The Emerson College chapter of the National Broadcasting Society won three awards at the annual National Convention. Newtown resident and Emerson student Laura Bittman won for the NBS Chapter Website. The 49th Annual National Student Electronic Media Competition winners were announced at that NBS/AERho National Convention in New York City on March 24. The national competition of more than 25 categories is open to all NBS members throughout the country.

Marina Virgalla, a 2008 Newtown High School graduate, and her fellow team members from Southern Connecticut State University recently competed in the 34th Annual International Collegiate Conference held in New Orleans, La. The theme of the 34th Annual International Collegiate Conference was Marketing: Always Evolving, and the team was named as a group finalist and presented at the recent Collegiate AMA Conference in New Orleans. The team came in tied for third. Marina is a marketing major at SCSU, and is set to graduate in the spring.

The Gunnery, a coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school in Washington, recently announced its 2012 winter honor roll. Ariana E. Dominicus of Newtown was named on the list.

Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute recently announced that Adam Morehouse of Newtown has been named a Charles O. Thompson Scholar for the 2011-2012 academic year.

In Blacksburg, Va., Newtown residents Alexandra S. Caracciolo, Kyle M. Packer, and Andrew R. Shugarts were named on the dean’s list for the fall 2011 semester at Virginia Tech. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must attempt at least 12 credit hours graded on the A to F format and earn a 3.4 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) during the semester.

Allen Hubbard, son of Allen and Nancie Hubbard of Newtown, will be inducted into the Saint Michael’s College chapter of the national honor society Phi Beta Kappa in ceremonies to be held April 20 on the campus of the liberal arts residential Catholic college in the Burlington, Vt. Hubbard graduated from Newtown High School. A senior biology major, Hubbard is one of 40 Saint Michael’s students to be inducted with college officials, faculty, new members, and parents of inductees present. The ritual-filled occasion will be highlighted by an address titled “Becoming Invisible: Economic History and the Past, Present and Future of Medieval Studies” to be given by Dr George Dameron, published professor of history at Saint Michael’s.

Ethan Carotti of Sandy Hook is set to participate in SEA Semester, a study abroad program through the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Mass., while away from studies at the University of Connecticut. Ethan completed the Sea Semester’s six-week shore component, earning academic credit for curriculum in oceanography, nautical science, and maritime studies. Ethan is set to sail on the sailing school vessel Robert C. Seamans, with possible port stops in Honolulu, Hawaii, Christmas Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Kona, Hawaii,, before returning to Honolulu. In addition to collecting data for a research project, during the trip Ethan will help provide weather observations to a national database, learn to chart the course of the vessel using celestial navigation, and serve as the junior watch officer, taking full command of the vessel during a watch.