Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Are you a CUNY undergraduate student ready to make a difference in Asian American communities? The AAARI Innovators Fellowship is your opportunity to gain cutting-edge technology skills, develop leadership abilities, and create meaningful change. Join a dynamic cohort of fellows in a six-month journey of growth, innovation, and impact.
The CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest is funded by an endowment gift of $100,000 to the City University of New York by Dr. K. York Chynn and his wife Noelle Chynn. This annual award is intended to promote and stimulate thinking by college students at CUNY about the topic of ethics, morality, and virtuous behavior in their lives.
The Scholarship awards $1,000 to an individual qualified undergraduate student that is currently enrolled at any of the twenty-one colleges within CUNY, Asian or non-Asian, who has demonstrated creativity in the communication of the concerns of the Asian American community in areas such as health, education, culture, media or advocacy/activism.
The Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s CUNY Faculty Research Support Program is designed to support CUNY faculty to conduct research that seeks to answer critical questions about Asian American and Asian diasporic communities.
Betty Lee Sung, co-founder of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), Professor Emerita, City College of New York, and recipient of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award, has established an endowment of $100,000 at the City University of New York to create a research fund under the auspices of AAARI, on Asian American topics. The fund is intended to support the research by providing funds for a research assistant, copywriter, research travel, acquisition or access to research material and similar costs so that the researcher can complete the project.
The Betty Lee Sung Memorial Fund recently awarded a grant, through AAARI, to Yu Wang, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to conduct research on “Betty Lee Sung’s Chinese Activities at the Voice of America.”