Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Indian American New York Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar has introduced a new bill in the State Assembly – Bill #A07062 – which establishes Diwali as a school holiday in New York. The holiday would be observed in school districts with significant populations that celebrate the festival.
Serena Wang (Ph.D. ’21, Music) says that her dissertation, New Chinese Music in New York City: From Revival to Musical Transnationalism, explores two generations of Chinese composers in New York City whose “training in Western music here provides them with tools that they can apply in their own ways.” Wang explains, “While they are influenced … Read more
Doctoral candidate Khánh Lê (Urban Education) says that his dissertation, Cùng với nhau chung tay: A Collaborative project with Vietnamese youth, for which he recently received a Graduate Center dissertation fellowship, is based on his lived experience. He was born in Vietnam, spent time in a refugee camp in Thailand, and arrived in Philadelphia with … Read more
A Korean-American professor discusses the most gratifying research of his career, into Riverside’s Pachappa Camp.
In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, NASA recognizes astronauts of the AAPI community who have flown to the International Space Station and contributed to its assembly, operations, and research activities. But the first among the community came decades before long-duration missions to the station were possible.
Associate Professor Prithi Kanakamedala of BCC’s Department of History has become the College’s first faculty member to be awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Community College Faculty Fellowship.