Poolesville’s Christine Heather Wyne was named to the 2012 spring semester dean’s list at Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss.

April L. Htut, Alison C. Kebba, Jorda M. Roder, Michelle L. Steinberg, and Adrienne S. Wendling, all of Gaithersburg, were named to the dean’s list for the 2011 to 2012 spring semester at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.

Nicholas Smith of Germantown and Daniel Stark and Lei Jiang of Gaithersburg graduated from Rice University in Houston, May 12. Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture. Stark and Jiang each earned a Ph.D. in Physics.