From his time in the Marine Corps, Nicholas Foster served and traveled the world to many distant countries, sparking his divine interest in geography and the natural world. During his tour, he became a certified SCUBA diver and pursued an intense fascination with marine and physical systems. At the completion of his service to his…
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SSI’s Mia Poynor Wins Boren Scholarship
On behalf of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, Dr. Laura Loyola, the Institute’s director of undergraduate studies, announced that SSI senior Mia Poynor has received a prestigious Boren Scholarship for 2019 – 2020. An initiative of the U.S. Department of Defense National Security Education Program, the Boren scholarships fund highly competitive undergraduate students to have…
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USC Spatial announces the 2019 M.S. in GIST Thesis Prize Winners
The USC Spatial Sciences Institute (USC Spatial or SSI) has announced the 2019 prizes for the top three outstanding theses by graduating students in the M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) program. This year’s M. S. in GIST thesis prize winners are: Christopher Marder, first place, for his thesis “The Role of Precision…
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USC Spatial’s Alanna Schenk wins Fulbright award
Alanna Schenk has received a 2019 – 2020 Fulbright award to study in the Master of European Studies program with an Arctic Specialization at Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. Schenk is graduating USC in May 2019 with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence (HSGI) offered by the…
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