Week 7:
Global Zero
February 6, 2014 | One of the last things I did during my fellowship was prepare a report on the outcomes of my social media work. Here are some excerpts from the section where I described content models I developed, and remarked on how they did… New Content Models 1. Sciencey / educational photo essay with anti-nuke message: Remarks: This […]
Week 3:
Carver College of Medicine
February 4, 2014 | This week the lab hasn’t been able to run any bone-scans, so there have not been any participant visits in a little while. Mostly this has been a week of data entry, but I am on the board for shadowing this Thursday’s patient visit! I also got to shadow Sean as he prepared blood samples for human DNA […]
Week 2:
Carver College of Medicine
January 30, 2014 | Real world lesson for the week: the research of emotional anguish is itself stressful, complicated, and often disheartening. On Tuesday I was suppossed to shadow a visit with Sean, another student research assistant. Unfortunately his participant experiences extreme anxiety and social phobia, and Sean thought the presence of two researchers might overwhelm her. The second visit was supposed […]
Week 6:
Global Zero
January 29, 2014 | With only two weeks left in my fellowship, I am spending more time reflecting on what I have accomplished thus far and what I still want to accomplish while I’m here. This past week I made progress on a writing assignment that is very important to me, and managed to get a lot of smaller […]
Week 7:
1st Stage Theatre
January 29, 2014 | This week I got to work on quite a few projects. There is the ongoing project of taking calls and making reservations. We’re getting quite a few for Souvenir. It’s going to be a great production! Also, since we’ll be opening soon and will then be running for several weeks, we sent postcards to our patrons […]
Week 5:
Global Zero
January 23, 2014 | I have spent a lot of the past week continuing to develop the concept of my editorial blog post. I noted in a previous post about how my major in History has prepared me to think about issues and events in terms of arguable thesis, and that continues to help my approach. One new area […]
Week 6:
1st Stage Theatre
January 22, 2014 | As a professional theatre, we pay our actors and designers. And any time we pay actors and designers, we have to also pay our government. This week, I tracked down some stray tax forms and then learned how our tax software works and how to enter the amounts we’ve paid into the system. This was […]
Week 1:
Carver College of Medicine
January 22, 2014 | The Calarge lab is quite an operation! I am one of the sixteen who assist Dr. Chadi Calarge in his studies of the psychiatric medication of adolescents. His lab is a part of the massive University of Iowa hospital system. I had no idea it was so big! My hope as a psychology major is to one day become […]
Week 5:
1st Stage Theatre
January 15, 2014 | As I mentioned last week, my goals for the rest of my internship all revolve around this new data system: Altru. This software does ticketing and also includes a searchable database of all the constituents. It helps us keep track of how much revenue we’re generating from each show and how much we receive from […]
Week 4:
Global Zero
January 14, 2014 | My work level this past week ratcheted up another level as I tried to balance my time between my creative work and some other tedious (but very time consuming) stuff I have been tasked with. On the creative front I designed a new mini-series of info graphics to roll out on the social media platforms. […]