Jennifer Loewen, of Lawrence, a student at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, has been named to the Dean’s list for the spring semester, earning Highest Honors for a GPA of 4.0.

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Kansas State University student Marian Mersmann, a senior in psychology from Eudora, took part in a research internship offered by the university’s McNair Scholars program. She researched “Amphetamine-induced c-fos Expression in High and Low Responder Rats: Differential Involvement of the NAcc and mPFC” with Mary Cain, associate professor of psychology. The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program is administrated by the U.S. Department of Education and authorized by Congress to prepare academically talented undergraduates for success in graduate studies.