YOUNG PALISADIANS

MATTHEW CORREIA, a graduate of Palisades High School, was named to the dean’s list for the 2009-2010 school year at the University of Pennsylvania, where he finished his sophomore year majoring in physics with a concentration in chemistry. JUSTIN SILVERMAN, who is majoring in biophysics, was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at The Johns Hopkins University. Pacific Palisades resident ELYSE HOLLANDER was accepted into the UCLA School of theater, film and television with a major in film and television.’More than 600 transfer students from the United States and abroad applied for the 15 spots at the school. Hollander, 20, won the Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Award for Short Film with ‘Love Fool,’ a romantic comedy, as a sophomore at UC Santa Barbara, where she was a student in film and media studies. Hollander attended’Marquez, Paul Revere and Concord High School, and is the daughter of Doris and James Hollander, who work for KNBC Television. Her sister Danielle, a musician singer/songwriter, is a junior at Palisades High. Palisades Charter High School students named as semifinalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program include: TIMOTHY BRIGHTBILL, EMILY CLARKE, SAMUEL KELLY, CALLISTA MICHAEL-RILL, JAMES WANG and Palisadian-Post intern JAYANT SUBRAHMANYAM. (If you live in Pacific Palisades and your student has also been named to the list, please e-mail features@palipost.com, so we include your child in an upcoming Young Palisadian column.) RACHEL SMITH, a UC Berkeley Ph.D. student, has been named to the National Fire Protection Agency committee. The NFPA is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce the threat of fire by creating universal standards and codes. The committee will work on creating documents that set minimum job performance requirements to be adopted by fire agencies across the world. (It will be published in 2012.) Smith is also the founder and president of Firescaping.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing risk abatement information to homeowners and residents. She is the granddaughter of Miriam Smith, who has lived in Pacific Palisades more than 60 years. If your student has made the dean’s list or received an honor and you wish him/her to be included in this column, please send information to features@palipost.com.