Department of Geography

2017 News Archive

International Center of Excellence (ICoE) on Big Earth Data for Coastal Zone and Disasters to be established

Professors Cuizhen Wang and Susan Cutter of the Department of Geography to head new center

Huan Ning wins the USGIF/NVIDIA GPU essay challenge

Geography graduate student Huan Ning will receive two NVIDIA Titan XP GPUs

Holly Smith awarded Bilinksi Fellowship

Ph.D. student in geography awarded grant from the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship Program to support her research

Dr. April Hiscox awarded NSF/NCAR grant

A new experiment to study Earth's stable boundary layers

USC geographers in the news

Local and national media turn to USC faculty members for analysis of the August 2017 solar eclipse and recent weather events

Geography faculty and research staff receive ASPIRE grants for 2017-2018

The Office of the Vice President for Research announced funding decisions for the 2017 ASPIRE I, II and III internal research competitions, and USC Geographers were prominent among the winners

Geography undergraduates recognized at USC Awards Day program

As the 2016-2017 academic year winds down, a number of Geography undergraduates were recognized at the university's Awards Day program on April 20, 2017

Graduate student Ellie Davis receives prestigious fellowship

The award supports research on agricultural soil salinization on the North Carolina coast

Dr. Jessica Barnes wins Howard Foundation fellowship

The fellowship provides Dr. Barnes with the opportunity to develop her book project on wheat and bread in Egypt

Graduate student Alice Arnold wins award at AAG

The 2017 Student Field Research Award will support fieldwork on mobility in Palestine

Smith and Lu named recipients of SPARC Graduate Research Grants

Two USC Geography Ph.D students recognized with grants from the Office of the Vice-President for Research

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