Danny Wynne, a Los Altos resident, was named to the provost’s list for the fall 2004 semester at Chapman University. To achieve this academic recognition, students must earn a grade point average of 3.6 or higher in at least 12 credits of residence course work taken for a letter grade in a semester.

Three local Vanderbilt University students have been named to the fall 2004 dean’s list. In the school of engineering, two students were named with high honors: Ryan Paul Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Davis of Los Altos Hills, and David Benjamin Nelson, son of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Nelson of Los Altos. In the school of arts and sciences, Brenton Michael Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hughes of Los Altos Hills, was named to the dean’s list.

Daniel Moerner of Egan Junior High School is one of three students who will compete as independents in the Northern California Mathcounts State Competition March 12 at UC-Davis. Nathanial Pinsker of Palo Alto’s Jordan Middle School and Ashu Desai of Nueva School are the other independents.

The three won a place at the Northern California competition by their performance at the Peninsula Chapter competition of Mathcounts, held Feb. 5 at Blach Intermediate School. Eighteen schools from Los Altos to Foster City and 128 sixth- to eighth-grade students participated in this test of advanced mathematical abilities.

Mathcounts is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grass-roots involvement in every U.S. state and territory.