Three CUNY Community College Students Earn Highly Competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
Recipients Are Among 60 Nationwide Who Will Receive Up to $55,000 Annually Toward Bachelor’s Degrees
Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Recipients Are Among 60 Nationwide Who Will Receive Up to $55,000 Annually Toward Bachelor’s Degrees
Many groups say they’re cautiously optimistic that they can carry their momentum from the past few years into the post-pandemic era.
Economic and structural inequality, racial scapegoating, and anti-Asian xenophobia all played a role in violence against Asian Americans, then, and continue unabated to today in 2021. Against the backdrop of the continuing global Covid-19 crisis and anti-Asian violence and hate in the United States, we present to you the reader some signals of hope and reclamation on the local and national level: Asian Americans recognizing and reclaiming their place in the larger civil society despite immense institutional and ideological barriers.
“Make Asian American History Visible” is available to view on the college library’s first floor.
City College of New York Computer engineer and scientist Samah M. Saeed is the co-recipient of a $4.6 million U.S. Department of Energy [DoE] grant to advance quantum computing. The funding is for her project, “Toward Efficient Quantum Algorithm Execution on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Hardware.”
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