Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
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
Finding the most effective ways to teach and learn Chinese characters is a challenge faced by beginning-level instructors and students. Training to become fluent in character recognition is the first step students must take if they want to read Chinese texts and to achieve an advanced level of literacy in Chinese. To help students overcome … Read more
The prosecutor is the central figure in the administration of criminal justice. As the leader of law enforcement in the community, the prosecutor has the obligation to participate actively in marshalling society’s resources against the threat of crime. But the basic duty of the prosecutor is to seek justice, not merely to convict. It is … Read more