USC Dornsife News

Coinciding with its 20th anniversary, the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture has received three fabulous “birthday presents” — major grants totaling more than $5 million.

Students from USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) launch an aerial camera attached to a helium-filled weather balloon to photograph the USC University Park campus and raise awareness about the institute’s new undergraduate degree in GeoDesign.

A new interdisciplinary undergraduate degree in GeoDesign offered through USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute is the first of its kind in the world.

In a course taught by Edward Pultar of USC Dornsife's Spatial Sciences Institute, students learn to develop apps that help solve real-world problems.

High school students may learn and live like USC students during the summer while earning college credit. Application deadline for Summer 2013 is May 8 for domestic students and April 1 for international students.

Many dismiss the structure of Los Angeles as urban sprawl. But Samuel Krueger, a graduate of the GIST master’s program in USC Dornsife, disproves this notion by showing L.A.’s distinctive heart. His research has earned him awards from two renowned academic organizations.

Catalina Island serves as a training ground for students from USC Dornsife's online graduate degree programs in geographic information science and technology.

USC Spatial Sciences Institute hosts a discussion by Esri Founder and President Jack Dangermond.

USC College Ph.D. student Maureen McCarthy spends three months in Uganda researching isolated chimpanzees facing extinction.