Yale University Presents Highest Honor to UCLA Professor Don Nakanishi

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UCLA AAS Center Co-Founder Morgan Chu Receives UCLA Medal

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Amerasia Journal: Call for Abstracts "Transoceanic Flows: Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire" Publication Date Spring 2011

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UCLA Asian American Studies Center Gift Giving

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Announcing the EthnoCommunications Winter Quarter Course

UCLA AASC EthnoCommunications student film selected for the ID Film Festival

• UCLA's Global Professor Min Zhou Appointed to Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very proud to announce that UCLA Professor Min Zhou, an internationally renowned and influential scholar of Sociology and Asian American Studies, is the inaugural appointee of the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S./China Relations and Communications at UCLA.

• Yale University Presents Highest Honor to UCLA Professor Don Nakanishi
  New Haven, CT: Yale University announced that it will present the prestigious Yale Medal to UCLA Professor Don T. Nakanishi of Los Angeles, CA on November 14, 2008 at the university.

• UCLA Asian American Studies Center Celebrating 40 Years: Special Tribute to Don T. Nakanishi
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center invites you to join us on Saturday, May 16, 2009 from 4-7pm for an outdoor reception and program as we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. We will also honor Director and Professor Don T. Nakanishi's retirement after 19 years of distinguished leadership and service. 

• Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Will Retire
  UCLA Graduate Division: It is with mixed emotions that I inform you that after more than 18 years of distinguished leadership of the Asian American Studies Center (AASC), Professor Don T. Nakanishi will conclude his service as director, effective July 1, 2009. After a 35-year career at UCLA, Don will retire in September 2009 to begin work for the advancement of East Los Angeles, where he was born and raised, while continuing to write and to be engaged in political and educational issues.

• UCLA AAS Center Co-Founder Morgan Chu Receives UCLA Medal
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very pleased to announce that renowned trial attorney Morgan Chu has been selected to receive the UCLA Medal, which is "the highest accolade for exceptional achievement the University of California, Los Angeles may bestow upon an individual . . . as evidence of genuine eminent distinction."

• New Endowment for Chinese American Studies Established at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very pleased to announce that Gilbert Hom of Alhambra, California, who attended UCLA in the late 1960s and is active in the Chinese American community of Los Angeles, has generously provided a major lead gift to the Center to establish the Chinese American Studies Endowment Fund.

• 3 New Professors Join UCLA Asian American Studies Center Faculty Advisory Committe
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very pleased to announce the appointment of three new professors at UCLA, who have joined the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Asian American Studies Center. Their teaching, research, and professional activities are in the areas of immigration and citizenship law, psychological effects of prejudice and discrimination, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in health and diet.

• Donors Fund UCLA Chair on Japanese American Internment
  A reception celebrates the nation's first academic chair dedicated to the topic

• Lane Hirabayashi named as UCLA's first George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Department are very proud to announce that Professor Lane Ryo Hirabayashi has been appointed as the first George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community.

• UCLA Professor Yuji Ichioka, the Creator of Asian America

• UCLA' s Asian American Studies Center Establishes Nation's First Endowed Chair Focusing on Japanese American Internment. Listen to the KQED radio program (click here - requires Real Player).