S Musser, Freshman, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Undeclared Salahadine M Osman, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Pre Chemical Engineering Shawna Reagan, Senior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Communication Sci/Disord BASc Ariana Smieja, Sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Psychology B A Sc Cody J Sundberg, Freshman, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Mathematics B S Emma T Symalla, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Chemistry B S Stefano P Taddeini, Sophomore, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Business Charles Whisler, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Pre Mechanical Engineering Alec D Wittman, Sophomore, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Management BBA Jacob D Wittman, Sophomore, Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), Pre Industrial Engineering Emily P Yang, Freshman, Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), Pre Business Alyssa L Yourczek, Senior, College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP), Communication Sci/Disord BASc About the University of Minnesota at Duluth

One of five locations for the University of Minnesota, the Duluth campus has four different colleges and over 150 majors and minors, with something all but sure to engage your curiosity. To learn more, go to d.umn.edu.