Riverside Resident Named To School's Fall 2020 Dean's List

Information via Worcester Polytechnic Institute

GREENWICH, CT — Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Garrett Sheehan of Riverside, CT, a member of the class of 23 majoring in Interactive Media & Game Development Technology (BS), was named to the university's Dean's List for academic excellence for the fall 2020 semester.

According to a news release, a total of 2,078 undergraduate students achieved the criteria required for WPI's fall 2020 Dean's List.

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The criteria for the WPI Dean's List differs from that of most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average (GPA). Instead, WPI defines the Dean's List by the amount of work completed at the A level in courses and projects.

"WPI's academic programs are rigorous and require a level of independence beyond what is required in traditional courses," dean of undergraduate studies Arthur C. Heinricher said in a news release. "WPI students work on open-ended problems for communities around the world. The problems are important and the impact is real. Some of this nation's best and brightest students come to WPI to study engineering and science and business and the humanities. Those named to the Dean's List have excelled in all of their work, and we are exceptionally proud of these outstanding students."

WPI is a distinctive, top-tier technological university founded in 1865. For more information, visit www.wpi.edu.