Architecture Student Wins Udall Honorable Mention

Reprinted Courtesy of K-State Media Relations and Marketing

Two Kansas State University students are among 80 nationwide to receive $5,000 Morris K. Udall Scholarships, a congressional scholarship honoring the former Arizona congressman for his legacy of public service. The scholars were selected from 434 candidates nominated by 221 colleges and universities.

Brad Lutz, senior in electrical engineering and computer engineering, Andover, and Ella Todd, junior in marketing, Manhattan, will each receive a $5,000 Udall Scholarship. Sally Maddock, senior in architecture and natural resources and environmental sciences, Lakewood, Colo., was one of 50 students recognized with an honorable mention and $350.

“K-State’s student scholars have had an outstanding year,” said Jon Wefald, K-State president. “This school year alone, our students have won a Marshall scholarship, a Truman Scholarship, three Goldwater scholarships and now two Udall scholarships. Since 1986, K-State students have won 119 of these nationally competitive scholarships, which is 30 more than any other public university in the nation.”

James Hohenbary, assistant dean for nationally competitive scholarships, said the Udall Foundation seeks future leaders across a wide spectrum of environmental fields, including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice and economics.

Maddock has been active as a student senator for the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, and a member of the Dean’s Student Advisory Council. She also is a member of Tau Sigma Delta architecture honor society, Students for Environmental Action and Emerging Green Builders. In addition, she is working on the solar house K-State is entering in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2007 Solar Decathlon. She was recognized with a Kansas State University Foundation Scholarship, a K-State academic scholarship, the June Millard Memorial Scholarship, Hollis Memorial Scholarship, Palmquist Architecture and Design Scholarship and a College of Architecture, Planning and Design Scholarship. Using her Joseph and Elizabeth Barton-Dobenin Scholarship, she is studying in Prague, Czech Republic this semester. She also received a Global Education Initiative Scholarship. A 2003 graduate of Shawnee Mission South High School, Maddock is the daughter of John and Cynthia Maddock, Overland Park, and Amy and Ralph Giberson, Lakewood, Colo.

K-State is tied for third with Penn State among state universities in Udall scholarship competition. Only the University of Montana with 28 and Arizona State University with 19 have had more Udall winners since the competition began in 1996.