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You are here: Home / Archives for VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 – JANUARY 24

Sofia Aragon sworn-in

January 20, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Sofia Aragon was sworn-in on Jan. 13 to the Burien City Council. Residents voted her in last November and this is Aragon’s first time holding a political office. She began her career as a registered nurse in south Seattle serving children, diverse families, and vulnerable populations. In Olympia, Aragon worked for a decade to improve […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2020 inductees

January 20, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Ming-Jun Li, Pushkar Tandon, and Margaret Wu are among 22 inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF). Li and Tandon, along with a third person, invented the bend-insensitive ClearCurve® optical fiber. Because it can bend without significant signal loss, ClearCurve optical fiber has reached locations previously inaccessible to optical fiber and advanced data […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

View from Gold Mountain

January 20, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The monument “View from Gold Mountain,” created by Seattle artists Cheryll Leo-Gwin and Stewart Wong, was installed outside the Bernalillo County Courthouse in Albuquerque, N.M. on Jan. 11. The monument honors the 1883 landmark court case, Territory of N.M. vs Yee Shun, which led to a change in the law and allowed Chinese and later […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

Seattle awards $40K to InterIm

January 20, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment, through the Environmental Justice Fund, awarded $40,000 to InterIm, one of seven community-based projects, to improve environmental conditions and respond to impacts of climate change. Youth from InterIm’s WILD Project will visually document the personal histories of lower-income residents and their physical and social environments within the context […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

Wang, Deng get plaque

January 20, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Pike Place Market Foundation presented a plaque this month to Felicity Wang and Deng Zuolie for their contributions in the creation of “Ju Ju,” or Golden Pearl, the Chinese Art Pig who toured the region in 2019 to celebrate the Year of the Pig. Ju Ju’s image is now being used in greeting cards […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

White House considering dramatic expansion of travel ban

January 18, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jonathan Lemire, Lisa Mascaro, and Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Donald Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations. A document outlining the plans—timed to coincide with […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

MIT warns foreign students of possible visits from ICE

January 18, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Collin Binkley The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is warning international students that federal immigration officials may visit their work sites to verify that their employment is directly related to their studies. School officials sent a memo to faculty on Jan. 9 saying the Department of Homeland Security […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

Inslee, CAPAA seeking applicants for Ruth Woo Fellowship

January 17, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

OLYMPIA — The office of Gov. Jay Inslee, in partnership with the Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs (CAPAA), is recruiting currently enrolled college and graduate students with a commitment to civil rights and equality for the Ruth Woo Fellowship. The late “Auntie Ruth” Woo fought for social justice and equality for all people. Over […]

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2020, Ruth Woo, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

The Layup Drill

January 17, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Welcome to another edition of The Layup Drill. In the first column of the decade, we take a look at an athlete looking to continue greatness after injury and one looking for it entering the NFL Draft.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

Town Hall Seattle and KUOW series highlights AAPI poets

January 17, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A poetry series featuring Asian American poets will soon kick off at Town Hall Seattle, in collaboration with KUOW.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 3 | JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24

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