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Douglas Fleming receives General Education Graduate Assistant Award

On May 6, 2019, Dr. Richard Fliegel, Director of General Education and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Art and Sciences presented the 2019 General Education Graduate Assistant Award to Douglas Fleming, a doctoral candidate in the Spatial Sciences Institute Population, Health and Place Ph.D. Program. At the ceremony…
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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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