Architecture Student Wins Commerce Bank Award for Diversity Efforts

Reprinted Courtesy of K-State Media Relations and Marketing

His work in the cause of diversity at Kansas State University has won an architecture student a Commerce Bank Presidential Award.

The 2007 recipient of the Commerce Presidential Award for Enhancing Multiculturalism is Clemente Jaquez-Herrera, a fifth-year architecture student, Garden City. The award, first given in 1997, recognizes outstanding individual contributions to diversity within the student sector. He will receive $500.

Jaquez-Herrera will be honored at a reception from 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, January 22, in the K-State Alumni Center.

A recommendation letter for Jaquez-Herrera praised him for balancing his pursuits “in architecture, his studies and his need to be involved in the community around him, something that is driven by his social consciousness.”