North Reading Students Honored By WPI

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has named five North Reading student's to the fall semester Dean's List. The five were among 1,608 students named to the university's Dean's List for the semester.

The five students are Yllara Maia, a member of the class of 2021 majoring in architectural engineering; Jillian Comeau, a member of the class of 2020 majoring in biology and biotechnology; Jessica Kelly, a member of the class of 2021 majoring in biology and biotechnology; Andrew Ressler, a member of the class of 2021 majoring in computer science, and bioinformatics and computational biology; and Cole Godzinski, a member of the class of 2019 majoring in mechanical engineering.

The criteria for the WPI Dean's List differs from 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. WPI students go beyond the classroom to work on open-ended problems in and for communities around the world. The problems are important and the impact is real" said dean of undergraduate studies Arthur C. Heinricher. "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."

Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI is one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities.