Sabrina Lee

Illinois Newsroom • 17th May 2021

University Of Illinois Class Of 2021 Graduates Reflect On COVID Graduation

URBANA — Bells rang across the University of Illinois’s main quadrangle as seniors lined up at Alma Mater to take graduation pictures by Altgeld Tower. Pandemic or no, May is still graduation season on the Urbana campus. An estimated 5,600...

Sabrina Lee • 15th January 2021

Worth It: Broke College Student Edition

I created a Buzzfeed inspired video for a job application earlier in the year, and I am really quite proud of it. I intend to create a series out of it at some point.

YouTube • 25th December 2020

Behind the MaSK

This video was created for Charles "Stretch" Ledford's JOUR 215 course at UIUC. Selena Cruz is the co-founder of MaSK, a small business that makes and sells ...

YouTube • 22nd December 2020

Masked Librarians

This video was shot for Charles "Stretch" Ledford's JOUR 215 course at UIUC. Books to Prisoners is an Urbana Illinois based nonprofit organization dedicated ...

YouTube • 22nd December 2020

TikTok Content Creators are Changing the Education Game

This video was created in a vertical format that was made for social media platforms. It was created for Alison Wood's JOUR 340 class at UIUC. Jorge Calderin...

CU-CitizenAccess.org • 22nd December 2020

Champaign Park District sells off annual flowers due to COVID-19

The Champaign Park District is well known for their spring and summer planting of beds of flowers across various parks in the Champaign County area. But this year, the district was unable to plant flowers due to staff shortages caused by the...

CU-CitizenAccess.org • 22nd December 2020

Champaign County rail systems see frequent transport of hazardous materials

Approximately 107 trains, often carrying hazardous materials, pass through Champaign County’s 225 miles of active rail lines each day. Freight traffic accounts for about 101 of these trains. These freighters transport a variety of materials and...

CU-CitizenAccess.org • 2nd November 2020

Democratic Rep. Sean Casten focuses on media buying in 2020 election

In his first-time incumbent election cycle, Rep. Sean Casten has spent $3,157,127 this election cycle as of October 1, nearly half of what he spent last election cycle. In the 2018 congressional election, Democrat Casten spent upwards of $6 million,...

The Daily Illini • 29th April 2020

Opinion | Reconnecting with your younger self reignites childlike happiness

Returning home prematurely was not part of anyone’s plan for this year. It certainly wasn’t part of mine, but here I sit in the bedroom I grew up in, writing this article. Being back under our parents’ roofs and having that freedom of college life...

The Daily Illini • 13th April 2020

Opinion | Social distancing is not end of world

For the first time since arriving home, I’ve felt the true impact of social distancing. A few days ago, I stopped by my best friend’s house to say hello after going on a grocery run. Under normal circumstances, I would have just entered the house...

The Daily Illini • 2nd April 2020

Opinion| Appreciate animals in your life

I am the proud owner of a two-and-a-half-year-old Havanese dog named Emmy. She is the absolute light of my life, and I look forward to seeing her every time I come home from school. However, with Gov. Pritzker’s new stay-at-home order, my visit home...

The Daily Illini • 28th March 2020

Opinion | Allergy medication should be more accessible

An unopened EpiPen box rests on a table. The rising cost of EpiPens has forced people with allergies to look for alternatives. Freshman year of college is an exciting time for many reasons. For some, it’s the freedom of being away from home. For me,...

The Daily Illini • 4th March 2020

Opinion | Coronavirus is not an excuse to be racist

Masked shoppers in a supermarket in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, in central China’s Hubei province on Feb. 10. Many students on campus have been affected by the coronavirus as they have family members still living in China. Now...

The Daily Illini • 4th December 2017

Campustown restaurants give back to community with fundraisers

Zach Deliberto serving pizza at Mia Za’s on Green Street on Dec. 1, 2017. Za’s is one of many businesses who regularly partners with RSOs on campus to support certain causes. If you were to walk into the Green Street Potbelly on most days between 5...

The Daily Illini • 19th November 2017

Author Maggie Stiefvater discusses latest book at the Urbana Free Library

Maggie Stiefvater, New York Times bestselling author, visited the Urbana Free Library on Wednesday to discuss her new book, “All the Crooked Saints.” Some of Stiefvater’s other notable works include “The Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy,” “The Raven...

The Daily Illini • 1st November 2017

Teamoji brings unique drinks to Green Street

Students wait in line to order at Teamoji on Oct. 16, 2017. Made with cheese, heavy cream and milk, the frothy concoction is frozen and blended to a smooth, fluffy consistency, and is then poured over the customer’s drink of choice. These ingredients...

The Daily Illini • 25th October 2017

Springer Cultural Center hosts

The art exhibition All in the Family was held at the Springer Cultural Center located at 301 N. Randolph St. on Oct. 16, 2017. The exhibition, features the art pieces were created by The Widholm Family. Three Generations of Artists will be open to the...

The Daily Illini • 9th October 2017

The Script brings classic rock hits to State Farm Center

The Script performs at the State Farm Center on Saturday. The band entertained the crowd with a rich mix of classic hits. Flashing lights and smoke engulfed the arena at the State Farm Center on Saturday. A set of cyan neon wings glowed brightly from...