Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York is the recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2025 Moisseiff Award. The honor is for his paper “Reliability-Based Framework for Structural Robustness Evaluation of Bridges,” published in the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, April 2024.
The Representing and Empowering Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Community History (REACH) Coalition and its member organizations are excited to announce the reintroduction of legislation seeking to establish a curriculum uplifting AANHPI history and civic impact in the New York State Legislature. Senate Bill 3334 and its companion Assembly Bill 4638, sponsored … Read more
LaGuardia Community College/CUNY student Sandy Kelley reflects on her experience celebrating Chinese New Year.
It has been a busy start to 2025 for Brooklyn College/CUNY Assistant Professor of Theater Patrick Sabongui, who has also been the head of the college’s B.F.A. Acting Program since September 2020. Sabongui is an accomplished actor, director, and producer who has acted in The Flash (CW), Homeland (Showtime), Shameless (Showtime), 300 (WB), and more … Read more
Two Hunter alumni, Devashish “Dave” Basnet ’22 and Alexis Fisher ’21, have been chosen for the John Robert Lewis Scholars & Fellows 2025-2026 Fellowship that furthers the work of the late civil-rights hero, Congressman John R. Lewis.
Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt, a trailblazing figure in the legal community and the first Asian American woman judge in New York State, passed away on Jan. 27 at the age of 76.