LBJ Outstanding Senior Award

The LBJ Outstanding Senior Student Award is given annually by the Alumni Association to a student as recognition for outstanding leadership, character, campus and community involvement, and academic success. Recipients must be candidates for graduation in May of the year that the award is conferred or have graduated the previous August or December. The recipient is recognized at the April Alumni Association Board of Directors meeting and at the Distinguished Alumni Gala. The recipient receives a $1,500 stipend from the Alumni Association and a matching $1,500 from Stelos Alliance for a total of $3,000!

Cristina Cervantes holding her award
Cristina Cervantes' certificate and medal
Cristina Cervantes with her award and the committee chair
Cristina Cervante

Cristina Cervantes

2024 LBJ Outstanding Senior Student

Cristina is majoring in manufacturing engineering with a mechanical systems concentration with minors in applied mathematics and business administration. 

Cristina helps welcome and orient new students in the Houston-Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance Scholars Program Scholars Program.  She is the project manager for her Senior Design Team which presented their design of an SAE Shifter Assembly at Senior Design Day. Cristina was co-captain of the Manufacturing Engineering Clamp Project. She is an active member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) student organizations.

Cristina worked as an engineering intern with NXP Semiconductors in Austin, TX during the summer 2023 term.  From May 2022-May 2023, she worked as a CAD Drafter with the Mears Company, Austin, TX. She was a MathCats tutor from October 2021- May 2022.  She provides STEM tutoring in the Collaborative Learning Center each long semester since Fall 2021.

 

Eligibility

  1. Nominee must be classified as a senior at Texas State University and be a candidate for graduation at Texas State University in May of the year that the award is conferred or have graduated the previous August or December.
  2. Nominee must have completed at least sixty (60) credit hours at Texas State University.
  3. Nominee must have demonstrated outstanding leadership, character, campus and community involvement, and academic success at Texas State University.
  4. Nominee must be a person of such integrity, stature and demonstrated ability that the faculty, staff, students and alumni of the university will take pride in, and be inspired by, their recognition.
  5. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
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Criteria and Guidelines

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  • Nominated students will receive notification and instructions by the Office of Alumni Engagement after their nominations are received.  In order to complete their nomination packet, students will be asked to submit the following to the Office of Alumni Engagement by Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. (CST).

    • Student ID Number
    • Graduation date
    • Resume
    • Brief statement summarizing how they meet the criteria for the award.

    Finalists will be asked to interview with the selection committee in late March/early April.

  • Please complete the nomination form.

  • We recommend drafting your answers in a word document before submitting the form.