KSU senior from Hoxie honored for leadership

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University has recognized 13 students as outstanding graduating seniors. They were honored at an April 16 reception by Pat Bosco, K-State associate vice president for institutional advancement and dean of student life.

Jenna Kennedy, senior in microbiology, Hoxie, is a member of the Blue Key senior honorary and has been an orientation leader and a counselor for Wildcat Warm-up.

In addition to being named a Truman Scholar, Kennedy has won the H.H. Haymaker Award, a Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research Undergraduate Award, the Division of Biology Most Promising Student Award and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Award. She has volunteered for the Flint Hills Community Clinic, the Volunteer in Ghana program and the St. Isidore Catholic Student Center.

Her advice to future leaders is, "Do your best to lift the people around you to new heights. Show gratitude to those who help you along the way." After graduating, Kennedy will complete a yearlong fellowship at the Office of Rural Health Policy near Washington, before entering medical school.