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The Spatial Sciences Institute is now accepting applications for undergraduate student researchers to work with SSI faculty on their funded undergrad research projects for the 2019 - 2020 academic year. Project descriptions, the application requirements and the application process are described in this memo. Please email your complete application materials to Susan Kamei, Spatial Sciences…

Representatives of the USC Spatial Sciences figured prominently in the 2019 Symposium of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS Symposium) that was held June 10 - 13 in Washington, DC. On behalf of the UCGIS, its Executive Director Diana Sinton presented SSI's John P. Wilson, founding director and professor, with the UCGIS 2019…

Not long after she began her studies in the master’s program in Geography at San Diego State University, Shea Ellen Gilliam finally embraced her identity as a transgender woman. As she began her medical transition, she concurrently structured her master’s thesis to explore integration of transgender athletes into the cis-centric sporting spaces of women’s roller…

Dr. Katsuhiko Oda, assistant professor (teaching) with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute and Dr. Thomas Herman of the California Geographic Alliance announce that registration is now open for a three-day workshop for K-12 school teachers on teaching with geospatial tech. In this workshop, teachers will learn how geographic knowledge, skills and reasoning can be enhanced…