2025 AAAS Conference – Contingent Faculty Registration Request
The Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) has set aside funding to cover registration costs for 58 contingent faculty members. This will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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Search for Editor (Journal of Asian American Studies)
Qualifications include being a tenured associate or full professor in any humanities or social science disciplinary or interdisciplinary field with a major research interest in Asian American Studies; a distinguished record of publications; and a current member of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
2025-2026 APIA Scholarship
Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholars offers a range of scholarships to support students who identify as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI). The 2025-2026 APIA Scholarship application is now open until January 15, 2025.
LaGuardia Community College Biology Major Tabia Tarannum Wins Competitive Kaplan Leadership Fellowship
LaGuardia Community College/CUNY biology major Tabia Tarannum, 19, has been selected as a 2024 Kaplan Leadership Fellow. Tabia, a first-generation college student who hails from Bangladesh, plans to graduate from LaGuardia in the spring of 2025 and, with Kaplan’s financial support, aims to transfer to a prestigious institution, e.g., Stanford or Harvard, to pursue a … Read more
Maternal Stress and Epigenetics: Healthier Generations Begin in Utero
Dr. Yoko Nomura, a professor and researcher at The City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College and the Graduate Center, is working to change this through her groundbreaking research on maternal stress and fetal development in the field of epigenetics—the study of gene expression changes that don’t alter the DNA itself.
CCNY discovery creates new possibilities for water-responsive materials
The experts, including chemical engineers Raymond Tu and Xi Chen, mechanical engineer Honghui Yu, and postdoctoral associate Darjan Podbevsek (power and process engineering), determined how water interacts with biomaterials at the molecular level to yield high energy density water responsiveness.