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Making LA Age-Friendly

On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute faculty and students in the USC Age-Friendly Los Angeles “Wicked Problems” Practicum will join colleagues from across the university in presenting their findings on ways to make the City of Los Angeles a better place in which to age. At this practicum final event, the…
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Spatial Analysis and High Rent

USC Spatial Sciences Institute Founding Director and Professor John P. Wilson, Ph.D., was a featured speaker at a recent program presented by the USC Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics on “Gentrification, Densification, and Why Rent Is Too Damn High.” Joining Wilson on stage at the October 3, 2017 event were Richard Close, President, Sherman Oaks…
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Teaching Teachers About Geospatial Technologies

USC Spatial’s Kirk Oda to lead workshop for middle and high school educators On Monday, January 8, 2018, from 8 am - 3:30 pm, Dr. Katsuhiko Oda, Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Spatial Sciences in the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, will conduct a workshop for middle and high school teachers to learn how to use geospatial…
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Spatial Computing Successes

Students of USC Spatial’s Yao-Yi Chiang win awards Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang, Associate Professor (Research) of Spatial Sciences in the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, announced the accomplishments of two of his students in his Spatial Computing Lab. Weiwei Duan, a Ph.D. student in computer science and spatial sciences, was one of three winners in the U.S.…
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