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Education NewsKuniko C. Hunter of Chester has graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Two degrees were conferred on Hunter during Rensselaer’s 210th commencement on May 28. She received a dual major Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering with a biometrics concentration from the Rensselaer School of Engineering and of Science in Design, Society and Innovation Studies and a Master of Science in Quantitative Finance, Risk Analytics from the Lally School of Management. In the fall, she plans to move to Nashville, Tenn., to pursue a PhD in biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She hopes to develop new, more sensitive, cost effective point-of-care diagnostic technologies to help physicians diagnose conditions at earlier stages when they are almost always easier and more cost effective to treat.


The following students were named to the Castleton University President’s List for the spring semester of the 2015-16 academic year. To qualify for this highest academic honor, the student must maintain full-time status and a semester grade point average of 4.0.

Ryan Murphy of Chester;
Sarah Wells of Chester.


The following students were named to the Castleton University Dean’s List for the spring semester of the 2015-16 academic year. To qualify for this academic honor, the student must maintain full-time status and a semester grade point average of 3.5.

Adrian Baraw-Nelson of Chester;
McKala Benson of Chester;
Kathleen Haseltine of Chester;
Taylor LeFevre of Chester;
Jessica Ralston of Chester;
Grandon Smith of Londonderry.


Olivia Bartlett of Chester was recently recognized at the annual Castleton Nursing Pinning Ceremony. She is a Castleton nursing student. The tradition of the nursing pin and the ceremonial pinning originated in the 1860’s at the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas Hospital in London.

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