Source: James Hohenbary, 785-532-6904, e-mail jimlth@k-state.edu
Scholarship winners and statistics: http://tinyurl.com/j3s8t
News release prepared by: Cheryl May, 785-532-6415, e-mail may@k-state.edu
Thursday, October 11, 2007
FOUR K-STATE STUDENTS NOMINATED FOR RHODES AND MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS
MANHATTAN -- 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-Hererra and Jenna Kennedy. Also, Amy Twite is nominated for the Marshall and Janie Anthony is nominated for the Rhodes.
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. 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. After graduating from K-State, Kennedy is planning to earn a graduate degree in immunology and a medical degree. At K-State, Kennedy has been doing undergraduate research in the immunology lab of Stephen Chapes, professor of biology, since November 2005. She is studying the role of two genes in controlling infection and cell function. Kennedy is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research scholar, a Kansas State University Foundation Scholar and a Dane G. Hansen Foundation Scholar. She is past advisory board co-chair to K-State PROUD: Students Changing Lives campaign; past president of Chimes junior honorary; and recruitment information manager for Alpha Delta Pi sorority, where she also has served as finance vice president. She is the president of the University Committee on Religion, member of Rotaract and the St. Isidore's Catholic Student Center. As a member of Blue Key senior honorary, she serves as director of recruitment and mentoring coordinator for both Quest and Catalyst. She is vice president of Silver Key, the sophomore honorary; and was a Student Governing Association intern. Kennedy volunteers with Up 'til Dawn and the Flint Hills Community Clinic. In summer 2006 she also served as a medical volunteer at Narh-Bita hospital in Ghana. A 2004 graduate of Wheatland High School, Grainfield, she is the daughter of Keith and Patricia Kennedy, Hoxie.
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. She is participating in undergraduate research on "Characterizing New Perylene Diimides as Potential Cancer Therapy Treatment Molecules" under the supervision of Daniel Higgins, associate professor of chemistry. As a high school student, she did research for two years at KU Med Center for Dr. Norberto Gonzalez focusing on the effects of hypoxia on microcirculation and disruption of the blood-brain barrier. She has also interned for Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies. She is a 2006 Goldwater scholarship winner. She was outreach coordinator for Alpha Chi Sigma chemistry fraternity, and a member of Students for Environmental Action and Alpha Epsilon Mu Microbiology Club. She has also worked as a general lab teaching assistant for General Chemistry and Chemistry I, as a tutor for Chemistry I and Chemistry II, and as a grader for Organic Chemistry II. She has received numerous honors and scholarships including a Kansas State University Foundation Scholarship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Scholarship, June Sherrid Hull Basic Cancer Research Center Scholarship and King Memorial Scholarship. She also is president of Archery Club. A 2004 graduate of Olathe North High School, she is the daughter of Leslie Twite, Olathe, and Michael B. Twite, Kansas City, Mo.
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. This semester she is student teaching both mathematics and music at Manhattan High School, Anthony Middle School and St. George elementary. She was a member of the K-State Choir which sang in Carnegie Hall in 2003, played principal oboe and English horn in the K-State Orchestra and was piano accompanist for the K-State Chorale. Her leading operatic roles have included Desiree in Sondheim's "A Little Night Music," Dorabella in Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte," Octavian in the opera workshop scene of Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier," and performed with the orchestra as the 2004 Aria Competition Winner. As a choral office assistant, she helped organize the Summer Choral Institute for high school students, at which she served as counselor for three years. Anthony was named the 2005 Presser Scholar, an award given to the Most Outstanding Junior Music Major, and was named co-winner of the 2007 Music Department Honors Recital. She also is a member of the CMENC Music Education Society, serving as 2005 treasurer and helping organize a concert for “National Music in Our Schools” month that March. As a teacher for the Manhattan Arts Center this summer, she designed and taught a new music curriculum for K-6 elementary students and also restarted a Children’s Choir. Anthony is a member of St. Isidore's Catholic Student Center choir and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, serving as scholarship chair in 2005 and music chair in 2004. She is a Dick Mason Music Education Scholar, Kansas State University Foundation scholar, and Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation Scholar. She is an avid participant in K-State intramurals: during her tenure she was a champion in flag football, softball, volleyball, basketball, doubles racquetball and ping pong. Anthony is the daughter of Kent and Cindy Anthony, Sterling, and a 2002 graduate of Sterling High School.