Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI As part of the Statewide Community Regrants program funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Arts Grants for Queens program will fund artists and arts organizations based in Queens to produce arts and culture projects to be presented in the borough in order to enrich and enliven the community.
Open to immigrant students ages 16–28 residing in New York or New Jersey with a demonstrated track record of volunteerism and civic engagement. Applicants of all backgrounds are welcome to apply, regardless of status.
Funding uncertainty and heightened scrutiny of China are some of the factors prompting thousands of Chinese researchers to leave the U.S.
Twenty-five years after Sikh businessman Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered, his family and members of the community who knew him say more needs to be done to change people’s misconceptions about religions from other parts of the world, especially the Middle East and South Asian countries.
A citywide study led by CUNY SPH doctoral graduate Thinh Toan Vu, city research scientist at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, finds that mental health help-seeking among NYC adults differs significantly depending on the combination of a person’s social identities—including race and ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and immigration-related characteristics—rather than any single factor alone. … Read more
“Islamophobia after 9/11 became a kind of institutionalized force, primarily through different forms of government repression,” said Moustafa Bayoumi, a Brooklyn College professor who has written about Muslim political organizing in New York City. “The younger generation especially decided that they had to meet those challenges head-on, and they really began organizing collectively under the … Read more