2026 CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship
The Tam Scholarship is awarded annually to a qualified CUNY undergraduate student (Asian or non-Asian) who demonstrates creativity in raising awareness about issues facing the Asian American community.
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2025 CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship Recipient
For their project, Jiale Lin, a sophomore at LaGuardia Community College, addresses a critical but often overlooked public health crisis: chronic noise pollution in New York City’s Asian American community hubs.
Artist Talk with Leekyung Kang: Entombed in Static
Leekyung Kang, an inaugural artist-in-residence at the Queens College School of Arts (Fall 2024), will present on her recent work is inspired by Buddhist cosmology’s cyclical nature, creating a series of paintings, print, and installation that interrogate the formal aspects of what is architecturally defined as a form of chamber.
CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1
Economic and structural inequality, racial scapegoating, and anti-Asian xenophobia all played a role in violence against Asian Americans, then, and continue unabated to today in 2021. Against the backdrop of the continuing global Covid-19 crisis and anti-Asian violence and hate in the United States, we present to you the reader some signals of hope and reclamation on the local and national level: Asian Americans recognizing and reclaiming their place in the larger civil society despite immense institutional and ideological barriers.
2024 CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship Recipient
Cynthia Leung, a recent graduate in American Studies from Brooklyn College, explored the complex relationship between Asian American communities and public safety, particularly focusing on the experiences and perspectives of Chinese Americans regarding the police and criminal justice system.
Enroll in SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (Spring 2025 Course)
Are you interested in enrolling in the SUNY/CUNY SEAC’s spring-semester course, Southeast Asian identities in popular culture and literature? The course is open to all students in CUNY and SUNY (grad and undergrad, regardless of discipline)! Your co-professors will be EK Tan (Stony Brook University), Martina Nguyen (Baruch College/CUNY), and Lauren Meeker (SUNY New Paltz).