Junior Isabelle Plebanek is majoring in communications. Isabelle's internship focuses around implementing the Cerb ticketing program into the political science department on campus, with expansion into other departments likely in the future. ATLAS currently uses the Cerb ticketing program to track tasks and responsibilities; Isabelle's goal is to implement it in the other departments to make...
Student Spotlights
Di Qiang is a senior studying mathematics and economics. She works with an intern supervisor to make flowcharts that analyze aspects of the internship application process. They look at these flowcharts and determine how they can improve application procedures for everyone to make the application process easier. As a Workflow Specialist she also uses FormBuilder, a site to help...
Elise Snyder is an integrative biology major with an English minor whose internship focuses on helping the I.D.E.A. Store in Champaign. She works as their Social Media Specialist, working primarily on Facebook. While she occasionally goes to the store to take photos for her posts, she spends most of her time composing posts remotely. Before this, she didn’t know how social media was used in...
Ginny Lee is a mathematics major with both a computer science and informatics minor. Her internship is centered around recreating a website for NetMath Weekly and implementing a new design on a new platform. She works closely with her partner from the website to implement feedback in the design process of the new website. This internship has given her a lot of experience in the field she...
Lucy Xi Liu is an actuarial science and economics double-major with an informatics minor. Lucy is currently helping to organize the ATLAS website. She works closely with full-time staff to edit the information that represent the different groups under ATLAS. She gets in contact with those groups, asks for updates that they want to be posted, and then sends the posts she creates for approval....
Anya Kanevskaya is a junior majoring in English. She is working as an intern with the goal of improving documentation existing within ATLAS on both Publish and Moodle. She does this by transferring information or editing existing documents. She has built skills like compiling data, problem-solving and documentation. She says that even though working with computers doesn’t fit in...
Sarah McCabe, a communications major, is working as an intern for ATLAS to promote awareness of the technological resources available to students. She creates a small blurb every week about a different resource students might not know about and submits it to the LAS LineUp newsletter for publication. She says this internship has benefited her because it has allowed her to utilize her love of...
Euphy Wu is a senior and a Data Science Intern with ATLAS. She has been working on structuring a better way for people to pull out specific designed data from their material. She works with her clients, meeting with them monthly to determine their specific needs and wants. She also works with ATLAS staff and has learned a great deal about SQL and structuring code through the internship...
Naqia Haideri is a senior studying psychology and communications with a minor in informatics. Her internship revolves around managing the other interns and expanding the program. She has advertised the program by designing and distributing flyers and has held info sessions to recruit students. She has been an intern with ATLAS for three semesters now and has even picked her...
Junshu Wang is a senior double majoring in psychology and East Asian languages and cultures, and has been an intern for ATLAS since the Summer of 2017. The reason Junshu was interested in becoming an ATLAS intern was because he was looking for an experience that connected with his majors, providing opportunities for him to learn something new and giving him applied experience in...