Non-AAARI News

In honor of October as Filipino American History Month, the Asian Journal spoke to several Fil-Ams working across the administration — from the Executive Branch to various agencies that keep the country running.

Congresswoman Grace Meng on Monday, Oct. 3, toured Queens College’s Wastewater Epidemiology Training Laboratory (WETLAB), a project that she made possible with $1,850,000 in federal funding to develop strategies to detect dangerous pathogens — such as COVID-19, influenza, polio and monkeypox — in wastewater. 

Report by advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate links a rise in inflammatory language to an increase in hate crimes against Asian-Americans

Scholars and curators are beginning to focus on long-overlooked Asian American artists, acknowledging their importance in the narrative of American art.

Asian Americans have been the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States over roughly the past two decades, but their growth has leveled off somewhat since 2018. Their number has grown by 9%, or just about a million eligible voters, in the past four years – greater than the 3% growth rate of … Read more

Sonja Kostich, a cultural administrator and dancer, will lead the group as it works to expand its audience amid the pandemic.