Meet Katie Frye a Ph.D. student in Microbiology and a COVID-19 SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell team member. 

It was really when I came out for my interview weekend for my program that I fell in love with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, they made it clear that I was never going to be competing with my peers and they were a family and we were always going to be supportive, and I could go to anyone in the entire program for help, and that's been true, my entire time here and so I know that I made the right decision.

Get to know our graduate students one exceptional story at a time. Each story reveals the diverse facets of the Illinois experience. Watch the One Story video series.

Nic Morse created this video series, and he is the Digital Media Specialist at the Graduate College. Nic came to the Graduate College after owning his own production company in town called Protagonist Pizza Productions. He now works on videos, graphic design, and motion graphics for higher education at Illinois.