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The university recently announced that a record number of CU-Boulder students received a Fulbright Award for the 2013-2014 academic year. This prestigious award funds teaching, research, and graduate studies abroad. Of the twelve students who received this award, six are students of Asia. These students include Ulyana Horodyskyj (Nepal), Elise...

"Very few people truly understand or can comprehend how rewarding and confidence boosting it is to make a difference in a young person’s life. The idea that this kid may be thinking of you and thanking you for the rest of his or her life is invaluable and will provide...

Tibetan Translation Issues Discussed at Recent Conference Buddhist luminaries, clustered in eastern Tibet in the nineteenth-century, composed numerous short texts of advice that are lively in their use of language and poignant in their pith instructions. In order to explore issues of translation in a range of such texts, Holly...

Asian Language Night 2013 was held on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at HUMN 1B50 from 5:30pm to 8pm, followed by a reception at the HUMN lobby from 8pm to 9pm. Language students of Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, and Korean, from beginning to advanced levels, performed skits, songs, dances and...

The event, “Visions and prophecies in Tibetan Buddhism,” had quite a large and diverse turnout. There were approximately 65-70 people in the audience (the room was Wolf Law 304, which seats only 51 so there were quite a few people standing). Among the audience members were CU faculty, CU graduate...

CAS is pleased to share the news that Leslie Dong, an Asian Studies and International Affairs major at CU, has received the Boren Award, a competitive scholarship for overseas foreign language study. Ms. Dong was the CAS Editorial Intern at Rowman & Littlefield Publishing during the Spring 2013 semester. She...

In March, CAS helped sponsor the Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA)'s annual graduate student conference. The two-day conference featured Prof. Michael Puett of Harvard University and Prof. Sharalyn Orbaugh of the University of British Columbia as keynote speakers as well as presentations by 22 graduate students in Asian Studies from...

The Center for Asian Studies would like to congratulate all those graduating this semester, with special attention to our own Asian Studies students! Christopher Wicoff focused on technology in Japan. Mr. Wicoff's thesis, "Hatsune Miku: The Reality of a Fake Pop Star," explores how a Japanese vocal synthesis software suite,...

On Sunday, April 21st, in Beijing, the private-equity financier Stephen Schwarzman announced one of the single largest education gifts ever - $300 million - to fund a new study in China initiative. According to The New York Times, the Schwarzman Scholars program will pay all expenses for 200 students each...

Learn a language this summer! CU Continuing Education is offering intensive language courses in Chinese & Japanese. These courses are offered annually through Continuing Education for regular CU credit and meet daily from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Find out more at http://conted.colorado.edu/courses/ .