Grace Dunford, a graduate of Homestead High School, has received a Deerpath Scholarship for Academics at Lake Forest College, north of Chicago, where she is a freshman. The Deerpath Scholarship program recognizes students who have a grade-point average of at least 3.5 and recommendations from teachers.

Former Los Altos resident Roy Dar spent seven months studying stochastic processes in bacterial cells at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Science Undergraduate Research Program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He plans to enroll in the University of Tennessee’s graduate program in biophysics.