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Capstone projects are the culmination of students' learning experience at the iSchool. They distill the knowledge and skills acquired in academic courses and apply them to a real-world project.

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Award-Winning Capstone Projects

Mejorando la Colección
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Mejorando la Colección

Our team partnered with a school librarian, from a K-12 public school district that has a significant percentage of Spanish-speaking students, to find titles in Spanish that could be added to the already existing collection. The team used our Spanish-speaking skills to search for titles spanning kindergarten through young adult reading levels. We vetted our selections with book
Viscera: a site dedicated to connecting Black women to quality healthcare
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Viscera: a site dedicated to connecting Black women to quality healthcare

Viscera is a platform that allows black women to write and read reviews about their potential doctors. The reviews are written by black women for black women. This can help to encourage and help black women to find suitable doctors so they can feel safe and cared for. Research shows that Black women's basic health needs are not being met and are constantly overlooked. They are
SustainaBUILD: Helping small businesses adopt sustainable packaging
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SustainaBUILD: Helping small businesses adopt sustainable packaging

Packaging and containers currently account for roughly 28% of all solid waste in the United States. Businesses are not incentivized to transition to sustainable packaging when plastic packaging is cheaper and easier to access. SustainaBUILD analyzes the current packaging consumption of small foodservice businesses and recommends sustainable alternatives, informed by current cit
Aida: Visualizing Medical Needs for Limited English Proficiency Users
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Aida: Visualizing Medical Needs for Limited English Proficiency Users

8.6% of the American population are not proficient in English and find it difficult to access healthcare that is predominately provided in English. Communication issues caused by language barriers make Limited English Proficiency (LEP) individuals vulnerable to poor health outcomes. To help tackle this information problem, we created Aida. Aida is an app that allows users to in
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Capstone is the culmination of students’ learning experience at the iSchool. For their Capstone projects, Informatics, MLIS, and MSIM students work independently or with sponsors to identify real-world information problems. Then, they develop the approaches and methods needed to address these problems, conduct the research, and finally present their findings in both oral and written formats. Students collaborate with faculty researchers or diverse sponsor organizations from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. While students are encouraged to work in teams of their choosing, individual projects are also welcome.

Students identify projects and potential sponsors during the Autumn quarter (September-December). Work on Capstone projects then begins during winter quarter (January-March) and is completed during spring quarter (March-June).

The final piece is the Capstone Gala event at the end of May. Students present their projects to an audience of faculty, friends, family, colleagues, industry partners and sponsors, as well as a panel of judges who evaluate the projects for a number of awards. The Capstone Gala is the iSchool's most popular and prestigious event of the year. Read our recap of the 2022 event. 

We invite iAffiliates and community partners to work with our students to tackle a complex information challenge in their organization. By partnering on a Capstone project, you can advance your innovation goals while supporting student success and getting a chance to evaluate future talent. Learn how to partner with iSchool students on a Capstone project.

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Capstone 2018

Highlights from the annual Capstone event, showcasing how students have partnered with organizations to solve information challenges.

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Akshita Gundavarapu, Emily Smokoff, Erica Gordy, Audrey Dennis, Meghan Munagala.

Informatics students make climate data easier to visualize

Thursday, June 1, 2023
Climate change is a complex problem, and it's hard to grasp exactly how much carbon people are putting into the atmosphere. Policymakers who are trying to cut carbon emissions, however, need a good understanding of the current situation to...
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Pournami Varma (left) presents a poster on “Using Family Health Informatics to Improve Asthma.”

Informatics students show their work at research symposium

Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Fifteen Information School students presented their research at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium on May 19. They were among more than 1,000 students participating from across the University of Washington.  One of the...
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Informatics Program Overview for Future UW Seattle Freshman and Current High School Students

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MSIM Program Overview

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9:00-11:00AM

Dissertation Proposal Defense - Justin Petelka

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3:00-4:00PM

MLIS Law Librarianship Information Session

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