Renee Rushefski, a student at Newtown High School, has been accepted to the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, N.Y., the institute announced last week.

Jessica Gaddis graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Sandy Hook students earned spots on Lauralton Hall’s third quarter honor roll. Earning high honors were freshmen Christina Gould, Alexandra Hamar, Kelly Ann McCarthy; sophomore Emily Marussich. Earning honors were freshman Amanda Watson; junior Caitlin Kalbacher; senior Hannah Glasrud. Lauralton Hall, in Milford, is a Catholic independent college preparatory high school for girls.

Local students were named to the University of Delaware’s Dean’s List for the fall 2008 semester. Those students were Matthew Fares Boland and Katherine Diana Caulfield, both freshman university studies major in the College of University Studies, Julie Cynthia Landin, a sophomore finance major and international business studies major in the College of Business and Economics, and Lindsay Emma Weber, a junior criminal justice major and psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Sarah Hemingway was recently awarded the School of Professional Studies Dean’s Award, the Miss Rumphius Award, and the Stephen K. Lovett Award for Elementary Education at Western Connecticut State University.

Brenden T. Deveney and Conor J. Deveney were named on the honor roll for the winter term at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. To be named on the honor roll at the academy students must maintain at least a five point grade average on a six point scale.

Ann Hull has been elected to serve as representative for the Class of 2012 in the Hamilton College Student Assembly. The Student Assembly at Hamilton College, in Clinton, N.Y., is a duly-elected representative organization that works on behalf of the undergraduate student population.