Jennifer Omasta of Sandy Hook was named to the Dean’s List for the fall semester at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H. Jennifer, a senior, earned Dean’s List standing by maintaining a term grade point average of at least 3.3 on a scale of four.

Andrea Szabo of Newtown was named to the Dean’s Honor List for the fall semester at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H. Andrea, a junior, earned Dean’s Honor List standing by maintaining a term grade point average of at least 3.65 on a scale of four.

Composer and saxophonist Stephen Danyew, a 2002 NHS graduate, was one of five composers recently chosen nationally to participate in the Yale Summer Music Festival. He is currently writing a new work to be premiered at the festival, and while in residence he will study with Martin Bresnick, chairman of composition at Yale.

Stephen will begin studies for a master’s degree in music in fall 2008 at the renowned Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. He currently resides in Miami, Fla., where he is executive director and composer for Project Copernicus, a chamber music ensemble comprised of virtuosic young musicians that has been hailed as “the future of classical music.” (Palm Beach Post)

In March, the ensemble offered its “most venturesome effort to date” (The Miami Herald) when it offered a concert series marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. The program included Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat and the premiere of Mr Danyew’s Letters from Iraq in collaboration with the acting troupe Ground Up & Rising.