NEWS AND PRESS

Boettcher Scholar Year: 2012 Hometown: Limon College/Degree: University of Northern Colorado, B.A.: Elementary Education, 2016 Tell us about your current work and how long you’ve been doing it. What is your favorite aspect of your current occupation? I am a fifth grade teacher at one of the public elementary...
16 September, 2019 /
Name: Mari McCarville Boettcher Scholar Year: 2016 Hometown: Crawford College/Degree: University of Denver, Music (BA) and Psychology (BA) and minor in leadership studies, 2020; Curriculum and Instruction (MA), 2021 What are you currently interested in pursuing after graduating? I will be starting my masters in elementary education at DU in...
13 August, 2019 /
Name: Joyce Julia Walker Boettcher Scholar Year: 1959 Hometown: Windsor College/Degree: University of Northern Colorado, B.A., 1963; University of Colorado, M.P.A., 1965 Tell us about your current work and how long you’ve been doing it. What is your favorite aspect of your current occupation? At 78, I'm finished with a...
13 August, 2019 /
Boettcher Scholar Year: 2016 Hometown:  Centennial University & Degrees: Colorado State University, B.A. in vocal music with minors in physics and mathematics, anticipated 2020. What are you currently interested in pursuing after graduating? During my senior year in high school, I student directed the men's choir and fell in...
11 July, 2019 /
Name: Kaitlin Neumann Johnson Boettcher Scholar Year: 2009 Hometown: Wray College/Degree: DU – BA English and Spanish, MBA Tell us about your current work and how long you’ve been doing it. What is your favorite aspect of your current occupation?  As of May, I have two occupations. Since 2015,...
11 July, 2019 /
Senior advisor in vaccinology at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. President of the International Society for Vaccines. Foreign adjunct professor, Karolinska Institutet. Executive vice-chair, International Vaccine Institute. Advisor to the World Health Organization. Margaret Liu has held these titles at various points in her world-renowned...
28 June, 2019 /
Andrea Poliakon Boettcher Scholar Year: 2015 Hometown: Byers University & Degrees: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, BS Biomedical Science What are you currently interested in pursuing after graduating? This summer I’m heading back to Byers to work as nursing aide. Ultimately, I want to become a neonatal nurse...
04 June, 2019 /
Carlos Solorzano         Boettcher Scholar Year: 2004 Hometown: Denver, CO College/Degree: DU, BS Computer Engineering, MBA, MA Higher Education Tell us about your current work and how long you’ve been doing it. What is your favorite aspect of your current occupation? I’m the champion of our customers at StarRez....
04 June, 2019 /
DENVER, May 29, 2019 — Seven biomedical researchers at Colorado institutions have been selected as Boettcher Investigators, marking the 10th class to receive research funding through the Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards program. The awards support promising, early career scientific researchers, allowi­ng them to establish...
29 May, 2019 /