Melissa Manzella of Yorktown Heights Named to UVM Dean s List Written by University of Vermont
Melissa Manzella, Class of 2021, has been named to the dean s list for the fall 2020 semester at the University of Vermont. Manzella from Yorktown Heights, is in the Grossman School of Business.
To be named to the dean s list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.
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Spotlight On: Lana Al-Namee 22 Making new opportunities for her peers and career are all in a day s work, one that begins at 4 a.m., for the SGA President Photo by Andy Duback
If you see Lana Al-Namee ’22 singing through her mask or skipping down Main Street when she thinks no one’s looking, please do not disturb. This brief journey between the Student Government Association (SGA) office and her off-campus job is her time to compartmentalize an ever-expanding to-do list while a carefully curated upbeat playlist does its job.
This is a tough year to serve as SGA President, to be sure, but Al-Namee reasons that she’ll likely always have her work cut out for her. Al-Namee is an Iraqi woman in UVM’s Grossman School of Business studying finance, marketing and economics. “I love taking on a new challenge,” she says.