Past Graduate Students
Graduate students who worked closely with OGL
Postdoctoral researcher
Visiting Scientist
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).   

  • Mary Lady, Spring 1996, LA
  • Mia Caballeros, Spring 1996, LA 
  • Renee Giron, Spring 1996, LA
  • Amy Podzimek, Spring 1997, Fall 97.
  • Felice Norlock Cruz, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, IR. Boelter & Yates.
  • Thomas McDonough Spring 1999, IR, LA;
  • Carrie Olsen, Spring 1999, IR;
  • Ka Chun Moy, Fall 1999, IR, Spring 2000, Summer 2000LA;  QC and R&D Chemist, Smith Brothers Co.
  • Daryl Sabourin, Spring 2000 LA, Summer 2000, IR, Fall 2000 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 2017 (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 (Honors College Cap Project).
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