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Featured Event
APIDA Graphic Novel Club Fall 2024: The Magic Fish Community Dinner
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 5:00 PM
The APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander and Desi American) Graphic Novel Club discusses it's spring 2025 book The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen. Join us as we eat Chinese food and discuss the themes of family, immigration, language, LGBTQ+, and identify. Co-sponsored by CAPS, Admissions, EOP, The Asian Resource Center, The Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian Resource Center (MENASARC) and Health & Wellness.
Point of Pride
The Department of Asian American Studies was the very first academic department dedicated to the study of Asian Americans at a major research university. It was also the first department in the United States to offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian American Studies.