More than two dozen Mount Airy area students were named to the Salisbury University dean’s list for the spring 2012 semester. Students must achieve a grade point average of at least a 3.5 during the semester to be placed on the list.

From Monrovia: Vincent Brown, Suzanne Earl, Kaitlyn Markham and Nicole Smith.

From Mount Airy: Kimberly Carmichael, Michelle Clark, Caroline Curran, Sydney Dobbin, Melissa Hess, Abigail Hubbard, Grace Kneebone, Loren Kolick, Torey Krugle, Alexander Riley-Anwar, Adam Rudy, Jessica Simpson, Ella Tressler, Brandyn Wilkerson and Molly Witte.

From New Market: Kaitlyn Cane, Kevin Chicca, Patrick Kelly, Hannah Parlaman and Shaun Powell.

From Ijamsville: Rebecca Ableman, Emily Baumgarten and Michael Maczis.

Carolyn Hayden, of Mount Airy, recently participated in Salisbury University’s 11th annual Student Research Conference.

Hayden, along with another student, presented “The Effects of Caffeine on the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) Test.”

Jonathan Vette, of Mount Airy, made the dean’s list for the spring 2012 semester at Virginia Technical College. Students must achieve a grade point average of at least 3.5 and carry 12 or more letter-graded credits.

Christine Fossaceca, an Urbana High School graduate, was one of 24 students statewide awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Northrop Grumman Corporation. She was the only recipient from Frederick County.

Northrop recently celebrated its 10th annual Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholars program during an awards reception at the BWI Hilton Hotel on June 8, when the company gave away a $240,000 in college scholarships to be used beginning this fall.

Fossaceca, who is ranked first in her class of 470 students and is a National Merit Scholar, will study computer engineering at Villanova University.