Notable students and grads

The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), recently selected Britain Ingram of Fayetteville for the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program-Addictions Counselors (MFP-AC). Ingram is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and is currently a master’s student in the clinical mental health counseling program at Argosy University Atlanta.

Zachary Lane of Fayetteville was recognized for his induction into the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society during Tusculum College’s annual honors convocation April 28.

Mercer University sophomore Kyle Bligen of Peachtree City is one of 16 students nationwide who have been selected to participate in this year’s Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows program, a competitive five-and-a-half-week summer leadership program for rising juniors “who desire to make a difference,” according to a statement. The fully paid and funded program takes place at George Washington’s famous estate in Mount Vernon, just outside of Washington, D.C. Bligen is a politics, philosophy and economics major who, upon his graduation from Mercer, aspires to continue his education in the joint degree program in law and business offered by Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.

Among the 175 students who made the Dean’s List at Brenau University for the spring semester are Emma Paige Jaczko of Peachtree City, Chayla Riche` Park of Peachtree City, Erin A. Starnes of Fayetteville, and Jessica Leanne West of Senoia.