Academic Honors: UMass Dean's List, New Haven Grad

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!

UMass Boston

The following local residents were among the close to 3,000 students from the University of Massachusetts Boston who made the Spring 2012 Dean's List:

Samantha Riley, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Jiaxian Cen, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Lea Aprea, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Juliana Igbinosun, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Michelle Goggin, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Ryan Stephen, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Rachael DiBlasi, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Samantha Sarantakis, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Alex Lu, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Autumn Zerendow, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Wan Remylina Wan Zaid, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Rachel Jenner, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Haydy George, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Kudzai Deketeke, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Cody Sheehan, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Albana Paja, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Cheryl Cirignano, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Jacob Haley, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Andrew Prioli, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Xian Long, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Alexander Cerri, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Vy Quan, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Edward Grigoryan, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Kevin O'Brien, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Nancy McConnell, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Jialin Liu, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Louis Grassi, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Katelyn Hynes, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Maggie Kusch, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Justin Murphy, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Jessica Needham, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Anson Gao, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Mandy Pracht, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Elizabeth Horn, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Alison Last, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Liubomir Iordanov, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Andre Skapeta, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Kai Lang, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Matthew Norton, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Jerry Yuen, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Silvio Cardarelli, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Kelsey Souza, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Nora Andersen, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Courtney Panciotti, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Samantha Sorocco, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Joanne Alexandre, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Steven Birarelli, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Omar Laroussi, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Anwar Laroussi, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Michael Mullen, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Michael Steele, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Shaza Alzaim, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Russell Davis, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Rachel Brundige, a resident of Braintree, MA.

Emily Flannery, a resident of Braintree, MA.

UMass Boston has an undergraduate enrollment of more than 11,000 students and offers degrees in dozens of academic majors. UMass was one of 150 colleges and universities nationwide to be named a "Best Value College" by the Princeton Review.

University of New Haven

Craig Whitney of Braintree, MA, graduated from the University of New Haven on August 25, 2012 with a Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The University of New Haven is a private, top-tier comprehensive institution recognized as a national leader in experiential education. Founded in 1920 on the campus of Yale University in cooperation with Northeastern University, UNH moved to its current West Haven campus in 1960.

–Info from readMedia Newswire and UMass