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Students from public and private universities throughout New York are drawn to summer internships at Cornell, where the Alliance for Diversity and Inclusion (ADI) matches applicants with potential teams and supervisors in Cornell Information Technology (CIT), eCornell, Cornell Retail Services, and other campus departments and divisions.
The interns work to accomplish team goals assigned by their supervisors, building career skills along the way. This week, meet two of the student interns from Cornell and one from Binghamton University who each tackled projects requiring them to rapidly acquire knowledge in an unfamiliar setting, learn new tools, and collaborate with experienced team members to arrive at a solution.
- Haven Collinsworth, a Psychology major at Binghamton University, discovered his role as a content wrangler meant overhauling the documentation for CIT managed servers. Despite his initial lack of experience with managed servers, Collinsworth systematically reviewed all existing articles, assessing their content and identifying areas for improvement, then delegated specific pages to subject-matter experts in the team. Based on his analysis and insights from his team leader, he developed a new organizational framework that better aligned with the managed server team’s objectives for information dissemination.
- Ava Zhang, a Cornell Computer and Information Science major, spent the summer as a product management intern with eCornell. Her role meant applying the data science thinking and statistical analysis skills acquired in her Cornell courses to analyze various indexes of the eCornell course certificate dataset. She also learned to use visualization tools like Tableau, and working with experienced professionals helped her see how organized data informs strategic decisions and drives organizational change.
- Matthew Mentis-Cort, a Cornell Computer and Information Sciences major, was hired to assist Cornell Retail Services in optimizing their cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Translating the team’s desired outcomes into results that could be achieved with the systems’ existing configuration proved difficult and required creative problem-solving. He learned to be unsurprised when steps that seemed intuitive did not work, and he focused on finding and testing the next approach rather than pausing and brainstorming how to perfect a previous attempt.
More than 30 interns bridged knowledge gaps not just for themselves, but also for their teams during the summer of 2024. Read more intern stories in the ADI website to better understand the breadth of the program and the types of talented applicants it attracts.
Cornell supervisors interested in participating in the 2025 cohort should contact Tammy Dibble, Director of Human Resources in Cornell's Office of the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prospective internship applicants can join a mailing list for new job announcements by emailing adi-intern@cornell.edu.
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