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August 21, 2009

Welcome Picnic

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This Sunday, August 23, join the ASU for a welcome back-picnic.

Stop by North Lake Nokomis between 2 and 8PM for good food, and good company.

For more information about the event, visit this (FB) site.

August 19, 2009

Kicking Off With Kickoff

The U's annual 'Multicultural Kickoff' is fast-approaching.

The two-day event aims to help first-year students make a successful transition to college--by 'building community and identifying academic and cultural supports on campus.'

Plan to stop by Room 175 of Wiley Hall September 1 and 2, to meet students, faculty and staff of diverse backgrounds.

Call 612-626-0733 with questions.

August 12, 2009

New To Campus?

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Now you can join the Hmong Women's Group on Facebook.

Hmong Studies Fellows Announced

The Program in Asian American Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study are very pleased to be hosting a postdoctoral and a graduate fellow in Hmong Studies this year, thanks to a grant awarded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

Prof. Leena Her (currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison) will be the Hmong Postdoctoral Fellow and Alisia Giac-Thao Tran (a Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at the University of Minnesota), will be the Hmong Studies Graduate Fellow.

A full press release about the appointments can be found here.