Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Sammy Lee, the son of Korean immigrants, made history by becoming the first Asian American athlete to win a gold medal for the U.S. in the Olympics. Lee achieved this distinction by winning the gold medal in the 10-meter platform diving event at the 1948 London Olympics, a title he successfully defended at the 1952 … Read more
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Samoan athlete Alex Rose has qualified for the discus final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
For the first time in eight years, student enrollment in New York City’s public schools didn’t go down year over year.
The Asian American Journalists Association is proud to announce our revised Style Guide. The guide will be unveiled during AAJA’s national convention in Austin, Texas on Thursday, August 8, 2024. It is an essential resource for anyone writing about the diverse and often misportrayed Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
At 31, he and a colleague won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that subatomic particles, contrary to what scientists thought, are not always symmetrical.