Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
As a musical form without the distraction of a melody but a well-defined beat, rap offers an opportunity to explore the rhythmic and musical aspects of a language. An interesting case study is rap in Japanese, which has completely different syntax, vocabulary, accent patterns, and phonemes from English. Several pioneers of Japanese rap initially thought … Read more
Research on Asian origin children and adolescents in the U.S. has focused predominantly on their educational achievement. This emphasis, however, ignores not only the diversity of Asian students’ educational experiences but also their psychological and social well-being. A small but growing body of research suggests that while Asian American students may be doing well in … Read more
Musical performance anxiety represents a relatively unexamined but seriously debilitating problem that functionally impairs large numbers of musicians. In the past two decades, there has been considerable interest in meditation as an approach to reduce emotional distress among a large community of clinicians and empirical psychologists. Meditation research is a young but vigorous field. More … Read more
Since the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW), Information Retrieval (or IR, of which design of search algorithms and search engines is a major topic) has gained attention and popularity. One major impact of the WWW is that users have fundamentally changed their previous information seeking expectations and behavior: from “going to a library”, … Read more
Dr. Brenda Malone, CUNY Vice Chancellor for Faculty Relations, and the Hon. Trustee Wellington Z. Chen, member of the CUNY Board of Trustees will join members of the AAARI board to welcome new Asian faculty and staff to the CUNY family. Later in the evening, Trustee Chen will also dialog with those present about the … Read more
Professor Beveridge will present an analysis of the varieties of Asian Americans and other groups in New York Metropolitan area and the nation. He will examine their residential patterns, their economic, educational and other achievement and demonstrate how users may examine the demographic and other trends in their own areas or any area at all … Read more