Students named to UK Dean's list

The University of Kentucky recognized the outstanding academic performance of nine students from Grant County who were named to the UK Dean’s List for the fall 2008 semester.

To make a Dean’s List in one of the UK colleges, a student must earn a grade point average of 3.6 or higher and must have earned 12 credits or more in that semester, excluding credits earned in pass-fail classes. Some UK colleges require a 3.5 GPA to make the Dean’s List.

A total of 4,395 students achieved Dean’s List recognition.

“UK is happy to tout the academic success of its students, such as those who have been named to the fall 2008 Dean’s List,” said UK President Lee T. Todd, Jr. “The success of our students reflects well on them, their parents, the high schools from which they graduated and our faculty at the university.”

The students from Grant County on the UK Dean’s List are: Michael David Afterkirk, a junior from Dry Ridge, studying accounting in the Gatton College of Business and Economics; Patricia Jo Brady, a senior from Dry Ridge, studying nursing in the College of Nursing; Torrance Lorraine Holzman, a senior from Williamstown, studying elementary education in the College of Education; Nathan Wayne Kitchens, a sophomore from Dry Ridge, studying political science in the College of Arts and Sciences; Courtney Alexis McPherson, a sophomore from Crittenden, studying elementary education in the College of Education; Lindsay Marie Poer, a junior from Dry Ridge, studying elementary education in the College of Education; Shawn Lewis Saylor, a junior from Crittenden, studying integrated strategic communication in the College of Communication and Information Studies; Megan Anne Schultz, a freshman from Dry Ridge, studying biology in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Whitney Tate Walter, a senior from Dry Ridge, studying special education in the College of Education.