In celebration of AAPI heritages at Stony Brook University, we invited Ava Chin—author, professor, and fifth-generation New Yorker—to discuss her award-winning book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Homecoming. In this work, Chin delves into the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the United States’ first immigration restriction,
The Health Sciences Library will be hosting our Health Tech Fair on September 26th from 10-1 pm. All students, staff, faculty, and University Hospital staff are welcome! We will have representatives from Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill, VisualDx, Thieme, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), the Center for
A recording of the panel discussion is available here. On Friday, April 26th, University Libraries Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee hosted a panel discussion on Decolonizing Minds: Frantz Fanon’s Enduring Influence at the Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 1. The panel included Adam Shatz, US editor of The
Join Dean Karim Boughida for a special event with the author and journalist Adam Shatz Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is
Four members of University Libraries presented at the 2024 Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Northeast Chapter’s Annual Conference, themed ‘We’re all in this together’: Catalyzing Social Change in Asian American Communities,” on April 6th, 2024, at Bobst Library, NYU. Michael Huang, SUNY Distinguished Librarian and Director of Global Library Initiatives,
On the evening of October 19th, University Libraries hosted its first-ever nursing panel in honor of Filipino American History Month. Nerissa Balce, Associate Professor of Asian & Asian American Studies, moderated the panel. Panelists included: Sofia Reyes, Clinical Instructor, School of Nursing; Director of Simulation Education Lani Blanco, Clinical Instructor,
Iris Wu, Student Staff, Library Dean’s Office During Communiversity Day, I had the privilege of getting to interact with a wide range of demographics and show them the resources our libraries have. Some of the younger children who attended did really well with our Library Trivia activity. I really wanted
On Friday, October 20th, four members of University Libraries attended the APALA (Asian Pacific American Library Association) Northeast Chapter visit to Princeton University. Librarians had an opportunity to learn about DEI initiatives from Ufuoma Abiola, Executive Head and Associate University Librarian for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Amy Vo, Processing Archivist;
On Thursday, September 28th, from 10-1 p.m., the Health Sciences Library hosted a Health Tech Fair where representatives demonstrated their resources. The Health Tech Fair included representatives from the National Network of Library of Medicine (Region 7), the Clinical Simulation Center, the Long Island Library Resources Council, the Center for
Five members of University Libraries attended the 32nd Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future: AI In Libraries hosted by the Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC) on October 6th, 2023. They learned about how libraries can leverage AI in libraries and the ethics regarding the use of AI. (Photos
