These students are likely just a handful of the many accomplished scholars from Braintree in high school or college. If you know of any other students worthy of praise, email joseph.markman@patch.com or comment below!

Marist College

Mackenzie Boscoe, of Braintree, MA, is a member of the Class of 2015 and is majoring in Mathematics - Adolescence Education.

Marist is an independent comprehensive liberal arts college with an enrollment of 4,500 full-time undergraduate students. Founded in 1929, the College offers 44 major fields of undergraduate study and 12 graduate degree programs. Marist is included in the Princeton Review's 2013 guide to the top colleges and universities in the U.S., The Best 377 Colleges.

Emerson College

The following local residents have been named to Emerson College's Dean's List for the Fall 2012 semester. The criterion to make the Dean's List is a grade point average of 3.7 or higher.

Braintree's Lindsey Heger, a Marketing Communications major.

Braintree's Lianna Foye, a Marketing Communications major.

UMass Lowell

Local residents were recently recognized for achieving academic distinction during the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Fall 2012 semester.

To qualify for the Dean's List, students must have completed at least 12 graded credits for the semester, have at least a 3.25 grade point average with no grade lower than C and may not have any incompletes.

Local students named to the Dean's List are:

Rory Feeney of Braintree, majoring in exercise physiology

Michael Keogh of Braintree, majoring in psychology

Martin Lee of Braintree, majoring in business administration

Theron Moustakes of Braintree, majoring in environmental science

Mario Stamatiou of Braintree, majoring in mechanical engineering

Hoi Tong of Braintree, majoring in mechanical engineering

Local residents were recently recognized for achieving academic distinction during the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Fall 2012 semester.

To qualify for the Dean's List, students must have completed at least 12 graded credits for the semester, have at least a 3.25 grade point average with no grade lower than C and may not have any incompletes.

Local students named to the Dean's List are:

Rory Feeney of Braintree, majoring in exercise physiology

Michael Keogh of Braintree, majoring in psychology

Martin Lee of Braintree, majoring in business administration

Theron Moustakes of Braintree, majoring in environmental science

Mario Stamatiou of Braintree, majoring in mechanical engineering

Hoi Tong of Braintree, majoring in mechanical engineering

Local residents were recently recognized for achieving academic distinction during the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Fall 2012 semester.

To qualify for the Dean's List, students must have completed at least 12 graded credits for the semester, have at least a 3.25 grade point average with no grade lower than C and may not have any incompletes.

Local students named to the Dean's List are:

Rory Feeney of Braintree, majoring in exercise physiology

Michael Keogh of Braintree, majoring in psychology

Martin Lee of Braintree, majoring in business administration

Theron Moustakes of Braintree, majoring in environmental science

Mario Stamatiou of Braintree, majoring in mechanical engineering

Hoi Tong of Braintree, majoring in mechanical engineering

–Info from readMedia Newswire and UMass