Postcards is a zero-clutter social media site that closes the generation gap. It connects users of vastly different ages through the use of age-proof postcards—online cards that family and friends can post to update loved ones on their whereabouts. Postcards allows users to request assistance from others within the group, helping families and friends support one another.

Jean Walkinshaw is a Seattle native and Emmy award winning documentary film producer. She has worked for local outlets like KING-TV and KCTS, as well as national channels including The History Channel. She has produced more than 45 documentaries on topics such as Mt. Rainier, the Columbia River, Northwest artists, homelessness, and more. She donated more than 400 of her films and tapes to the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. The moving image material was processed during this project and will shortly be available to researchers across the globe.

My project is the Rainbow Outreach GLBT Center Library Metadata Creation for The University of Nebraska Omaha, Archives and Special Collections, Queer Omaha Archives. None of the several thousand books donated had been cataloged prior to the beginning of my project. The sheer volume of material paired with a limited number of staff hampered the efforts to make holdings available to researchers and members of the LGBTQAI+ community. I created constant data and MARC records for the book collection, and over 450 books have been cataloged to date and can now be accessed through the UNO Criss Library catalog.

Local scene, global stage.

Earn money, save the environment, rent to others.

Freedom Education Project Puget Sound is a nonprofit that provides a higher education program at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. The accredited program previously offered a research skills course that gave first-year students the skills necessary to conduct academic research in a context where there is no access to the internet or academic resources. This project is a re-visioning of the research instruction program that involved building information literacy workshops into a required first-year course by creating and delivering a new curriculum. It is part of a broader effort to expand the research program for FEPPS students.

PATH and MSR® Global Health developed the SafiStation™, an innovative and easy-to-use device that generates chlorine for infection prevention and water treatment in low-resource health care facilities. PATH is preparing to conduct a field test of up to 50 SafiStation devices across three countries to evaluate device performance, impact, and usability. We created a web-based dashboard to combine data automatically collected by the device with digital surveys in order to visualize chlorine production and cost savings. The dashboard will help PATH efficiently and effectively monitor the device in the field and make conclusions about the best market for the SafiStation.

PATH and MSR® Global Health developed the SafiStation™, an innovative and easy-to-use device that generates chlorine for infection prevention and water treatment in low-resource health care facilities. PATH is preparing to conduct a field test of up to 50 SafiStation devices across three countries to evaluate device performance, impact, and usability. We created an integrated web-based data dashboard to automatically collect and visualize technical performance data collected directly from the device using cellular networks. The dashboard will give PATH and MSR access to real-time performance and functionality data to monitor device usage and identify challenges with the technical performance.

Small business owners are often willfully ignorant to the threats of data breaches, deeming it too costly and unnecessary which leaves them prime targets to cyber-attacks. Schniffer, created by INFO students Jason Peacher-Ton and Jingyu Yang, is a low-cost, all-encompassing network monitoring and vulnerability scanning tool, acting as a first line of defense for small businesses against cyber-threats.