Student honored by WPI for academics and leadership
Courtesy of WPI News Service
Jeffrey D. Spaleta, who recently completed his junior year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has received WPI's Two Towers Prize. The prize is awarded to a student who, through general academic competence, campus leadership, regular course work, and special work in research and projects, best exemplifies a combined proficiency in the theoretical and practical union that is at the heart of the WPI educational tradition. This prize was established by Mildred M. Tymeson Petrie, author of Two Towers, WPI's centennial history.
Spaleta, son of Sharon B. Spaleta and Jack P. Spaleta, both of Charlotte, N.C. is completing a dual major in mathematical sciences and physics. He is a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, the mathematics honor society, Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, the WPI Glee Club, the Social Committee, and BACCHUS, a student group dedicated to educating the WPI campus on social issues and providing alternatives to potentially unsafe activities. Spaleta will spend the spring of 1997 in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Program, a semester-long program in discrete mathematics.
