The following local residents were among 1,678 students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute named to the university’s dean’s list for academic excellence for the fall 2019 semester:
Phillip Abell of Cazenovia is a member of the class of 2021 majoring in robotics engineering.
The criteria for the WPI dean’s list differs from most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average. Instead, WPI defines the dean’s list by the amount of work completed at the A level in courses and projects.