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Information School affiliates have access to a variety of software. Information about some specific software titles is below.

Software for Home and Instructional Use

Microsoft Office

Every UW student, staff member, and faculty member has an Office 365 license. This license allows you to download and install Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Teams) on up to five computers (Windows or macOS). More information about Office 365 ProPlus and how to download it are available at the UW-IT UWare site.

Microsoft Development Tools

Microsoft has made software available to students, staff, and faculty through Azure Dev Tools for Teaching. Through this program, you can download free copies of Windows (client and server), Access, Visio, Project, Visual Studio Code, and SQL Server Management Studio, among other titles. To obtain this software, go to the Azure Dev Tools for Teaching site, enter your UW email address, select "Work or school account," and then enter your UW credentials at the UW login page.

OnTheHub Software

The Information School has an OnTheHub site where you can download various software titles like IBM SPSS, Parallels Desktop, EndNote, Norton Security and Adobe Creative Cloud. Most titles are free and some are discounted.

VMware Software

The Information School has made VMware software available to our students and faculty. Titles include VMware Fusion, which is enterprise-class virtual machine software that allows you to run various operating systems on your Mac.

Overleaf LaTeX Editor

Information School Faculty and Ph.D. Students are eligible for an Overleaf Professional account. Access to an Overleaf Professional account can be provided by contacting iSchool IT.

Qualtrics

The Information School has a license for Qualtrics. Qualtrics is a web-based software that can be used to create surveys and generate reports. Access is available to all iSchool students, faculty and staff via this web link: iSchool Qualtrics

ATLAS.ti

The Information School has a license for ATLAS.ti, a qualitative data analysis software. To access the iSchool's license for ATLAS.ti please contact iSchool IT.

Software in the iSchool Computer Labs

We have installed an extensive collection of software, from a wide variety of companies, on the computers in the iSchool computer labs and on our research workstations. Most applications are market leaders in their particular segment. Generally, we stay current with all major releases of software. Most applications are available on every computer in the iSchool.

We do support the Macintosh platform in the iSchool and are now offering both macOS and Windows on all of the Apple computers in our labs. Students may also provision a checkout server and install an alternative operating system such as Linux.

UW Software

Students have access to UW's CRC computing labs and their software. Software for both macOS and Windows computers is available. View software available in CRC labs.

All UW students, staff, and faculty have accounts on UW servers. The UW servers are part of a Linux cluster managed by UW-IT, UW's central computing-support organization. The UW servers are used for things like web publishing, shell access, and MySQL. The cluster that hosts student resources is called Dante and the cluster that hosts staff and faculty resources is called Homer.

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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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Events

Jun 7
 
4:00-5:00PM

Informatics Program Overview for Future UW Seattle Freshman and Current High School Students

Zoom / Online
Jun 7
 
6:00-7:00PM

MSIM Program Overview

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Jun 9
 
9:00-11:00AM

Dissertation Proposal Defense - Justin Petelka

Zoom
Jun 9
 
3:00-4:00PM

MLIS Law Librarianship Information Session

Zoom / Online
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