Achievements: Students earn academic honors

Students from the area have earned academic honors nationwide for the fall 2014 semester. Grade-point averages are calculated on a 4.0 scale, unless otherwise noted.

• Hillsdale College, in Hillsdale, Michigan, named Jacob Thackston to the dean’s list for earning a grade-point average of 3.4 or more for the semester. He is the son of Spokane residents Jason and Julie Thackston.

• Kira Renfro, of Spangle, earned a 4.0 grade-point average to be named to the provost’s list at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Jackson Hathaway, of Colbert, earned a grade-point average of at least 3.5 at Hofstra to be named to the dean’s list.

• Benedictine College, in Atchison, Kansas, named David Roth, of Newman Lake, to the dean’s list for earning a grade-point average of 3.5 or more for the semester.

• Newman Lake resident Joseph Roth was named to the dean’s list at the University of Dallas, in Irving, Texas, for earning a semester grade-point average of 3.5 or more.

• Justin Bonanno has been named to the dean’s list at Bethel University, in St. Paul, Minnesota, after earning a grade-point average of 3.6 or more for the semester. Bonanno is the son of Colbert residents Eric and Robin Bonanno.

• Medical Lake resident Jennifer Lucas has been named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, after earning at least a 3.25 grade-point average for the semester.

• Kara Hock, of Mead, earned a grade-point average between 3.65 and 3.74 to be named to the dean’s list at University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Spokane resident Byron Coffey earned a grade-point average of 3.2 or more for the semester to be named to the honor list at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri.

• Joseph LeDuc, of Spokane, has been named to the dean’s list at Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after he earned a 3.4 grade-point average or more during the semester.

• Creighton University, in Omaha, Nebraska, recently named local residents to the dean’s list for maintaining a grade-point average of at least 3.5 for the semester. Students are listed by their hometown.

Liberty Lake: Nicholaus Johnson.

Spokane: Caitlyn Ewers, Spencer Nelson.

Spokane Valley: Elizabeth Kosanke.