Veronica Zhu is a senior majoring in Communication. Veronica is a Communication Intern for the College of LAS! She is responsible for composing weekly and monthly newsletters. She is currently working on the weekly newsletter. Veronica hopes to pursue a PhD after graduating! Through her internship with ATLAS Veronica has learned skills in writing and e-mail marketing. A fun fact about Veronica is...
Tyra Maynard is a junior majoring in Anthropology. They learned about ATLAS through the LAS newsletter. They are a Social Media Specialist for the IGI Center. Tyra plans, posts, and helps manage IGI’s social media pages. Currently, Tyra is drafting a weekly posting schedule, specifically, looking at the content of each center's website and picking content to highlight. After graduation, they want...
Shamarah Johnson is a senior majoring in English! She heard about the ATLAS Internship Program from Kirstin Wilcox. Shamarah is a Website Content Strategist for the Center for African Studies (CAS) and Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)! As a Website Content Strategist, Shamarah is responsible for ensuring that both centers' sites are working to the best of their ability. She also...
Rosa is a senior majoring in Statistics. Her internship client is Earnest Earth and she heard about the ATLAS internship program through the LAS website. She's a Social Media & Marketing Intern and her duties are to schedule posts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, write blog posts, and learn the gist of how a startup works. Rosa hopes to work as a Data or Marketing Analyst in the future....
Kayln Nowlan is a senior majoring in English. She learned about ATLAS through the Humanities Professional Resource Center while looking for an internship in communications. She works for the Office of Provost as a Media Content Producer. Kayln helps produce a series of faculty development-themed podcasts called “Dear Alma” a series in which Kalyn and her partner interview senior faculty members...
Jasmine Yi is a senior majoring in Statistics. She heard about ATLAS through the website and decided to apply. Jasmine works for Alexander Bartik as a Data Analyst. Currently, she is working on creating a survey for her client. In the future, she plans to work as a data analyst. From her internship, she has learned Python, R, and how to be a quick learner. A fun fact about Jasmine is that she...
Garrett Credi is a freshman majoring in Mathematics. He first learned about ATLAS through the LAS Weekly and then attended one of its meetings. He works with Dr. Randy McCarthy as a Virtual Designer. Garrett and his team come up with, code, design, and create VR games. They create the story and the mechanics, figure out ways to implement our ideas into the game world through Unity, and then...
Nehal Sing is a junior studying Mathematics and Computer Science, and she heard about this internship program from a friend. Her client is Dr. Randy McCarthy. Nehal's a VR Content Creator and her responsibilities include importing U of I songs to Beat Saber using an Oculus Rift S headset and customizing them to ten different levels of increasing difficulty using mods and the Beat Saber Level...
Nancy Meena is a junior studying Astronomy and she heard about the ATLAS Internship Program from her advisor. Her clients are Michelle Rome and the IGI centers. Nancy is now a Website Content Strategist intern, who specifically works on the Center for African Studies webpage and the European Union Center webpage where she measures, collects and analyzes reports of web data to optimize web usage...
Ksenia Polyarskaya is a junior majoring in Instrumental Performance. She heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through the ATLAS website. Ksenia is a Web Curriculum Specialist Intern for the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center. . Her duties include assisting in designing courses and certifications for basic computer skill sets, determining with the client the goals of the basic computer...