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Student Achievements:

Kai Martin, ’26 Gold Medal in the College II Division of the J.Live Talk presentation contest

Angela Nguyen ’22 International Studies and Asian Studies Major:  Fulbright English Teaching Grant in Indonesia

Victor Wang ’22 Asian Studies and Biology Major:  Presidential Award for Leadership

Anna Durall ’24 Chinese Major:  Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (summer 2022 studying Chinese at Tamkang University in Taiwan)

Max Weiher ’23 Chinese Major:  Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (summer 2022 studying Chinese at National Taiwan University in Taiwan)

Jack Keller ’24 Chinese Major: Mellon Mays Fellowship

Louise Colwell ’22 Japanese Major:  JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching Program) teaching English in Mie Prefecture, Japan

Diana Her ’22 Asian Studies Major:  Mellon Mays Fellowship

John Plfaster ’22 Chinese Major:  Chinese Language and Culture Prize

Victor Wang ’22 Asian Studies and Biology Major:  Asian Studies Prize

Nick Halligan-Mesa ’22 Japanese Major:  Japanese Language and Culture Prize

Courses for Spring 2024:

ASIA/AMST/RELI 241: Reclaiming Zen, Yoga and Church: Asian American Religions

ASIA/JAPA 260: Narratives of Alienation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film

ASIA/ART 270: Making Sacred: Religious Images and Spaces in Asia

ASIA/ART 273: Art of Japan

ASIA/HIST 275: The Rise of Modern China

ASIA/AMST/MCST 283: Bruce Lee, His Life and Legacy

ASIA/CHIN/ENGL 294: Literature and the Arts of Empire: Early Modern China and England

ASIA/CHIN 294: The Art of Writing in China

ASIA/HIST 294: Global History of Caste (1800-present)

ASIA/AMST 294: Not Your Model Minority: Japanese Americans from Incarceration to Redress and Beyond

ASIA/GEOG 320: Asian Cities

ASIA/ART 350: Embodiment and Subjectivity in Later Chinese Art

RELI 111: Introduction to Buddhism