Students Nominated for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships
Reprinted Courtesy of K-State Media Relations and Marketing
Four Kansas State University students have been selected to represent the university in competition for Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. Both scholarship programs provide full funding to support two years of study in England. Rhodes scholars study at Oxford University.
Marshall scholars may study at any university in the United Kingdom.
According to James Hohenbary, assistant dean for scholarship development, the nominees for both Rhodes and Marshall scholarships are Clemente Jaquez-Herrera and Jenna Kennedy. Also, Amy Twite is nominated for the Marshall and Janie Anthony is nominated for the Rhodes.
Clemente Jaquez-Herrera, Garden City, is in the fifth year of the master of architecture program at K-State. He has been working this semester on K-State’s solar house for the 2007 Solar Decathlon, a competition in which K-State’s proposal was one of 20 chosen to compete in Washington, D.C.
Jaquez-Herrera received a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which he used to study in Orvieto, Italy, in the spring 2007 semester. He has also worked as a resident assistant for both Upward Bound and K-State’s housing department. He has taken leadership roles in the Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Sigma Lambda Beta, a historically Latino fraternity where he led the effort to create the Sigma Lambda Beta Latino Immigrant Scholarship. He has been a multicultural ambassador for K-State, organized and spoke at an immigration reform rally and mentored Kansas City-area high school students through the Kauffman Scholars program. He also has earned membership into Mortar Board and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He was a member of K-State’s Developing Scholars program, which promotes academic excellence and serves underrepresented students. He also is active with various groups and activities within the college, whether it’s volunteering for a design charrette and construction project in New Orleans, serving on the dean’s advisory board and a department head search committee, or serving as president of K-State’s National Organization of Minority Architecture Students, which was 2006 chapter of the year. Later this month, alongside NOMAS peers, he will be in Orlando, Fla., talking to communities about a possible design intervention to spur growth and diversity. This winter he will study abroad in Peru. A 2003 graduate of Lakin High School, he is the son of Clemente Jaquez and Silvia Jaquez.
Jenna Kennedy, Hoxie, senior in microbiology, natural resources and environmental science, and premedicine, won a Truman scholarship in 2007.
Amy Twite, Olathe, a senior in chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology, plans to earn a Ph.D. in biological chemistry and conduct research and teach at a major university developing new treatment agents for various diseases.
Janie Anthony, Sterling, is a senior in music education with a vocal emphasis and secondary education-mathematics. After graduation this December, she plans to pursue a masters degree in musicology and vocal performance.