About: Susan Kamei

Joining the faculty ranks of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute are three talented and diverse spatial scientists. Katherine A. Lester Katherine A. Lester, Ph.D., lecturer, is a medical geographer who investigates the spatial relationship between suicide, mental illness and race and ethnicity. With a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship, she developed a novel framework…

The International Society for Geomorphometry has announced that John P. Wilson, Professor and Founding Director of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, is receiving its 2023 Geomorphometry Lifetime Achievement Award. The society will recognize Wilson with this award at its 2023 conference from July 10 - 14, in Iasi, Romania. Past recipients of the Geomorphometry Lifetime…

SSI Founding Director and Professor John P. Wilson, Ph.D.,  and Kenan Li, Ph.D., a former SSI research scientist, have published a paper on "Modeling the Health Benefits of Superblocks across the City of Los Angeles" in Applied Sciences. The article was published on February 6, 2023. The term "Superblocks" entered the urban planning vocabulary in 2020…

Dr. Avery R. Everhart, a 2022 graduate of the USC Population, Health and Place doctoral program, is joining the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia as a tenure-track assistant professor of GIS, Cartography and Transformation as of July 1, 2023. A social and spatial scientist with expertise in transgender health and human rights,…