Spring 2014 Events
- Please note that on May 22, 2014, Thursday 4 to 5:30 pm in the Reseda Room of the USU, we will have our AAS Graduation Reception before the College of Humanities Commencement Ceremony which begins at 6 pm in the Oviatt Lawn.
- Please save the date May 6, Tuesday, 4 to 6:30 pm in the Nobbs Auditorium (Sequoia Hall Room 104) for an Activists Panel to celebrate the Asian Pacific Heritage month!
- Please save the date April 29, Tuesday, 2:30 to 4 pm. We are having a dedication ceremony of renaming the Asian House to "The Glenn Omatsu Asian American Studies House."
- Please save the date April 24, Thursday, from 5 to 8:00 pm in the Grand Salon, USU, where AAS will hold its annual Distinguished Lecturer and Student Awards Night (.pdf).
- Some of our students and alumni have been accepted to participate at the Association of Asian American Studies Conference's roundtables. We are flying up to the Bay Area on Wednesday for the roundtables on Thursday and Friday mornings. While up in the area, we plan to visit Berkeley and San Francisco State. We plan to head back home on Saturday. That's April 16 to 19, 2014.
- AAS students, please take a look at our student award application. The deadline is extended to Friday 12 pm, March 21, 2014.
- We are happy to announce that our AAS Newsletter Issue #5 (.pdf) is ready for viewing.
- AAS only has a little bit of funding left for our tutorial/mentoring program (.pdf) this Spring 2014 Semester. We have hired student tutors/mentors along with Prof. Turnmeyer to provide help on writing and learning strategies. The program will resume in Week 3 of Spring Semester.
- We have a new professor joining us with a joint appointment in Gender and Women's Studies. Dr. Khanum Shaikh will be teaching our AAS 201 courses this year. We look forward to her offering a Muslim American Experience course next Spring 2015!
- We are proud to announce that Dr. Tracy Buenavista has just received tenure! She now serves as Associate Professor with tenure in our Department!
Fall 2013 Events
- We had a talk by Dr. Arshad I. Ali on "CITIZEN SUSPECT: Muslim Youth, State Surveillance, and Responsive Research Methodologies (.pdf)" on September 24, 2013, Tuesday, from 4 to 6 PM in the Whitsett Room (Sierra Hall 451)
- AAS Welcome Back BBQ and New Students Orientation, Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 11 am to 1:30 pm @ the Asian House. We had about 72 students showing up.
- We are happy to announce that our AAS Newsletter Issue #5 (.pdf) is ready for viewing.
- AAS just got funding to start a tutorial program for our students taking AAS classes. We have hired 3 student tutors along with Prof. Turnmeyer to provide help on writing and learning strategies.
- AAS had a faculty retreat on Thursday, August 22nd, 11:30 am to 5 pm, and a departmental meeting on Friday, August 23rd, 10 am to 2:30 pm.
- AAS had a student-faculty retreat on Wednesday, August 21st, 9 am to 5 pm. Prof. Clem Lai, Prof. Tracy Buenavista and alumni helped make it a successful first!
- We have a new professor joining us with a joint appointment in Gender and Women's Studies. Dr. Khanum Shaikh will be teaching our AAS 201 courses this year. We look forward to her offering a Muslim American Experience course in Spring 2015!
- We are proud to announce that Dr. Tracy Buenavista has just received tenure! She now serves as Associate Professor with tenure in our Department!
