Education

Roane State Community College music students Rebecca Staton of Harriman and Emilee Richardson of Kingston earned honors at a regional solo vocal competition that included performers from four-year universities.

The National Association of Teachers of Singing hosted the recent competition at Murray State University in Kentucky.

Staton placed third in the Underclass Musical Theater category, while Richardson placed second in Senior Women.

Both Staton and Richardson are members of the college’s Celebration Singers.

Logan Herwehe of Kingston has been inducted into Kappa Mu Epsilon, a national mathematics honor society, at University of Evansville.

Herwehe, a mathematics major, is one of 27 new members inducted at the UE chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon’s recent annual initiation and banquet.

Kappa Mu Epsilon is a national mathematics honor society founded in 1931 to promote the interest of mathematics among undergraduate students.

Three Maryville College students from Roane County have earned placement on the dean’s list for fall semester.

They are Matthew Barger, Miranda Clower and J. Dalton Stewart.

All three are graduates of Roane County High School.

Qualifications for the dean’s list includes a grade-point average of at least 3.6 in all work undertaken with no grade below a C. Only full-time students are considered for dean’s list honors.

William C. Carothers of Kingston and Julie A. Colbert and Rebekah L. Loden, both of Rockwood, are among students earning dean’s list achievement at East Tennessee State University’s Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy for fall session.

Students who qualified for the dean’s list were enrolled in no fewer than 12 credit hours and achieved a semester grade-point average of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale, with no grade lower than a B-minus.

ETSU is in Johnson City.