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Local Students Named to Dean's List at the University of Vermont
Ellington's Kerry Sawamura and Somers' Nathan Gasek were recognized for academic achievement for the Fall semester.

The following area students have been named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2012 semester at the University of Vermont:
Kerry L. Sawamura, of Ellington, a junior majoring in Professional Nursing in the College of Nursing & Health Sciences.
Nathan S. Gasek, of Somers, a first-year majoring in Biology in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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To be named to the Dean's Lists, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.
Chartered in 1791, UVM was the first college or university in the United States that did not give preference to a religious sect in its charter. UVM now has nearly 10,490 undergraduates in seven schools and colleges, 1,540 graduate students and 449 medical students. As a small, comprehensive university, it blends the academic heritage of a private university with service missions in the land-grant tradition.
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