Consulting Staff

Dawn Nicholson-Owens

Dawn is the data archivist at ATLAS, and the University of Illinois' official representative to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). She has an M.A. in Sociology from UIUC and has worked at ATLAS (and its former incarnations) in various capacities since 1989. In addition to providing social science data to members of the university community, she provides consulting on data management and programming in SPSS and SAS. Dawn holds Data Services Office Hours every Wednesday in the Government Documents Library.

Maryalice Wu

Maryalice is the supervisor of the statistical and GIS graduate consultants. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has been a statistical consultant at ATLAS since 1999. In addition, she has taught several courses at the University of Illinois including Introduction to Social Statistics (SOC 280) and Social Research Methods (Soc 380). She provides consulting on SPSS, Stata, SAS, research methodology, and survey design.

Marina Kogan

Comming soon!

Jennifer Sanchez

Coming soon!

Lan Luo

Lan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography. This is her first year working at ATLAS as a Statistics & GIS consultant. She provides consulting on statistical and spatial analysis with a focus on SAS and ArcGIS. She received her B.S. in Environmental Science from Zhejiang University in China. She obtained her M.S. in Geography from Northern Illinois University. Lan has experience teaching Location Analysis and worked as a GIS consultant during her summer internship.

Chandler Armstrong

Chandler is a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Sociology. This is his first year working at ATLAS as a Statistics & GIS consultant. His focus is on SAS, but is comfortable with STATA and SPSS, and familiar with ArcGIS. He also enjoys using high-level program languages, notably Lua and Python. He received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.