The Mapping Historical NewYork Digital atlas has won two prizes from the annual competition of the the Cartographic and Geographic Information Society of the Smithsonian institution: best in digital/ interactive map and tied for Best in Show. Winners include Project faculty Gergely Baics (Barnard), Rebecca Kobrin and Mae Ngai (History), Laura Kurgan and Leah Meisterlin (GSAPP), project staff Wright Kennedy and Dan Miller, and Stamen Design.

CSER’s Co-Director Mae Ngai’s Wins Bancroft Prize – considered one of the most prestigious in the field of American history. Her book “The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics,” published by W.W. Norton, was praised by the jury as “an extraordinary book” that “brilliantly shows us how much of the white Anglo-American world came to view the Chinese as a racially unassimilable and threatening people.

“If the Supreme Court decides to end affirmative action … [t]he result will be institutions that are less representative, less intellectually stimulating, and less equipped to serve an increasingly diverse America.”

A new Editor’s Blog post on Science by Jennifer Lee.