Academic honors for local students.
• Kiley Baran, of Granby, is among the new students enrolled at Castleton State College in Vermont.
• Yvonne J. Rondeau, daughter of Michelle and John Rondeau, of Chicopee, recently matriculated as a first-year student at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. She is a graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School. She is among a class of 470 students selected from a pool of 5,071 applicants to the college.
• Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic recently released its list of newly enrolled students for the fall semester. They include: Scott Bicknell, of South Hadley, who is majoring in accounting; and Kelly Reardon, of Holyoke, a communication major.
• The University of Hartford honored exceptional members of its community during the annual faculty-staff kickoff celebration on Aug. 27.
Katrina Hawley, of Holyoke, an adjunct professor in the university’s Hartt School Dance Department, received a Gordon Clark Ramsey Award for Creative Excellence
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