Category Archives: SSI News

Read about the Esri Science Symposium land more. For more information, contact the Spatial Science Institute at 213-740-5910.

Applications for undergraduate student researchers to work with SSI faculty on their research projects and for internships in the Spring 2022 semester are due on Monday, December 6, 2021, 5 pm, emailed to Susan Kamei, SSI Managing Director, at kamei@usc.edu. Learn more about the opportunities here. We seek USC students who have excellent academic records,…

The University of Southern California Spatial Sciences Institute, located in Los Angeles, California, invites applicants for a full-time teaching-track faculty position in the ranks of lecturer, assistant professor (teaching), associate professor (teaching), professor (teaching), assistant professor of the practice, associate professor of the practice and professor of the practice, for the 2022-2023 academic year. The…

When does something old become new? For geographic information science (GIS) masters students at the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, it’s their discovery of the centuries-old practice of cartography, reimagined with 21st-century computer visualization capabilities. Cave paintings from prehistoric times contain evidence of maps, and humans in ancient civilizations constructed maps to capture their expanding understanding…

Dr. Jimmy Wilson, president of Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), the international geographical honor society, has announced that SSI’s Nu Theta chapter at the University of Southern California has received the Honors Chapter Award for 2020-2021. The GTU Honors Chapter Award is given annual to outstanding GTU chapters. The honors chapter criteria are increasing the number…