Spatial Sciences students are encouraged to prepare for the 2012 GIS Specialty Group (GISSG) Honors Competition for Student Papers in Geographic Information Science to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Dr. Dan Goldberg, Associate Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, is coordinating the competition. The Spatial Sciences Institute has two faculty members…
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GIS Research Lab Maps Landscape of Need for Los Angeles Community Gardens
Access to fresh, healthy food is limited in many low income neighborhoods, a phenomenon that has lead to the description of “food deserts” where only low quality and unhealthy foods are available. As part of the City of Los Angeles’ food policy efforts, the City sponsored research to describe these food deserts and how they…
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SSI Affiliate Partners with JEP to Prevent Skin Cancer
Since 2006, SSI Faculty Affiliate Myles Cockburn of the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Joint Educational Project (JEP) have collaborated on SunSmart, a sun safety and skin cancer prevention program targeted to school children in grades 4-8. Developed by Professor Myles Cockburn and clinical colleagues at Keck School of Medicine, the program teaches children…
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SSI PhD Student Accepts Internship at Esri
Kaveh Shahabi, SSI PhD student in Computer Science has accepted an internship position at the Esri Application Prototype Lab for the summer. Kaveh will join Esri and become part of a talented team of students that will create innovative mapcentric infographic displays and integrate web services and geoprocessing for web-based analysis to solve real-world problems. The APL…
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