Items of interest

Lakeside grad named National Merit Scholar

EVANSTON, Ill. — A Lakeside High School graduate was named Monday among 550 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.

Luke Long, of Hot Springs, received the National Merit University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Scholarship, and plans to study physics.

Long and other Merit Scholar designees join approximately

3,500 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

This year, 178 colleges and universities are sponsoring more than 4,000 Merit Scholarship awards. Sponsor colleges include 100 private and

78 public institutions located in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

This final group of winners brings the number of

2018 National Merit Scholars to more than 7,500. These distinguished high school graduates will receive scholarships for undergraduate study worth a total of over

$31 million. In addition to college-sponsored awards, two other types of National Merit Scholarships were offered —

2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships, for which all Finalists competed, and approximately 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who met criteria specified by their granter organizations.

Ledbetter named to spring honor roll

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Charles Ledbetter, of Hot Springs, made the Oregon State University’s Scholastic Honor Roll spring term 2018.

Ledbetter, post-baccalaureate, computer science, earned straight A’s for the spring semester.

A total of 1,361 students earned straight-A, 4.0 gradepoint averages. Another 4,261 earned a 3.5 GPA or better to make the listing. To be on the Honor Roll, students must carry at least 12 graded hours of course work.

Local student receives Transfer scholarship

Arkansas Tech University recently announced that Karl Lowry, of Hot Springs, received the Phi Theta Kappa Transfer Scholarship for the fall 2018 semester.

The $3,000 scholarship is awarded on academic merit and has a total potential value of $18,000 over three years.

Local law students make U of A dean’s list

FAYETTEVILLE — Nine University of Arkansas School of Law students from Hot Springs earned 3.0 grade-point averages or higher during the spring 2018 semester and were named to the dean’s list.

• Deborah Renee’ Autrey, a third-year law student.

• Cameron Alister Brewer, a second-year law student.

• Chris Edward Hearnsberger, a second-year law student.

• Connor Mark Herrold, a second-year law student.

• Kathryn Hilda Sue Hiett, a second-year law student.

• Jordan Alexandra Honey, a second-year law student.

• Jordan Ranae McNary, a second-year law student.

• Zachary Austin Shackelford, a third-year law student.

• Mary Elizabeth Wright, a first-year law student.

Local students graduate from University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville recently announced the following local students who graduated at the end of the spring 2018 semester.

HOT SPRINGS

April Abiera, Alexis Acello, David Alvarez, Deborah Autrey, Andrew Best, Alexandra Boyd, Colton Bryant, Jonathon Carlson, Catherine Chandler, Emily Cole, John Criss, Rebecca Davidson, Rachel Dawson, Courtney Dodd, Emilee Emery, Ulonda Frazier, Matthew Fulenwider, Madison Gardner, Luke Garner, Casey Gibson, Seth Gilchrist, Victoria Hendrix, Marcie Hermann, Craig Hinman, Samuel Johnsen, Elizabeth Kanopsic, Jesse Keener, Justin Lee, Carly Liggett, Allison Loy, Victoria Maness, Adrienne Merriott, Katherine Morton, Nickolas Newton, Christopher Nunez, Josephine Pigeon, Kaylee Rauso, Samantha Ruff, Benjamin Sanders, William Scott, Zachary Shackelford, Vanessa Smtih, Sean Street, April Walker, Shane White, David Zhong.

JESSIEVILLE

Christian Carnahan, Jacob Cottrell, Maggie Ford.

PEARCY

Gabriel Collins, Jordan Davidson, Mollie Dykes, Lane Graves, William Harris, Whitney Henry, Victoria Hunt, Suzana Ivandic, Ashley Lewis, Logan Kirchen, Ana Micula.

UCA announces May 2018 graduates

CONWAY — The University of Central Arkansas held its commencement ceremonies May 5 in the Jeff Farris Health and Physical Education Center.

The university conferred 1,290 degrees during three ceremonies.

Local graduates included the following:

HOT SPRINGS

Rilee Bryant, Haley Evans, Lindsey Fant, Jesi Feld, Valerie Fugate, Brittany George, Rusten Godwin, Seth Harper, Andrew Hefner, Darrian Huskey, Kristen Jones, Taylor Mann, Michelle Moore, Andree Muldoon, Smitha Patel, Trista Reon, Amber Riling, Elyse Rucker, Austin Rutledge, Sara Schaffner, Ronald Seymour, Cameron Sharpe, Kristin Shults, Amanda Skaggs, Tawny Smedley, Courtney Thompson, Alexandria Tillery, Samantha Wacaster, Jonathan Wiles.

HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE

Alice Stephens.

LONSDALE

Abigail McAtee.

MOUNTAIN PINE

Kelley Gould, Sawyer Harris. Alexander Denker, Kristyn Killian.