School briefs
Malvern alum recognized on WBC dean’s list
WALNUT RIDGE — Kayla Songer, a 2013 graduate of Malvern High School, was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Williams Baptist College.
The dean’s list is comprised of full-time students who earned a grade-point average of at least 3.5 during the semester.
Area students earn degrees from UAM
MONTICELLO — Five alumni of area high schools were among 454 students presented 476 awards during the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s May commencement exercises, according to information released by the UAM registrar’s office.
Graduates included:
Hot Springs
Taylor Culbreath, Bachelor of Business Administration; Benjamin Graves, Associate of Arts and a Bachelor of Business Administration.
Malvern
Jenna Coker, Bachelor of Science; Cody Smith, Bachelor of Science; Tyler Wright, Associate of Arts.
Driesel graduates from Missouri State
SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Chris Driesel, of Hot Springs, was recently among students to receive degrees during Missouri State University’s spring commencement on May 19 at JQH Arena.
Missouri State conferred 2,651 degrees to students. A total of 1,995 bachelor’s degrees, 554 master’s degrees, 93 doctorate degrees and nine specialist degrees were conferred.
Driesel graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship.
Nebraska dean’s list includes Jessieville alum
LINCOLN, NEB. — Jonathan Semmler, of Hot Springs Village, earned inclusion on the dean’s list at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the spring semester of the 2016-17 academic year.
Semmler graduated from Jessieville High School in 2016. He is a Biological Sciences major in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Qualification for the dean’s list varies among the eight undergraduate colleges. Students in the College of Arts and Sciences must earned a gradepoint average of at least 3.7 on a four-point scale and complete a minimum of 12 or more graded semester hours.
UAM announces spring chancellor’s, dean’s lists
MONTICELLO — Local students were among 170 University of Arkansas at Monticello students to be named to the chancellor’s list and another 304 named to the dean’s list, according to Carol Dolberry, registrar.
Selection to the chancellor’s list requires a grade-point average of 4.0 on at least 12 semester hours of course credit at the 1000-4000 level. Local students on the chancellor’s list are:
Bonnerdale
Jessica Rowland.
Malvern
Zackary McKnight.
The dean’s list requires a GPA of at least 3.5 on at least 12 semester hours of course credit at the 1000-4000 level. Local students included are:
Hot Springs
Benjamin Graves, Steven Mattox, Lynden Willis.
Malvern
Lindsey Southworth.
Royal
Ashley Newcomb.
FL, LH alumni make Alabama honors lists
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — Two graduates from local high schools were among 11,101 students enrolled at the University of Alabama during the spring semester to be named to the president’s list and dean’s list.
The honors lists recognize full-time undergraduate students. The lists do not apply to graduate students or undergraduate students who take less than a full course load.
Alana Cammack, a 2014 graduate of Fountain Lake Charter High School, was named to the president’s list, which includes students with an academic record of a 4.0 grade-point average for the semester.
Katie Atkinson, a 2015 graduate of Lake Hamilton High School, was named to the dean’s list, which recognizes students with an academic record of a GPA of at least 3.5 for the semester.
Arkansas Tech degrees focus on online crime
RUSSELLVILLE — Two new degrees coming to Arkansas Tech University in the fall will assist society in fighting the ever-increasing threat of online crime.
Arkansas Tech’s new Bachelor of Science and Associate of Applied Science degrees in cybersecurity were developed by and proposed by the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Computer and Information Science at ATU. Mohamed Abdelrahman, vice president for academic affairs, wrote in a memorandum presented to the ATU Board of Trustees the programs were developed “in response to the unprecedented rise in cyber threats nationwide.”
Abdelrahman wrote the baccalaureate program will prepare students “to understand how a threat occurs, how to prevent a
threat and how to recover from a threat,” while the associate program is “designed to prepare a student to support the cybersecurity professional in both prevention and recovery from a threat.”
Students interested in pursuing the cybersecurity degree programs may call the ATU Office of Admissions at 479-968-0343 or email tech.enroll@atu.edu.