Hillsborough resident Patty Manhart, a graduate student at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham in Madison, learned about South Asian culture while spending 16 days in Vietnam and Cambodia, on a study-abroad trip Jan. 4-19.
Sixteen students and three FDU faculty members visited sites of cultural interest in Hanoi, Ha Long, Quang Tri, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
This trip was an optional extra-credit component for the “Pacific Worlds” history class and the “Vietnam in Film and Literature,” an English class. “Pacific World” broadly covers the history of the cultures connected to the Pacific Ocean and the emergence of the early modern world in the 15th century through the era of globalization today.
Ms. Manhart is a graduate student in FDU’s five-year BA/MAT education program (QUEST). She graduated magna cum laude with her bachelor of arts in history from FDU last May. Ms. Manhart also recently completed her student teaching experience at Hillsborough High School.
Marin Santore of Hillsborough graduated in December from Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa.
Christine Fisher, a sophomore from Hillsborough, made the fall semester Dean’s List at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. To be eligible, full-time undergraduate students must achieve minimum of 3.5 on scale of 4.0.
Cuong Nguyen of Hillsborough earned a spot on the President’s List at Berkeley College’s Woodbridge location for achieving a grade-point average of 4.0 with a minimum of 12 academic credits.
A total of 37 Hillsborough students earned places on the dean’s list at The College of New Jersey in Ewing for the fall semester.
The students are:
Gabriel Randazzo, Paige Aiello, Nicholas Glass-Hardenbergh, Mariah McLaughlin, Megan Barlow, Valentine Kuntz, Julianna LoBiondo, Thomas Ploskonka, Michael Palantone, Irina Wiercinski, Kevin Barry, Stephanie Greenspan, Danielle Levine, Adam Bonanno, Julianne Giolli, Eman Hassan, Craig Ismaili, Jessica Gorham, Joseph Dicarlo, Jack Werner, Ryan Brzycki;
Also, Dana Landesman, Edward Brown, Carlin Dunne, Melissa Mattei, Catherine Meyer, Stephanie Pereira, Alyssa Mangel, Kathleen Burns, Heather Hollman, Elizabeth Magee, Jordan Martinez, Christian Rathbun, Stephanie Silleck, Ryan Chin, Philip Blackburn and Erin Suozzo.
To achieve this honor, a student must carry 12 or more credits that semester and have a 3.5 grade point average or above.
Daniel Richards was named to dean’s list at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, N.Y., for the fall semester. He received honors for achieving a grade-point average between 3.5 to 3.69.
Thomas Giangarra of Hillsborough, a freshman majoring in nursing at the University of South Carolina, was named to the deans list with a grade-point average of 3.8 on a 4.0 scale. The has also been admitted to the Alpha Lambda Delta national honor society.
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