Lenore Sparks, a 2001 Montezuma-Cortez High School graduate, received a doctorate in molecular biology from the prestigious European Molecular Biological Laboratory in Heidelburg, Germany on Dec. 18, 2014.
Her parents, Bucky and Nancy Sparks, attended the graduation ceremony, where Lenore was the sole student speaker. Her talk was accompanied by skate videos and rock climbing videos, which Lenore used as metaphors for science and the journey to achieve a doctorate.