PRESIDENT’S LIST
Annette Reed-Lilly and Patricia Mara Zarate, both of Oceanside, made the fall president’s list at Ohio University. The list honors undergraduate students who have a 4.0 GPA with a minimum of 12 credit hours.
DEAN’S LIST
The following students made the fall dean’s list at their respective schools: Ameer Abedy of Carlsbad Berea College in Kentucky; Keaton Smith of Escondido and Zane Goldman of Vista at Pacific University in Oregon; Gabriella Bacino of Rancho Santa Fe and Van Coughlin of Solana Beach at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts; and Isabelle Pizzurro of Carlsbad, Grace Szczuka of Solana Beach, and Claire Chen and Forest Rees of San Marcos at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
PROVOST’S LIST
Nichole Carrasco of San Diego made the fall provost’s list at Ohio University. The list honors high-achieving, part-time undergraduate students who possess a 3.5 or greater GPA between 6 and 12 credit hours.
PACIFIC RIDGE
Two varsity teams at Pacific Ridge School, a private school in Carlsbad, won their CIF San Diego finals. The boys varsity soccer team won the Division II title against Mt. Helix, and the boys varsity basketball team won the Division V title against Chula Vista.
CORNELL OFFER
Army and Navy Academy Cadet Landon Schrom, a junior, has been offered an opportunity to compete at Cornell University. He plays both wide receiver and linebacker for the Academy’s football team and has a higher than 3.9 GPA. He was named first-team All-Coastal League as a wide receiver and also won the 100-meter title in the 2024 Coastal Track & Field Championships.
BALLET COMPETITION
Encinitas Ballet students Ariel Asatryan, Xara Gosman Brown and Alicia Jiang will compete in the 2025 Youth America Grand Prix international ballet competition finals in Tampa later this year.
ARTIST AWARD
Fan Li, a Carlsbad resident and artist, won Best of Miniatures Award in the March 2025 San Diego Watercolor Society Member’s exhibition, “Nature’s Alchemy,” in Liberty Station. San Diego artist Kathleen Scoggin chose Li’s “Morro Bay” painting out of over 270 entries.
NEW BUILDING
Cal State San Marcos has partnered with design firm HGA and builder C.W. Driver Companies to design and build a three-story, 70,000-square foot Integrated Science and Engineering Building, marking the project as the first large-scale construction on campus in over 10 years.
SENIOR LIVING
Westmont of Escondido has been recognized as a Best of Senior Living 2025 award winner by A Place for Mom, an online platform that guides families on making senior care decisions for their loved ones. The awards represent the highest-rated senior living communities and in-home care providers across the United State and Canada.
DEA HURSTON
New Village Arts is seeking applications for its Dea Hurston Professional Fellowship, which selects two emerging theatre professionals and a professional visual artist who demonstrate outstanding talent and commitment to community building within the arts. The fellowship was created to address the lack of paid opportunities for women, BIPOC, and other underrepresented theatre artists and students in San Diego. Deadline for submissions is April 2. Visit newvillagearts.org to apply.
HEALTHY CAMPUS
Healthy Campus, an organization dedicated to providing high-quality, accessible health care to students, families and school staff, presented its work with Vista Unified School District at the 2025 California School Nurses Organization Conference that highlighted the importance of youth engagement in school mental health initiatives.
