The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for distinguished immigrants and children of immigrants, has announced their class of 2024 fellows. This year, 30 applicants were selected from a pool of more than 2,300 applicants and will each be awarded up to $90,000 in funding to support their […]
Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) hosted a ceremony that celebrated the establishment of the Lita Marcelo Abele (LMA) Women’s Institute for Business Studies at the college. The event took place on March 6, at the Rastelli Business and Corporate Center, located on the college’s Gloucester campus. The Women’s Institute for Business Studies was named […]
By Maricar CP Hampton Janice Armas remembered how one student with autism tried to grab her hair and punch her in the face. She reached into her skill set of how to “respond appropriately” keeping in mind always the safety of both the student and the teacher. Pangasinan-born Janice Salinas Armas is an education specialist, […]
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Very few Filipinos are aware that within the University of Pittsburgh is a tourist spot, an imposing building called the Cathedral of Learning. It is the only edifice in an educational institution within the United States and maybe throughout the world where there are “nationality classrooms” constructed in the likeness of […]
By Loida Nicolas Lewis “Ora et Labora”is Latin for “Pray and Work”, the motto of the Benedictine German Nuns in St. Agnes’ Academy (SAA) in Albay, Legazpi City from where we, my high school classmates of Class ’59, graduated nearly 65 years ago. Recently, 11 of us had a reunion in Easthampton where the Lewis […]
The passing of Chef KING PHOJANAKONG on January 2 was an upsetting way to start the year 2023 for the Filipino American community. The beloved owner of Kuma Inn on the Lower East Side died from a rare amoeba infection, according to his family. The culinary community was in grief. The arrival of new Consul […]
Angat Buhay Foundation USA Inc., the first international partner of former Vice President Leni Robredo’s foundation of the same name, announced a fundraising event and round table discussion to activate their advocacies in public health, public education, disaster relief & rehabilitation and community engagement. The announcement was made by Executive Director Roger Santos of New […]
By Selen Ozturk PEN America reports 1,477 individual U.S. book bans during the first half of the 2022-2023 school year — 28% more than the prior six months. Forty percent of books banned from July 2021 to June 2022 had protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color; 21% had titles indicating race issues. Examples of such banned books […]
Patrick Emmanuel Sangalang, a computer science major in the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at Cal State LA, hopes to use his passion for computer science to inspire young students to pursue the many career possibilities in the STEM fields. “Mr. Sangalang’s aptitude for computer science, coupled with his commitment to helping others, […]