Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Sanjoy Banerjee, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at The City College of New York, and Director of the City University of New York (CUNY) Energy Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors’ (NAI) Class of 2023 Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
The City University of New York announces the appointment of highly accomplished leaders with long ties to CUNY to serve as interim presidents of two of its colleges. Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez named Suri Duitch to lead Kingsborough Community College, filling a vacancy that opened when President Claudia V. Schrader was appointed interim president … Read more
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The prestigious grant will support a study of what Asia and Asianness mean today.
While 2023 witnessed a wave of Asian Americans appointed to prominent academic leadership positions — including Bobbie Kabuto as dean of Queens College’s School of Education and Kellee Tsai as dean of Northeastern University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities — experts caution that more work is needed to ensure true representation in the field.