{"id":80965,"date":"2017-05-20T07:14:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80965"},"modified":"2017-05-19T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T03:17:37","slug":"worcester-polytechnic-institute-announces-spring-2017-deans-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80965","title":{"rendered":"Worcester Polytechnic Institute announces spring 2017 dean&#8217;s list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=69111\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69111\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-69111 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deans-list-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deans-list.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deans-list.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deans-list.jpg?resize=400%2C226&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deans-list.jpg?w=420&amp;ssl=1 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The following local residents were among 1,319 students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute named to the university&#8217;s Dean&#8217;s List for academic excellence for the spring 2017 semester.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Albanese of Canastota is a member of the class of 2020 majoring in civil engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The criteria for the WPI Dean&#8217;s List differs from most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average. Instead, WPI defines the dean&#8217;s list by the amount of work completed at the A level in courses and projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WPI&#8217;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&#8221; said dean of undergraduate studies Arthur C. Heinricher. &#8220;Some of this nation&#8217;s best and brightest students come to WPI to study engineering and science and business and the humanities. Those named to the dean&#8217;s list have excelled in all of their work, and we are exceptionally proud of these outstanding students.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following local residents were among 1,319 students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute named to the university&#8217;s Dean&#8217;s List for academic excellence for the spring 2017 semester. Owen Albanese of Canastota is a member of the class of 2020 majoring in civil engineering. The criteria for the WPI Dean&#8217;s List differs from most other universities as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-l3T","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deans-list.jpg?fit=420%2C237&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}