Words by Malina Tran // Photos by Claudia Li After 19 years under Don Nakanishi’s leadership, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center bids farewell to its longest-term Director and Professor, who will receive Emeriti recognition. On Saturday, May 16 the 40th anniversary celebration of “the Center” was a tribute to Don Nakanishi. Nakanishi plans to…
DetailsIn honor of May, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Sierra Club’s Scrapbook blog highlights some of the Club’s recent collaborations with Asian Americans and Asians. Below are excerpts from the Club’s blog entry. Read the entire post here. [This spring, Sierra Club President Allison] Chin will address the EPA in San Francisco and the…
DetailsAn article by Ngoc Nguyen in today’s New America Media website reports that “among California’s Asian Americans, 83 percent describe themselves as ‘environmentalists,’ compared to just 52 percent of all California voters, according to a first-ever poll on the environmental attitudes of Asian-American voters.” The groundbreaking multilingual poll surveyed 1,002 Asian-American voters on their views…
DetailsPaul Ong, UCLA professor of public policy, social welfare and Asian American studies, and Ninez Ponce, UCLA professor of health services, recently wrote “The State of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health in California Report,” which is the first to use statewide health data on this population and split into subgroups by ethnicity.…
DetailsUCLA’s very own Count Me In campaign, which successfully got all the UC schools to disaggragate data on AAPI students, was featured on angryasianman’s Top 30 under 30 most influential people for the month of May! Congrats to: Soetheara Chhay, Lisa Chorn, Christine Corrales, Craig Ishii, Alex Lowe, Jason Osajima, Tina Park, Kevin Peanh, Melissa…
DetailsWomen’s breast cancer risk may be reduced with regular soy intake. A study of Asian American women reported in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention suggested that eating soy throughout life was associated with lower risk of the disease. However, the most visible protection was provided with childhood soy intake. Women who had consumed…
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