Matt E. Vazquez of Needham is one of 796 students at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg named to the university's Dean's List for the spring semester of the 2011-12 academic year.

Vazquez is a senior at the University of Mary Washington. The Dean's List recognizes outstanding academic achievement at the university by full-time students who attain at least a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.

The University of Mary Washington is a premier, selective public liberal arts and sciences university in Virginia. The university, with a total enrollment of nearly 5,000, features colleges of business, education and arts and sciences, and three campuses, including a residential campus in Fredericksburg, Va., a second one in nearby Stafford and a third in Dahlgren, Va., which serves as a center of development of educational and research partnerships between the Navy, higher education institutions and the region's employers.