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SSI Strategizes Future of Online GIS Education at UNIGIS Meeting in Croatia

The 2014 UNIGIS annual Business Meeting was held in Zagreb, Croatia at the Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb from October 23-26, 2014. UNIGIS is an international association of universities working together to develop online curricula and conduct research in geospatial technologies and meeting participants converged on Croatia from participating universities and study centers worldwide.…
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A Space for Health

[caption id="attachment_7391" align="alignright" width="430"] John Wilson of spatial sciences leads the teaching of spatial technologies in the recently launched GeoHealth track — the first education collaboration of its kind. Photo by Geoffrey Kass.[/caption] USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute and Keck School of Medicine of USC launch GeoHealth as part of the online Master of Public…
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Close Look at Baldwin Hills

Spatial scientist Travis Longcore brings new tools to classic conservation efforts in a new environmental study of Baldwin Hills. Read more >
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MS Candidate Organizes Educational Exchange in Tanzania

GIST M.S. candidate and U.S. Army Major Dave Staffel recently gathered ten undergraduate officer candidates from various U.S. universities and their Maasai guide in front of an ancient baobob tree in Tanzania.  The cadets taught  English to Tanzanian junior officer cadets as part of the U.S. Army Cadet Command's Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency Program.  Congrats,…
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