Architecture Student Selected to Interview for Rhodes Scholarship

Reprinted Courtesy of K-State Media Relations and Marketing

Clemente Jaquez-Herrera is one of two K-State students who have been invited to interview for the Rhodes Scholarship. Interviews will be November 17 in Kansas City, Mo., said James Hohenbary, K-State’s assistant dean for nationally competitive scholarships.

The Rhodes Scholarship provides full funding to support two years of study at Oxford University in England. The Rhodes has an estimated value at more than $75,000.

Clemente Jaquez-Hererra, 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. 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.