Past Graduate Students

Dirk-Jan Simons, PhD 2001 Consultant at LBP|SIGHT Netherlands Renewables & Environment

Greg DiFrancesco, MS 2000 Northside College Prep High School, Chicago, Chemistry

Todd Brown, MS 2003, EPA

Anton Migurskiy, MS 2005 Entrepreneur

Todd Ventura, PhD 2006, Professor, Saint Mary's University , Halifax, Canada

Caroline Jaraula, PhD 2008, Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines | UPD · Marine Science Institute

Nnamdi Lionel Mojekwu, MS 2015, Argonne National Laboratory.

Graduate students who worked closely with OGL

Jennifer Lawson Knoepfle, PhD 2005

Hilary Dugan, PhD 2014, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology

Postdoctoral researcher

Chris Ebey (2013)

Visiting Scientist

Lance Nguyen, MS Forensic Science UIC 2012, Texas Department of Insurance, Forensic Arson Laboratory.

Undergraduate students

Below is an incomplete list of the undergraduate students who worked in OGL for independent research (IR), as an Honors College activity (HC) or as laboratory aid (LA).   

• Felice Norlock Cruz, Spring 1998, IR. Boelter & Yates.
• Thomas McDonough Spring 1999, IR, LA;
• Carrie Olsen, Spring 1999, IR;
• Ka Chun Moy, Fall 1999, IR, LA;  QC and R&D Chemist, Smith Brothers Co.
• Daryl Sabourin, Summer 2000, IR, LA;  Environmental Manager at American Sugar Refining, Inc. Virginia
• Lina Taneva, Summer 2001, IR;  PhD Biological Sciences (UIC)
• Chris Ebey, Fall 2001, IR; Professor in the Geology Department at Jefferson Community College, Watertown, NY.
• Maya Nash, Fall 2003, IR; Architect & Marketing Coordinator, Brininstool and Lynch Ltd.
• Petia Tontcheva, Spring 2004, HC; Ph.D. Chemical Engineering UIUC; Chemical Engineer.
• Sara Prieto, Spring 2005, HC
• Lori Jean Faber, 2005 Summer Research Opportunity Program. 
• Sara Bauer, Fall 2005, IR. 
• Apostolis Zambanis Summer 2005, IR; Spring 2006 HC.
• William Welles, Spring 2008-Fall 2010, LA. 
• Ari Zwick, Fall 2008, LA; Spring 2009, IR;  then Argonne National Laboratory, then MS ETH (Zurich Switzerland)
• Martha Cuadra, Spring 2010-Spring 2012, LA. 
• Jeff Schiefelbein, Fall 2013,   
• Lance Nguyen, Fall 2014, IR Chemistry, LA; Forensic Scientist, Texas State Fire Marshall's Forensic Arson Laboratory . 
• Ioana Stefanescu, since Fall 2014 to Spring 2015, LA; Fall 2015, IR; Spring 2016, LA.
• Scott Groat, Fall 2015, IR. 
• Richard Shell, Spring 2016-Fall 2016 LA, IR.
• Libby Zagorski, Spring 2016-Spring 2017, LA.
• Avram Golden-Trist, Fall 2016-Spring 2007 (IR, Honors College Cap Project).
• Dylan Kempf, Summer 2017, LA      
• Jesus Campos, Summer 2017, LA
• Kevin Engelbert, Summer 2017-Fall 2017, LA, Spring 2018, IR
• Jo Martino, Summer 2017, Fall 2017-, Spring 2018-LA; Fall 2018- Spring 2019 (Honnors College Cap Project).