Members

Favorite quote: *"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -John Keats*

Prof. Alison E. Ondrus

Postdoc: Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford School of Medicine (JK Chen)
Chemistry, Stanford University (J Du Bois)
PhD: Chemistry, MIT (M Movassaghi)
BSc: Chemistry, University of Alberta (FG West)
Hometown: Edmonton, Canada
email: aondrus@uic.edu

Values

Team

Dr. Yu-Shiuan Cheng
Postdoc
PhD: Case Western (RG Salomon)
Hometown: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
email: yscheng@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *“Let the rest do whatever, while you do whatever it takes.” -Grant Cardone*

Angela Nguyen
PSCI G3
BSc: UC Irvine
Hometown: Orange County, CA
email: anguye98@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *”The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” - Carl Sagan*

Sriranjani Srikanth
Chemistry G2
MSc: MAHE, India
Hometown: Chennai, India
email: ssrika4@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *"Because it's there" - George Mallory when asked why he decided to climb Mount Everest*

Rowan Eshenroder
Senior
Biochemistry Major
Hometown: Chicago, IL
email: reshe2@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *“We all have our own personal mountain range, And there are many people who are climbing the mountain right now. We must tell them not to be discouraged, to keep going.” - Roberto Canessa*

Vander Nguyen
Junior
Biochemistry Major
Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
email: hnguy53@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” -Eleanor Roosevelt*

Caleb Hayes
Chemistry G3
BSc: Wheaton College
Hometown: Rockford, IL
email: chayes26@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *“Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass.”- Buddha*

Nayanthara Ramesh Babu
Chemistry G2
Integrated MSc: NISER, India
Hometown: Kerala, India
email: nrames5@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan*

Brianna Baez
Senior
Biochemistry Major
Hometown: Libertyville, IL
email: bbaez3@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. The encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and power to endure.” - Maya Angelou*

Christina Tamayo
Senior
Neuroscience Major
Hometown: Chicago, IL
email: ctama3@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." - Ernest Hemmingway*

Brendan Chan
Research Technician
BS, Biological Sciences, UIC
Hometown: Chicago, IL
email: bchan32@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *"When you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." - Paulo Coelho*

Anna Nguyen
PSCI G3
BSc: CSB+SJU
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
email: mnguye96@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” - Socrates*

Matt McIntyre
Chemistry G2
BSc: Valparaiso University
Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
email: mmcint9@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka*

Ricky Chen
Senior
GPPA Medical Scholar
Hometown: Chicago, IL
email: rchen64@uic.edu

Favorite quote: *"I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough." - Richard Feynman*

Sameer Vangara
Junior
Chemistry Major
Hometown: Bartlett, IL
email: svang22@uic.edu