Newsbriefs

Two more Graduate Center faculty have assumed leadership posts with academic associations. Sociology Professor and Executive Officer Philip Kasinitz was chosen as President-Elect of the Eastern Sociological Society, and will become President in February 2006. Associate Professor Juan Battle was chosen as President-Elect of the Association of Black Sociologists in August, and will assume the presidency in August 2006.

Professor of Mathematics Jay S. Rosen was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in August at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Minneapolis. Rosen received the award for his detailed study of the sample path properties of Brownian motion, random walks, stable processes and Markov processes in general. He is one of fifteen IMS members selected for Fellowship in 2005, which fosters the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability worldwide.

The Graduate Center website History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web is among 25 recipients of a "Best of Reference" citation from the New York Public library. The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) was awarded the citation at the Library's Donnell Library Center on April 29. A committee of librarians selects reference books and websites for the citation each year, based on the materials' usefulness in local branch reference work. The History Matters website is co-produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Previously, the September 11 Digital Archive, produced by ASHP/CML and the Center for History and New Media, was cited in 2004's Best of Reference.

The Lost Museum, an ASHP/CML-produced online recreation of P.T. Barnum's mid-19th century American Museum, won the Platinum Award for Interactive-Educational New Media at the 38th annual WorldFest Film Festival held in Houston during April. Also in April, the Lost Museum website received a Horizon Interactive Awards Honorable Mention for excellence in interactive media production.

The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society has releasedPathways for Change: Philanthropy Among African American, Asian American, and Latino Donors in the New York Metropolitan Region by Eugene Miller and Felinda Mottino. The study presents the findings of the Center's Donor Research Project, which the study's co-authors co-directed. Based on 166 interviews with donors of color, the authors identified philanthropic motivations and intent; their findings suggest philanthropic trends that may help nonprofit organizations better understand donors. The volume was made possible through funding from The Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and New Ventures in Philanthropy: Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers.

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