2012 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

Date: Friday, May 25, 2012 | Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: CUNY Graduate Center – Martin E. Segal Theatre 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street), Manhattan https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaaricuny/sets/72157633926985659/ 2012 Winners & Runner-ups Fiction Film Winner: Rendezvous Point – Raymond Guarnieri (City College) A Korean and US soldier bond while ambushed in the woods during a … Read more

CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship 2012 Recipient

2012 Recipient Sun Mei Liu (Brooklyn College) Project: Filling The Gaps of Knowledge: Assessing the Health Status of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Population Asian Americans are the most rapidly growing minority population in the United States. While Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders only make up about 5% of the U.S. population, that … Read more

CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest Fall 2011

Funded by the Chynn Family Foundation, the goal of the CUNY Ethics & Morality Essay Contest is to stimulate young people to ponder the topic of morality, and to broadcast the best essays, in an attempt to promote the teaching of morality in American education.

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2011-2012 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor

Paul Ong is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. In Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, Prof. Ong served as the City University of New York’s Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Russell C. Leong is the founding editor of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s CUNY FORUM publication, and previously served as the CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at Hunter College/CUNY.

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2011 Asian American Film Festival

Date: Friday, May 20, 2011 | Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: CUNY Graduate Center – Martin E. Segal Theatre 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street), Manhattan https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaaricuny/sets/72157633927237633/ 2011 Winners & Runner-ups Fiction Film Winner: Home – Seimi Kim (Brooklyn College) Runner-up: Club Fizz – Yosuke Hosoi (City College) Documentary Film Winner: Teaching Outside the … Read more

CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship 2011 Recipient

2011 Recipient Sahar Khan (City College of New York) Project – Islamic Studies Program The idea to start an Islamic Studies Program began in 2010 with student petitions, the creation of a proposal, and meetings with faculty, students and administration at City College of New York. Due to the growth of City College’s student population … Read more