Seth C. Hull of Newtown, a freshman at Trinity College in Hartford, has received Faculty Honors for the 2007 fall semester. To earn this honor, a student must have achieved a grade point average of at least a 3.667 with no individual letter grade below B minus.

Sacred Heart University in Fairfield has announced that Robert Licata of Sandy Hook has earned Dean’s List honors for the fall semester.

Susan Pennini, the interim academic dean at Curry College, in Milton, Mass., has announced that Alexander Rote, a Sandy Hook, attained membership to the College Dean’s List for the Fall 2007 term.

Shannon Shepard, daughter of Alan and Linda Shepard of Newtown, has joined AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps is a selective program for young Americans who want to make a difference in this country. The program offers a chance to apply skills and ideals toward helping others and meeting critical needs in their community. The program serves diverse communities and continues to help with recovery efforts from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The training program is both grueling and challenging.

Shannon is a recent graduate of the University of Connecticut. She is one of just 11 young women in her corps class to make the fire brigade, which involves basic firefighting skills, fire behavior, incident command system training, and passing the pack tests, which requires participants to walk three miles with a 45-pound pack on their back in less than 45 minutes.

Shannon will be based in Denver, Colo.

Elizabeth M. Belmont, Stephen D. Chuddy, Karla Marie Spencer, and Christina T. Wolf, all of Newtown, and Carola Wipprecht Aldrich, Ian Armitage, and Jessica Louise Shepard, all of Sandy Hook, have been named to Dean’s List for the fall 2007 semester at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.

Roger Williams University, in Bristol, R.I., has released its Dean’s List for the fall 2007 semester. Included among those named for the semester were freshman communications major Samantha Ciaccia, sophomore English literature and elementary education major Alyssa Schankman, and sophomore Michelle Steuer, an anthropology/sociology and elementary education major, all from Newtown. Also named to the Roger Williams Dean’s List was freshman Tricia Reed, an undeclared liberal arts major from Sandy Hook.