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Alumni News: Andrea Cole on Dean's List at Berry College

Cole is among several Tucker students who were recently honored at their universities.

Andrea Cole, a 2010 graduate of , has been named to the Dean’s List at Berry College in Rome, Ga., for the fall 2011 semester. Cole is an environmental science major and is the daughter of Brad and Teresa Cole.

In other alumni news, the following local students were named to the Honor List of Oxford College, the two-year liberal arts division of Emory University located in Oxford, Ga., for the 2011 fall semester:

Dominique Bulgin of Stone Mountain, daughter of Denise Pugh of Tucker and Devon Bulgin of Cleveland, Ohio; Ian Nickle, son of Barbara Roberts of Tucker and John Nickle of Atlanta; and Mary Kelly, daughter of Dr. William Kelly and Dr. Patricia Kelly.

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At Emory in Atlanta, the following students from Tucker received degrees:

Julie Lutz, daughter of James Harold Lutz and Sue Shih-Chieh Lutz, received Bachelor of Arts. Naureen Mitha daughter of Aziz Mitha and Aminisa Mitha, graduated with received a Bachelor of Science degree, as did Melon Nega, daughter of Tekola Nega Argaw of Addis Ababa and Alemtsehay Gizachew Menegesha of Addis Ababa.

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Jay Metha, son of Dr. Harshad Mehta and Dr. Meena Mehta, received an Associate in Arts, and Zhiheng Xu was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Graduate School of Emory University.

These students were named to Emory's Dean's List for last semester:

Shaopeng Jia, son of Dr. Hongwei Jia and Dr. Li Jiang; Mariangela Joran, daughter of Maria Coward of Prahoua; Zhilin Zheng, daughter of Michngang Zheng and Cuimei Liu; Aneesha Thobani, daughter of Siraj Thobani and Ruksana Thobani; Rosa Ilyayeva, daughter of Vladimir Ilyayev and Juliette Ilyayev, and Ke Bai, son of Xianhe Bai and Yulin Lin.

At Mercer University in Atlanta, the following Tucker students were named to the Dean's List of their college or school for the fall 2011 semester:

Afsheen P. Jamani, a junior, at the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing; Sarah E. Harber, a senior at the College of Liberal Arts, and Victor F. Dias, a junior, at the School of Engineering.

Finally Tucker's Eleanor Burden was named to Oglethorpe University's Dean's List for the Fall 2011 semester. Burden, an English major, was one of approximately 260 students to earn this distinction, which requires students to achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average while maintaining a full-time class schedule during the semester.


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