Month: September 2021

The donations come from 14 Asian American alumni leaders who graduated from the university between 1990 and 2003. The money will support new professorships, graduate fellowships and academic research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Asian American studies program. It will also attract respected scholars who will foment collaboration and innovation, according to FAS.

Three new faculty members are joining the Asian American Studies program next year, reigniting hope for the future of the small program after a longtime struggle between the University, students, and faculty to marshal support for ASAM.

In 1887, the California city labeled Chinatown as a “public nuisance” and planned to replace it with a city hall. But arsonists burned it down first.

This year’s awardees are taking on projects across the STEM fields, from creating quantum computing networks to modeling oil spills and understanding the neuroscience of safety.

Dubbed CCNY + AFOSR to acknowledge the presence of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Erik Blasch as an advisor, the team comprised graduate student Bilal Abdulrahman; and undergraduates Billy Davila, Shuoxin Liu, Ling Fang and Jed Magracia. It finished behind second place University of Wisconsin Madison and the winners, a combined University of British Columbia … Read more

Robyn Rodriguez, professor of Asian American Studies at the university and founding director of its Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, the only center for Filipino studies in the University of California system, created a self-paced, 10-hour course about the Asian American experience. It will go live on Friday with open enrollment ongoing.