Ethnic Studies Students participate in prestigious Grant Awards

Ethnic Studies Instructor Elyse Yamauchi was awarded a Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant. Under her instruction 3 of her students will conduct qualitative interviews with second and beyond generation US immigrants regarding their loss of culture and language. Here is what her students are saying about this project.

Photos courtesey of Frankee E. Morning, III

Kristine Yuan

"The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program enables us to further our knowledge in research that classrooms don't offer. It's important for these programs to exist so that undergrads can have a sense of what it's like to do research in the real world, it also enables us to think outside the box of endless opportunities. The Ethnic Studies Minor is important in the sense of acknowledging individual existence and identity in this diverse world. It broadens our mind and knowledge of not only the world around us, but the person within us too."

 

Ji Hee Yoon Gwendolyn McGuire (not pictured)