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GIST Student To Present Election Research at Regional Arc Users Meeting

GIST M.S. student Luke Wenschhof cares about your vote.  Or more specifically, he cares about the way in which all votes are counted, and the anomaly of the US electoral college in which a candidate can be elected president without winning the popular vote.  Luke investigated the geographic consequences of the use of the electoral…
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Spatial Sciences Happenings on Catalina Island

Students and faculty from the Spatial Sciences Institute are a regular presence at the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Catalina Island.  GIST students all spend a week on the island to study GPS and its integration into GIS in an environment amenable to field work.  Presence on the island also brings students in staff…
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Near-Roadway Air Pollution a Major Contributer to Asthma in Los Angeles County, USC Research Finds

State policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have maximum health benefits if coupled with policies to reduce near-roadway exposure, study says LOS ANGELES –Research conducted at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Spatial Sciences Institute, and Program for Environmental and Regional Equity indicates that at least 8 percent of the more than 300,000 cases of…
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GIST Student Awarded Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Scholarship

[caption id="attachment_3226" align="alignleft" width="225"] GIST student Shawn Baldwin has received a scholarship from the Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.[/caption]The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has awarded USC GIST student Shawn Baldwin one of its 2012 graduate student fellowships.  Recipients of the highly competitive $5,000 awards are selected by an independent panel of geospatial intelligence professionals.  All…
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