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All students enrolled in the Informatics major are eligible to complete Departmental Honors in the program. Requirements to receive Departmental Honors are as follows:

  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3.
  • Minimum GPA of 3.5 in all UW Informatics courses.
  • Minimum of 12 credits of honors coursework, including:
    • Two ad-hoc* honors Informatics courses at the 300- or 400-level.
    • At least two credits of INFO 496: Service Learning or INFO 499: Independent Study.**

* More information about completing ad-hoc requirements can be found on the UW Honors website.

** More information about INFO 496: Service Learning and INFO 499: Independent Study can be found in our Experiential Learning section. 

If you are interested in pursuing Departmental Honors, please email informatics@uw.edu.

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John Adler looks up from a computer surrounded by maps.

MLIS student's archive to help track ecological change

Thursday, May 28, 2026
Scientists at the National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON, study how ecosystems change over time. But their field instruments and low-altitude aircraft capture only short windows of data, and NEON does not have a standing...
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Arohee Kumar, Jules Braun, Keilani Uehara and Audrey Phan are pictured wearing orange visibility jackets.

Informatics team helps get WSDOT's app in gear

Tuesday, May 26, 2026
The Washington State Department of Transportation app features extensive transportation information such as schedules, traffic alerts and weather reports, but it hasn’t been updated in about seven years. A team of Informatics students...
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Events

Jun 6
 
12:00-2:30 PM

Information School Convocation

Hec Edmundson Pavilion
Jun 10
 
5:30-8:00 PM

Campfire Sessions: Transportation Topics

Urban Family Brewing Co.
Jun 11
 
5:00-6:00 PM

AI for Organizations Graduate Certificate Information Session & Q&A

Jun 16
 
1:00-2:00 PM

MSIM Fireside Chat with the Chair

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