Jenny Lee is a senior majoring in Advertising & Economics. She heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through a friend. Her client is SMMS where she works as a communications specialist. Her responsibilities include communicating with current users and possible users through various communication platforms such as social media and e-newsletter using effective methods. Though Jenny is...
Student Spotlights
Nicholas Walker is a Senior majoring in Sociology! He heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through an email from LAS. Nicholas is a Project Manager for the Illinois Global Institute! Nicholas is currently working on understanding other interns' tasks. He hopes to become an Entrepreneur and some fun facts about Nicholas are that he likes movies and eating pizza! Nicholas' ATLAS internship has...
Mackenzie Ortega is a senior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering. She heard about the ATLAS Internship program through the Marching Illini. Her client is Randy McCarthy and she works as a VR Content Creator. Currently, she is working on designing levels on Beat Saber for the University's traditional music. Mackenzie hopes to use her experience from the Marching Illini in completing this...
Saumya Malhotra is a freshman majoring in Applied Mathematics. She heard about the ATLAS Internship Program from her friends. Saumya is a Social Media Strategist Intern and her client is NetMath. She's responsible for coming up with content to post three times a week that markets new courses, highlights professors and seminars and occasionally entertain viewers with memes or jokes. Now Saumya's...
Morgan Myles is a senior majoring in English. She decided to apply after hearing about the ATLAS Program through an email listing. She is currently a Social Media intern for the HPRC, where she creates and posts social media content. Morgan is currently working on a segment she created called "Professional Pitstop". Through her experience as an ATLAS intern, she has learned a lot about digital...
Eshana Vora is a junior majoring in Community Health & Psychology. She first learned about ATLAS Internships through an LAS newsletter! Her client is RootLo and she works as a Data Analysis Intern. Eshana’s responsibilities include using IBM Watson software to build a queryable collection using Natural Language Processing as well as tagging and indexing location-based data. Currently, she is...
Amritha Kumar is a Junior studying Psychology. She heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through Handshake for the LAS Career Fair. Amritha Kumar is a Communications Specialist Intern who mainly focuses on IFLEX promotion. Her client is Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL). Now Amritha is working on creating a prototype for the new IFLEX website with all new and...
Yemariam Eyob is a senior majoring in Community Health. She decided to apply after hearing about the ATLAS Program from social media. She is a Social Marketing Specialist for Feeding our Kids, which is a local non-profit organization with a mission of eliminating food insecurity and hunger in elementary school-aged children in over 36 partnering schools in Champaign county. Her roles include:...
Yash Patel is a senior studying Economics and he heard about this internship program in an email from the Economics Department. He interns for the Student Money Management Center as a Data Analyst intern, who is responsible for coding and analyzing social media and Bursar email data. This includes collecting data from the social media site, cleaning the data, then using Tableau to make...
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...