Local students receive honors

Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) students received more than 400 scholarships totaling nearly $300,000 during the 2020-21 academic year. Often donors create scholarship funds to memorialize a loved one, or support a cause, but it all comes down to making a difference in the lives of the recipients. Recipients and donors are annually recognized at a scholarship reception each spring, which was cancelled this year due to the pandemic.

Local students receiving scholarships included: -- Greenwood: Shawn Collinson, CVTC Alumni Association Scholarship.

-- Loyal: Mathew Nikolai, Northwest Wisconsin Building Inspectors’ Association Endowment Scholarship and Residential Construction Club Scholarship - Eau Claire.

Neillsville: Dylan Humboldt, Nordson EDI Corporation Scholarship; Kyler Rakovec, Auto Value - Eau Claire Auto Parts Scholarship and Wisconsin Motor Carriers’ Association Dave Keays Memorial Scholarship.

UW-River Falls The University of Wisconsin-River Falls spring semester Dean’s List honoring 1,788 students has been released by Registrar Kelly Browning.

To be named to the Dean’s List, a fulltime undergraduate must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 on a scale of 4.0, or midway between an “A” and “B” average. Area students are listed below by hometown, name, and major.

-- Granton: Jillian Tyler, Agricultural Education -- Neillsville: Sarah Fields, Biology; Dakota Watton, Agricultural Business -- Spencer: Jenna Schober, Psychology -- Willard: Zena Thomas, Horticulture UW-Superior

The following students have been named to the University of Wisconsin-Superior Dean’s List for academic achievement during the Spring 2021 semester.

To be named to the Dean’s List, students must have completed 12 degreeseeking semester credits and achieved at least a 3.50 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).

-- Granton: Kimberly Rakovec -- Greenwood: Kayln Szymanski