Opportunities by Topic/Deliverable

Graduate students assess and evaluate cultural heritage collections, services, programs or tools to document and measure effectiveness, meet user needs and enhance social impact.

Graduate students work on problems of data manipulation, analysis, and visualization, and use enterprise-scale data to improve outcomes, performance or understanding.

Graduate students work with a local city to develop new information tools that foster civic engagement on a broad range of topics.

Student teams test whether public websites, apps and other information services are accessible and useful to city residents and provide recommendations.

U-M student teams work with a client during a two- to three-hour event to provide solutions for an information problem.

Graduate students apply their emerging information skills to evaluate a community challenge through contextual inquiry, needs assessment and more.

In the Information Analytics Capstone, advanced undergraduate students deliver data-oriented solutions through the development and analysis of data sets, building tools to extract useful information for clients through manipulation, analysis and visualization.

In SI 699: LAKES Mastery Course, master's-level graduate students lead special projects relating to librarianship, archival practice and/or digital curation.

Graduate students research and design a tool or product that centers accessibility and the needs/experiences of older adults or people with disabilities.

Graduate students evaluate the user experience of an existing system or product and provide recommendations clients can follow to improve their product.

In SI 581: Preserving Information Resources in a Digital Age, small teams of UMSI Master in Information students conduct a preservation assessment and provide recommendations for a preservation plan that aligns with the needs and context of a project organization.

In SI 336: Social Media in Organizations, undergraduate students work with clients to evaluate the current state of their social media usage and strategy.

Student organization teams complete real-world information projects, giving students the opportunity to ethically engage, practice skills and suggest or effect positive change.

Advanced undergraduates work through the complete user experience (UX) process on projects that require both research and design to provide solutions to clients.

Graduate students help clients bring projects from concept or idea to a minimally viable prototype using agile methodologies.

Undergraduate students work with governmental departments and nonprofit agencies to conduct user research around an information challenge.