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Improving Health in Skid Row with GIS in “Community Health Scan”

Mia Poynor Mudd Hall photo
Using GIS Applications Outside the Classroom: Community Health Scan Mia Poynor is currently an undergraduate junior studying International Health with a minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence. She is the Programming Chair for SCmappers, the Youthmappers chapter for USC. Mia’s academic interests lie in health, disparities, community development, and disaster relief in an international…
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USC Spatial’s Kelly Wright Wins the AAG 2018 Jacques May Thesis Prize

Award recognizes M.S. in GIST alumna’s work to combat the disease tungiasis At the April 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of the AAG awarded the Jacques May Thesis Prize for 2018 to USC Spatial Sciences Institute alumna Katherine “Kelly” Wright. The HMGSG…
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USC Spatial founds new Gamma Theta Upsilon chapter

A New Era for Geography at USC: USC Spatial founds Nu Theta Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon On April 5, 2018, the Spatial Sciences Institute founded the Nu Theta Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), the international geographical honor society recognizing geography’s next generation of leaders. Founded in 1928, Gamma Theta Upsilon became a national…
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SC Mappers Wins YouthMappers’ 2018 Women’s Participation Award

(L-R) Abriannah Aiken, Precious Nwaoha, Andy Rutkowski, Natalie Millstein, and Alex Chen at USC Leavey Library, the Trojan site for the first annual “Battle of Maps” On Tuesday, February 20, 2018, YouthMappers, an international university consortium on Mapping for Resilience, announced that SC Mappers received its 2018 Women's Participation Award for engaging a majority of…
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