CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 23, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2000
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What's News?

• Nation's First Korean American Studies Academic Chair Established at UCLA
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center will house the nation's first academic chair in Korean American Studies.
• Wen Ho Lee: A personl View of 150 years of Injustice
  Little did I know several years ago when I was working with a student named Alberta Lee, a promising writer and student at UCLA, that I would be writing about her father, Wen Ho Lee, today.
• New Study Examines Cancer Screening Rate for Asian & Pacific Islander Women
  Cancer ansk the nuber one cause of death among Asian American and Pacific Islander (API) women, yeat a range of health care access barriers have left them with the lowest screening and early detection rates for breast and cervical cancer of all ethnic groups, a UCLA study shows.
• Profs. Chu and Yu Gain Graints to Study Asians in the Americas
  UCLA Professor Clara Chu of Information Studies and Henry Yu of History - both members of the Asian American Studies Center Faculty Advisory Committee - have received two grants to enhance the work they are doing with the Asian in the Americas Working Group at UCLA
• Historians Probe "Future of History" at Conference
  The Asian American Studies Center and Amerasia Journal along with other Southern California AAS programs held a November 4 conference, "The Future of Asian American History: A Dialogue on learning and Teaching Asian American History for the 21st Century."
• UCLA's Daily Bruin Highlights Stellar AASC Milestone
  The UCLA Daily Bruin newspaper highlighted accomplishments of the Asian American Studies Center in a lenghy aritcal appearing December 1, 2000.
• Laura Kuo Named IAC Postdoctoral Fellow for 2000-01
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center announced that Dr. Laura J. Kuo, who received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Snta Cruz, has been selected to be its IAC Postdoctoral Fellow in Aisan American Studies for 2000-2001.
• UCLA Graduate Students Receive IAC Grant to Support Research
  Dennis Arguelles, Assistant Director of the Asian American Studies Center, announced the following IAC research grants for UCLA graduate students for 2000-2001.
• Los Angeles Times Names Prof. Rssel Leon's Book Among Best Works of Fiction
  The Los Angeles Times recently named Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories by UCLA Professor Russell c. Leong of English and Asian American Studies as one of the best works of fiction for 2000.
• UCLA English Department Appoints Professor Leong to Faculty Post
  UCLA's English Department recently appointed scholar and writer Russell C. Leong as Adjunct Full Professor.
• Amerasia Journal Publishes Three Thought Provoking Issues to mark New Millennium
  To mark the new millennium, Amerasia Journal has published the three new issues that expand the boundaries of Asian American Studies.
• UCLA's Asian Pacific Coalition Celebrates 25 Years of Advocacy and Empowerment
  UCLA's undergraduate Asian Pacific Coalition is celebrating its 25th year anniversary during the 2000-2001 school year.
• New book by Professor Henry Yu Explores Race in American
  What is the difference between an "Oriental" and an "Asian American?"
• Filmaker Curtis Choy Donates Archive of Fall of the I-Hotel to Asian American Studies Center
  Curtis Choy recently added to his donation of three dozen boxes of outakes, editing notes, , audiotapes, scripts, and workprints to the UCLA Asian American Studies Center a 16mm print of Fall of the I-Hotel, his pioneering 1983 documentary film.
• A Former Japanese American Journalist Looks Back on Growing up as a Nisei
  When Professor Yuji Ichioka invited me to this luncheon honoring Professor David Yoo, I was delighted.
• UCLA Asian American Studies Center Designated as Census Information Center
  The U.S. Census bureau has officially designated the UCLA Asian American Studies Center as one of the 60 new national Census Information Centers (CICs).

More News...

• Irene Suico Soriano Receives Prestigious PEN Writing Award
• Asian American Studies Center's Faculy Advisory Committee
• Professor James Lubben Receives major Geriatric Social Work Grant
• Prof. Valerie Matsumoto Appointed IDP Vice Chair
• Prof. Mitchell chang Named Amerasia's book Review Editor
• Chronicle of Higher Education Highlights Amerasia Journal Issue on Historians
• Amerasia Journal Issues for 2000
• Asoam A,erocam Studies Center Scholarship/Endoments
• Tad Nakamura Honored by National Society of Collegiate Scholars
• Seven New M.A. Theses in Asian American Studies Completed
• UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition 2000-20001 Staff
• Pacific ties Looks at Impact of World Issues on Students
• A Magazine Recognizes Ingrid Gonzales for Campus Activism
• Japan National TV Presents Cathy Castor
• AAS Graduate Student Jamie Ardena Featured in Oriental Whatever
• 9 Center Faculty Gain Tenure at UCLA
• Historic WW II Draft Resisters Symposium to Be Held June 21-23
• Lodestone Theatre Ensemble Presents New Play by Judy Soo Hoo
• UCLA Alumnus Dawn Mabalon Helps Win Recognition for Stockton's Historic Little Manila
• The new Videos on Japanese American WW II Camp Life Now Available

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