{"id":26174,"date":"2026-07-22T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=26174"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:19:17","slug":"spotlight-industrial-organizational-psychology-student-gains-real-world-experience-at-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/07\/22\/spotlight-industrial-organizational-psychology-student-gains-real-world-experience-at-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Industrial-Organizational Psychology student gains real-world experience at Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lance Poole, an Industrial-Organizational Psychology major, is gaining valuable real-world experience this summer as a learning and development intern at Rocket\u2019s headquarters in downtown Detroit.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:180}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">As an intern, Poole helps design leadership development programs, create learning resources, analyze workplace culture data, support learning technology platforms and shadows professionals across the organization. He will enter his senior year at Detroit Mercy this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26176 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/poole-collage.jpg?resize=615%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Two images of Lance Poole working at internship at Rocket\" width=\"615\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/poole-collage.jpg?resize=300%2C142&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/poole-collage.jpg?resize=1024%2C483&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/poole-collage.jpg?resize=768%2C362&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/poole-collage.jpg?w=1062&amp;ssl=1 1062w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UDM student Lance Poole is building his professional skills this summer through a learning and development internship at Rocket, where he is gaining valuable experience at the company\u2019s downtown Detroit headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":26175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4083],"tags":[6164,6165,6704,5171,7184,6772,7461,486,6561,1355,4223],"class_list":["post-26174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-spotlight","tag-chass","tag-college-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences","tag-department-of-psychology","tag-i-o-psychology","tag-industrial-organizational-psychology","tag-industrial-organizational-psychology-program","tag-lance-poole","tag-psychology","tag-psychology-department","tag-rocket","tag-student-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/Poole-headshot.jpg?fit=150%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6Oa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26184,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions\/26184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}