The Master's Science of Informatics program is a 30-unit accelerated executive style master's degree that's 100% online for students who wish to take it from really anywhere in the world. We have two tracks in our program which we call career pathways, one for students interested in health informatics and another for students interested in careers in cybersecurity and privacy or they can mix and match between the two and take a general approach for the degree. Somebody who focuses on health informatics pathway will focus on data analytics within the healthcare system. Somebody who focuses on cybersecurity will take classes relating to forensics, networking, cybersecurity but I must add that you can't have health informatics without understanding cybersecurity. We have to protect health information. So students are required to take core courses both on the health informatics side and on the cybersecurity side. The use and interpretation of information is actively used in virtually any sector or organization so we have students who are interested in applying informatics in the fields of government and business, corporations, military, education. There is a wide applicability for the use and interpretation of information in virtually every sector and the informatics program is designed to have a wide range of topics covered in our courses in order to support students to be able to speak the language of technical business, to be able to go into an organization and work with all these different teams and groups in order to create systems and processes that support capturing and protection of information and making them useful, accessible and available to their audiences. The job market is actually great. There's a huge demand for cybersecurity expertise and those job titles include information security analyst, cybersecurity analyst, network administrator, database administrator. Every organization has a need for this type of professional. There is a wide range of opportunity that transcends different types of departments and organizations and sectors and so really students can apply their informatics skillset wherever they wish to take it. The program is a 100-percent online program that is that really does meet the student's schedule and so they can pursue it from wherever they are. The School of Information is a well-respected program nationally. We have students from across the globe actually that participate and receive and earn degrees in our program and I strongly encourage students to get to know other students, to form relationships with them, to build study groups. I would like to invite anyone who is interested in this program to contact me if they have any questions. It is a rigorous and challenging endeavor but it is full of great reward and positive outcomes and our faculty is engaged and is here to support you and we're very excited to work with you and to get to know you.


Hi, I'm Michelle Luji, the artist behind Persistence, a collaborative public art project on the Bennett Man Bikeway in Arlington. I worked on that project with volunteers and people who donated single-use plastic bags to crochet and assemble into the sculptural elements that you see on the bike path. And now I'm asking for your help again. I'm working on another project. I'm using single-use plastic waste. So I'm looking to collect bottle caps and contact lens containers, spools, any type of plastic bit that comes your way that is single use. I would be really happy to collect and use for my personal artwork. Thank you so much. There's a collection bin at Greater Goods Collective at 218 Massab in Arlington.