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Yep, driving home does take longer than driving to work in L.A.

Your evening commute in Los Angeles is probably a lot longer than your morning drive, even though it’s essentially the same trip in reverse. Now research from USC bears that out. Crosstown, a research project involving the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC Dornsife College…
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Samantha Levi

Samantha Levi - As a kid, the only thing I loved more than reading fantasy novels was drawing maps of the fictional settings that my favorite characters lived in. Using my grandma’s gigantic book of Chicago maps as inspiration, I sketched out Narnia, Hogwarts, and countless other imaginary places. I understood from a young age…
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Austin Chow

Austin Chow - Growing up in the hinterlands of Los Angeles has been straight and utterly mundane. Did I want to become a doctor based on my parents’ values and desires? Yes, maybe. Was that pipe dream going to come true? No. Little did I know at the time, my passion was found elsewhere, followed…
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USC Spatial’s Rich Windisch receives ASPRS scholarship

The Pacific Southwest Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) has announced that Richard Windisch is one of its scholarship recipients for 2018. Rich graduated in May 2018 with a B.S. in GeoDesign with a host of honors: recipient of the Order of Troy for academic excellence while devoting extensive time…
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