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Lucio Soibelman named Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering est. 1967

Lucio Soibelman
Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California, has announced that Dr. Lucio Soibelman has been appointed the new holder of the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering est. 1967. Soibelman is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences. This chair was established through…
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Erik Huisman

As a current B.S. GeoDesign student, I often look back at how my childhood led me to be where I am today. Growing up, I was always attracted to maps. I would obsess over ski resort maps during family vacations and rip out airplane route maps from the back of Skymall magazines. I spent my…
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SSI-Viterbi Team Wins 2020 USC Center for Sustainability Solutions Research Grant

Executive Vice Provost Elizabeth A. Graddy, Ph.D., has announced that a multi-disciplinary team including John P. Wilson, Ph.D., and Yolanda Gil, Ph.D., of the Spatial Sciences Institute is one of three teams awarded a 2020 research grant from the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions (CSS). In the announcement, Graddy said, “With support from the Provost’s…
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Ian Kim

Ian Kim, student in the Department of Preventive Medicine
Ian Kim is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a MFA in New Media and a MS Minor in Kinesiology focusing on health informatics and exercise psychology. His research has focused on modeling associations between emotion, motivation…
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