If you are a full or part-time undergraduate, graduate, and first year post-doctoral student attending accredited colleges and universities anywhere in the world AND working on a research paper in the history of cartography, then you might want to enter your work in the Ristow Prize Competition.  The winner will receive a $1000 cash prize and publication in the The Portolan, Journal of the Washington Map Society.  The deadline is June 1, 2014.