Feb 12, 2019
Ringing in Lunar New Year
Students celebrated Lunar New Year by making origami, writing calligraphy, competing in mahjong, playing a game with chopsticks and candy, and enjoying…
Asian Studies
Jun 21, 2018
Canceled Military Exercises with South Korea: What Comes Next?
Professors Il Hyun Cho and Seo-Hyun Park penned an analysis published in The Washington Post of the Pentagon's cancellation of military exercises with…
Mar 7, 2018
Confronting Fake News
It distorts the truth, sways opinions, and has the power to impact elections. Fake news is in the news and on the minds of people concerned about its influence…
Feb 7, 2018
Deconstructing the Model Minority Myth
By Bryan Hay Students in Neha Vora’s Asian America class spent last semester dismantling the model minority myth, examining how it relates to themes…
Dec 6, 2017
Outcasts of Empire
By Katie Neitz When it comes to the history of the Japanese Empire, one event—Pearl Harbor—overshadows all others. (A day that lives in infamy, indeed…
Dec 5, 2017
Futures for the Jet Set
By Bill Landauer Maybe your future job is thousands of miles away, working in education in a third-world nation or dealing with clients who don’t speak…
Nov 5, 2017
Understanding U.S.-North Korea Relations
By Stephen Wilson In a filled Oechsle Hall auditorium on a Friday afternoon, Seo-Hyun Park, associate professor of government and law, and Il Hyun Cho…
Aug 17, 2017
19 Students Present Findings at National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Tawiq Alhamedi ’17 is among 19 Lafayette students who presented their findings at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Sharing his findings…
Jul 18, 2017
Research Compares Views of Energy Security in East Asia and Europe
By Kevin Gray The availability of affordable energy, or energy security, is one of the biggest challenges facing governments today. Il Hyun Cho, assistant…
Nov 20, 2015
Barclay and Luhrs speak at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
History Professor Paul Barclay and Director of Digital Scholarship Services Eric Luhrs were invited to participate in a workshop on “Advancing Digital…