Melissa Faletra of Scituate Named to Dean's List at the University of Vermont

2012 Jan 20

Melissa K. Faletra, of Scituate, MA has been named to the dean's list for the fall 2011 semester at the University of Vermont. Faletra is a senior Mechanical Engineering major in the College of Engineering & Mathematic Sciences.

To be named to the dean's lists, 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.

Chartered in 1791, UVM was the first college or university in the United States that did not give preference to a religious sect in its charter. UVM now has nearly 10,460 undergraduates in seven schools and colleges, 1,490 graduate students and 452 medical students. As a small, comprehensive university, it blends the academic heritage of a private university with service missions in the land-grant tradition.