Category Archives: GeoDesign alumni

Courtney Fassett is a GeoDesign major and Spanish minor at the University of Southern California Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute where she is a Presidential Scholar and a 2016/2017 recipient of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Scholarship. At USC, Courtney is a student researcher working on a team lead by Dr. John Wilson and Beau MacDonald…

Maps were my first fascination, dating all the way to elementary school where I would stare at maps of my area and list off streets before my mom got to them. When I got my first car, I would wander throughout the Pacific Northwest, trying to truly understand the flavor each city had. When I…

I have always found maps fascinating. Growing up, the kids in the neighborhood and I would always play games outside together. Once I discovered Google Maps, I would take screenshots with the satellite imagery of our neighborhood and annotate different “territories” with boundaries, colored shading, and other symbols. We would all then use my maps…

My mom has a habit of misplacing her car in parking lots. She tells me that when I was three years old, I led her to the car when she had no recollection of where it was. It seems that I have always been spatially aware of my surroundings. I love to think about place…