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Yao-Yi Chiang receives NEH grant

Today the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced funding for a collaborative research and development project by Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute with Deborah Holmes-Wong of the USC Digital Library entitled “Unlocking Maps: Automatic and Streamlined Metadata Creation for Digital Collections.” With this NEH grant funding, Chiang, an assistant professor…
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Nathan Novak Wins UNIGIS Prize

The UNIGIS International Association has announced it has named Nathan Novak runner-up in its 2016 Academic Excellence Prize competition for his thesis work conducted at the University of Southern California Spatial Sciences Institute’s M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) graduate program. An independent review board analyzed master theses nominated by UIA centers, which…
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“Just Who Will You Be?”

COL [R] Steven D. Fleming, SSI Professor of the Practice, shared some thoughts on how to live a purpose-driven life in the Spatial Sciences Institute Brown Bag series on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. Taking the title of his remarks from the title of Maria Schriver’s best-selling book Just Who Will You Be?, Professor Fleming gave…
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Onstage in Beijing

John P. Wilson, USC Spatial Sciences Institute founding director and professor, recently joined Esri co-founder and president, Jack Dangermond for Dangermond's plenary address for the Institute for Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. Following Dangermond's address on "GIS -- Creating a Smarter World," a panel fielded questions…
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