Katelyn Blankenship is a Sophomore studying Anthropology. Katelyn is a part of the ATLAS Communications Team as a Newsletter Content Specialist. She heard about the ATLAS Internship Program when she received a referral email from her advisor. Her main focus is writing the Intern Weekly and the ATLAS Bulletin. This content reaches over 70 interns and more than 600 faculty members! ...
Student Spotlights
Julisa Payan is a Junior studying Mathematics. Julisa is a Data Analyst for The Student Money Management Center and some of her responsibilities include analyzing the effectiveness of the communications strategies on both social media and through email. She also codes the emails for SMMC and the university bursar as a whole. Right now she is working on analyzing the Instagram page data and...
Clare Sullivan is a Senior majoring in Communication. This is Clare's sixth semester in ATLAS, and this semester she is an intern at the Virtual Life & Career Design Lab. She is in charge of creating a virtual interactive platform for the Life & Career Design Lab. She is currently working on creating 'Buzzfeed' quizzes in order to figure out what students want/need, how to help student's...
Keesan Patel is a Sophomore studying Economics. He is currently working as a media content producer for a series of faculty development podcasts titled "Dear Alma" which is an initiative taken by the Office of the Provost. He is currently in the process of editing all of their audio using Adobe Audition as well as in the process of getting the podcast ready for release so he is ...
Nancy Meena is a Junior majoring in Astronomy. Nancy works as a VR Catalog Evaluator for Michelle Rome where she finds more VR apps for majors that do not have any yet and evaluates them. She is responsible for editing the website and making it more accessible to students and staff. She has also written an article and a paragraph for the VR newsletter. Some skills she has acquired through her...
Zhongyu Wu is a Senior double-majoring in Economics and Statistics. Zhongyu works as a Social Media Specialist for "Feeding Our Kids" where she runs the social media accounts and maintains good communication with the intended audience. She has developed her technical skills in Keela, WordPress, and Canva, as well as improved her communication skills. Zhongyu wants to pursue a career in marketing...
Jordan McClain is a Junior double-majoring in Integrative Biology and Spanish. Jordan is working as a Website Content Specialist/Communication Specialist for Stephanie Pregent. Through her position, she is creating and updating the neuroscience website with new content that features faculty and alumni. She is currently working to create an ad that presents faculty involvement in COVID research,...
Nicholas Skorin is a Senior double-majoring in Political Science and Communication. He is a Communication Specialist for the Student Money Management Center where he is currently producing content for the SMMC Facebook account as well as creating and editing the SMMC e-newsletter. Some skills he has acquired are: content production, time management, audience specific writing, and presentation...
Samantha Ruiz is a Junior double-majoring in Political Science and Communication. Samantha is working as a Communication Specialist for Tech Services where she is responsible for posting social media content on their accounts twice a week and posting an article that she writes herself to their website monthly. She is currently working on making sure that students are aware of online resources to...
Jasmine Yi is a senior majoring in statistics and econometrics. She heard about the internship program from her friends and decided to apply. Jasmine interns as a Data Analyst for Alexander Bartik, an assistant professor in economics. Jasmine is responsible for cleaning data she receives, analyzing it, and condensing it into readable information. She is currently working on a shiny application (...