Media Relations
Wednesday,
July 7,
2004
East Asia
In response to China's growing economic importance and other factors, Mandarin Chinese is becoming one of the fastest growing languages for students in secondary schools and colleges nationwide. At Indiana University, middle and high school teachers are immersed in an intensive, two-and-a-half-week course on teaching Mandarin Chinese.
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Indiana University professors Phil Henson, Phil Stevens and Scott Kennedy discuss the political and environmental climate surrounding the Olympic Games.
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An "American Idol" semi-finalist and the author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual will highlight Indiana University's annual early observance of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which honors the rich history and presence of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
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Indiana University and its East Asian Studies Center, opened the Chinese Pedagogy Institute on Sunday to 15 prospective and practicing high school teachers of Chinese. Jennifer Liu, East Asian languages and cultures professor, and Chinese language coordinator at IU, is leading the course.
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Indiana University has been selected to receive a two-year federal grant for $481,630 to provide strategic language and culture training to undergraduate students in Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs.
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Yoshito Kawahara, a third-generation Japanese American who overcame life in an internment camp to become a successful scholar and a leader of the Asian American Psychological Association, will receive the second Distinguished Asian/Pacific American Alumni Award from Indiana University on April 27.
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