Category Archives: SSI News

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Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California, has announced that Dr. Lucio Soibelman has been appointed the new holder of the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering est. 1967. Soibelman is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences. This chair was established through…

Executive Vice Provost Elizabeth A. Graddy, Ph.D., has announced that a multi-disciplinary team including John P. Wilson, Ph.D., and Yolanda Gil, Ph.D., of the Spatial Sciences Institute is one of three teams awarded a 2020 research grant from the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions (CSS). In the announcement, Graddy said, “With support from the Provost’s…

Every year, attendees at Esri’s User Conference (UC) in San Diego eagerly anticipate the release of the Esri® Map Book, the collection of maps that Esri annually selects to showcase how digital geography is helping governments, businesses and citizens to understand and sustain our world. Chosen from among thousands of works of mapmakers worldwide, the…

Steven D. Fleming, Ph.D. (second from right) and Michael Orosz (far right) were featured speakers at a roundtable on human security and geospatial intelligence on November 3, 2016 with International Relations Professor Steven Lamy (far left) and GEN [R] David Petraeus (second from left).    Charles F. Zukoski, provost and senior vice president for academic…