From Overland Park, Kansas
Lives in Lawrence, Kansas
Contact: [email protected]
While at KU, Sida served as the Community Service Chair and Vice President of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, the program coordinator for Hawks for Health and Into the Streets Week through the Center for Community Outreach, the philanthropy chair for Mortar Board, and a peer teaching leader for PLUS organic chemistry. In addition, Sida is also a University Scholar, Honors Ambassador, Engineering Ambassador, and a member of Tau Beta Pi. Sida was a part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows at KUMed his freshman year where he published a manuscript as a co-leading author, and continued doing research the summer of his sophomore year at the Pharmaceutical Chemistry department in Lawrence. Sida plans to go to medical school in 2013.
During his free time, Sida enjoys listening to music, spending time with friends and loved ones, and playing sports – especially basketball. Sida loves to sing, and along with his fraternity’s acapella group, Sida has performed the alma mater and national anthem at Allen Fieldhouse before a Jayhawk’s basketball game. One of Sida’s favorite things to do is to catch up with a long-lost friend over lunch or coffee.
Sida is currently at the University of Kansas finishing up his Chemical Engineering degree. After his 5th year, Sida plans to attend medical school and continue his passion of serving the community in innovative medical approaches.