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Jacqueline Sosa

Jacqueline Sosa - I am Panamanian, and live in Panama City, Panama. I wanted to find an internship I could apply what I had been learning in my GeoDesign courses in Panama. I decided that the Panama Canal would be an ideal place because stakeholders need maps and deal with large sets of data. So,…
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Austin Chow

Austin Chow - I am currently on track to graduate with a B.S. in GeoDesign in May 2019 and a M.S. in Planning in May 2020. During my undergraduate years, I have explored the potential uses of GIS and utilized my GeoDesign background while interning at a landscape architecture firm and a real estate company.…
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Richard Windisch

Richard Windisch - As part of a research university, the USC Spatial Sciences Institute is incredibly helpful in finding opportunities for students who want to pursue research. My first research experience was the summer after sophomore year through a USC Dornsife Problems Without Passports (PWP) course offered for GeoDesign students where we travel to Amsterdam and…
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Travis Longcore on the LA River, LA trees and CA wildfires

Dr. Travis Longcore, assistant professor of Architecture, Biological Sciences, and Spatial Sciences, has been featured in: the September 25, 2018 article “Frogtown Without Frogs: The Changing Ecology of the Bowtie Parcel and the L.A. River” in KCET Artbound with his analysis of the historical ecology of the Los Angeles River; the Los Angeles Magazine November…
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