Newton North HS graduate Alex Sherman is a member of the Virginia NCAA collegiate Distance Medley Relay team that set a record on Friday, February 21. Sherman split 46.27 in the 400m leg of the relay. The relay’s time of 9:14.19 was the fastest ever recorded in the event on a legal track, but it did not qualify as a world record due to the presence of an Irish runner on the team. (While this team has the fastest-ever time for this event, the achievement is not considered a world-record relay unless all runners of the team are from the same country.) Last year, Sherman completed in the 2024 Olympic trials and placed 21st overall there.
Paul Cheek has been appointed to the Board of Directors of The Carroll Center for the Blind. He is Executive Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and a Senior Lecturer in MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He wrote Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics, co-founded three ventures, and was named among the Forbes magazine “30 Under 30.” He said of his appointment, “I am deeply inspired by the Carroll Center’s dedication to empowering individuals with vision loss, and I look forward to helping scale their impact through innovative programs and outreach.”
Yaxian Zhou graduated on December 15, 2024 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy with a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Rachel Padula-Shufelt, an Eliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding Design, is the costume designer for A Man of No Importance, playing at Speakeasy Stage through March 22.
The following Newton students were named to the University of Massachusetts Amherst Dean’s List for the fall semester: Taylor Adams, Grace Alandydy, Matthew Alexander-Latta, Michal Appelbaum, Michelle Azad, Talia Barts, Henry Bees, Michal Berlove, Mica Berman, Leonardo Bertolami, Alicia Black, Nathaniel Bloom, Williams Blumenthal, James Bombara, Sydney Boucher, Laura Bouzinier, Samuel Brambilla, Graham Buckton, Olivia Busa, Dante Calderone, Grace Campbell Maillet, Jocelyn Canton, Isidora Carcamo, Massimo Carrieri, Hope Carter, Ashley Cerone, Ashe Chan, Grace Chan, Vincent Chang, Adam Christianson, Ezekiel Cochin, Andrew Concannon, Joaquin Cuevas-Torres, Ross Curran, James Dandrea, Melvin de Medeiros, Kriti Dhiman, Dylan Dincer, Josslyn Dorfman, Huarui Du, Alexander Elvin, Elizabeth Elvin, Kristina Engelbrecht, Sarah Erani, Caitlyn Fair, Nora Fine, Jena Foster, Isabel Frassica, Shain Friedman, Baiwen Fu, Amanda Furbacher, Steven Gao, Javier Garcia, Matthew Gillen, Maxim Goldman, Oliver Gower, Douglas Greenbaum, Isabella Greenbaum, Gabriel Grossman, Margaret Halliwell, Briana Hanna, Nicolas Hart, Aidan Higgins, Griffin Hoeschele, Sawyer Hoeschele, Dayna Hoffman, Samuel Huang, Shirley Huang, Madison Hume, Isabella Ishanyan, Eric Jamsri, Tia Joseph, Benjamin Kalis, Kavin Kannan, Niko Keller-Go, Amit Kopolovic, Maria Kuenerz de Aguiar, Joshua Kurland, Michelle Labun, Zeve Lakein, Alexandra Layer, Hwayoung Lee, Jessica Levinson, Jadeson Li, Katie Lin, SiRong Lin, Daniel Lis, Zhitong Liu, Christina Lok, Anna Loomis Moore, Maxwell Lowe, Wan Yin Luk, Colin Lund-Tack, Julia Ma, Alexander Maclean, Arya Manda, Kaia Martin, Sean Martin, Ella Meirav, Maia Mints, Bianca Nascimento, Elias Nassar, Matilda Neuffer, Samuel Newman, Emily Ng, Amelie Nguyen, Julian Nielsen, Benjamin O’Guin, Brendan O’Guin, Uzochukwu Okonkwo, Samuel Ozer-Gortikov, Sedam Park, Siya Patel, Hou Yi Peng, Anthony Qiu, Eli Rabson, Luke Rattanavijai, Eva Riesenburger, Mikael Rotberg, Maeve Ruane, David Samaan, Harry Samuels, Woojin Seo, Emily Shaw, Isaac Shaw, Eric Shen, Dor Shitrit, Aman Singh, Maxwell Slater, Taesung Smith, Darren Soebagjo, Jillian Solari, Ido Spigelman, Noya Stessel, Robin Stevens, Daniel Stolow, Evan Stotsky, Kyrene Sugianto, Benjamin Tang, Andrea Tchesnovsky, Preslava Tchesnovsky, Robert Thurston, Grey Tiemann, William Truncer, Paxton Volpe, Zach Vosker, Zachary Wald, Gabriel Weiner, Aryeh Whittum, Leo Windels, Adam Wolf, Benjamin Wong, Zev Woodrow, Allison Wu, Amanda Yee, Angela Yee, Brandon Yee, Christopher Yee, Derek Yee, Dylan Yee, Daniel Youman, Jesse Youngblood, Sonny Zhang, Shihui Zou, and Irene Zuniga.
