Students on the Move

Michigan Technological University, in Houghton, Michigan, has named Patrick Sargent, a former Owego Free Academy student, to the Dean’s List for the 2017 fall semester. Sargent, who is studying engineering, is from Apalachin, N.Y. and is the son of Janey and Daniel Sargent.

More than 1,800 students were named to the Dean’s List this past fall. To be included, students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.

Michigan Technological University (mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. 

Michigan Tech offers more than 130 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.

At Alfred State College, they welcomed a new class of freshmen this spring. Locally, the college welcomed Nick Cotto of Barton, N.Y., who is studying Business Administration. The college also welcomed Jacob Wilkert of Owego, N.Y., who is studying Mechanical Engineering Technology.

The college offers educational opportunities in 49 associate degree programs, 26 baccalaureate degree programs, and two certificate programs in the schools of Arts and Sciences, Architecture, Management and Engineering Technology, and Applied Technology. 

The college is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. 

Also in college news, more than 2,000 students received degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the winter commencement ceremony on Dec. 16, 2017. About 1,150 graduates took part.

Among those receiving degrees was Waverly’s Arielle Mensch, College of Letters and Science, Doctor of Philosophy, and Chemistry. 

During the ceremony, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told graduates that the number one predictor of their impact would not be genius or luck, but how hard they try and how hard they work.

“When you find that place where what you’re good at and what you’re passionate about come together, that is where your life’s work awaits you,” she said. “Choose opportunities that put you there.”

The keynote speakers were Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison alums and a top Hollywood writing and producing team. They drew laughs as they recounted their undergraduate friendship and their modest beginnings as film students.

For more on the graduation, visit news.wisc.edu/2017-winter-commencement-a-day-of-selfies-victory-laps-and-avoiding-hollow-bunnies/.

For more information about the University of Wisconsin-Madison, visit www.wisc.edu.