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Leo Ngo

Leo Ngo
Maps were my first fascination, dating all the way to elementary school where I would stare at maps of my area and list off streets before my mom got to them. When I got my first car, I would wander throughout the Pacific Northwest, trying to truly understand the flavor each city had. When I…
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Yao-Yi Chiang receives NEH grant

Today the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced funding for a collaborative research and development project by Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute with Deborah Holmes-Wong of the USC Digital Library entitled “Unlocking Maps: Automatic and Streamlined Metadata Creation for Digital Collections.” With this NEH grant funding, Chiang, an assistant professor…
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Serphina Wang

People often say that students with a humanities major like me lack “hard skills” in terms of not having a concrete knowledge on science. So when l searched for potential minors, I aimed to look for skill-based minors that can complement my International Relations Global Business (IRGB) background. This led me to discover Human Security…
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Nathan Novak Wins UNIGIS Prize

The UNIGIS International Association has announced it has named Nathan Novak runner-up in its 2016 Academic Excellence Prize competition for his thesis work conducted at the University of Southern California Spatial Sciences Institute’s M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) graduate program. An independent review board analyzed master theses nominated by UIA centers, which…
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