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Sponsored by St. Olaf’s Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry<\/strong>\u00a0(CURI<\/a>), this project was developed by Professor Ka Wong<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Asian Studies<\/a> department, along with his students from the TRiO McNair Scholar\u00a0Program<\/a> and Asian Conversations<\/a>.<\/p>\nAiming to promote and facilitate undergraduate research in all fields, the CURI program provides opportunities for St. Olaf students\u00a0to work closely with a faculty member in a research framework and gain better and deeper understanding of a particular subject.<\/p>\n
Initiated in St. Olaf in\u00a02007, the TRIO McNair Scholars Program is one of the eight existing Federal TRIO programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education. This graduate preparatory program provides academic support to low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students, helping them prepare\u00a0for applying to graduate school.<\/p>\n
Asian Conversations (ASCON) is a high impact learning community about Asia, along with a sequence of Chinese or Japanese language study for participants\u2019 first two years of college. The program is dedicated to providing students with a comprehensive global perspective with exceptional disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches on Asia (such as art, history, linguistics, literature, political science, and religion) as well as a faculty-led experiential January term to China and Japan during the sophomore year.<\/p>\n
Asia in Northfield <\/strong><\/em>is an ongoing project. The initial research and production <\/span>team includes <\/span>Jacob Caswell <\/strong>(’17), Paoge Moua<\/strong> (\u201915), and Meena Wainwright\u00a0<\/strong>(\u201916), from CURI and Trio\/McNair programs. Updated efforts have been provided by various members from the Asian Conversations program, such as Andrew Arrington <\/strong>(’26), Ryan Carlisle <\/strong>(’26), Gus Duininck <\/strong>(’25), and John Shorter <\/strong>(’26), as well as student interns from the DiSCO\/IT department Isaiah Thao <\/strong>(’24) and Thomas Xiong <\/strong>(’27), \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sponsored by St. Olaf’s Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry\u00a0(CURI), this project was developed by Professor Ka Wong\u00a0of the\u00a0Asian Studies department, along with his students from the TRiO McNair Scholar\u00a0Program and Asian Conversations. Aiming to promote and facilitate undergraduate research in all fields, the CURI program provides opportunities for St. Olaf students\u00a0to work closely with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" [et_pb_section bb_built=\"1\"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text]<\/p> Sponsored by St. Olaf's Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry<\/strong>\u00a0(CURI<\/a>), this project was developed in\u00a0the summer of 2014 by Professor Ka Wong<\/a>, of the\u00a0Asian Studies<\/a>\u00a0department,\u00a0along with three student researchers: Jacob Caswell, Meena Wainwright, both from CURI, and Paoge Moua from the TRiO McNair Scholar\u00a0Program<\/a>.<\/p> Aiming to promote and facilitate undergraduate research in all fields, the CURI program provides opportunities for St. Olaf students\u00a0to work closely with a faculty member in a research framework and gain better and deeper understanding of a particular subject.<\/p> Initiated in St. Olaf in\u00a02007, the TRIO McNair Scholars Program is one of the eight existing Federal TRIO programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education. This graduate preparatory program provides academic support to low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students, helping them prepare\u00a0for applying to graduate school.<\/p> https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/368\/2014\/07\/IMG_0928.jpg<\/p> Ka Wong\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Director of Chinese at St. Olaf College. He received his PhD. in Chinese and M.A. in Arts from the University of Hawaii and another M.A. in Thai Studies from Chulalongkom University, Thailand.\u00a0His research interests explore the symbiotic ties and tensions between individual identity and cultural discourse. Integrating culture and technology into the Chinese language classroom is also one of his focuses.\u00a0<\/span>He has published on a wide range of topics such as Chinese language acquisition, cultural pedagogy, transnational cinema, visual anthropology, premodern Chinese literature, and public art.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Jacob Caswell<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em>(Class of '17) is a Minnesota native, raised in Minnetonka, a western suburb of Minneapolis. Although he is a physics and math major, he has always been intrigued by how cultural identity affects individual life experiences in the United States. He also firmly believes that, as a liberal arts college student, he should explore fields beyond his more immediate and strictly defined\u00a0area of study. He is confident and determined to pursue graduate studies in the broader field of physics upon his graduation, although he hasn't quite decided which specific field he might choose.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> \u00a0<\/p> Meena Wainwright<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Class of '16) is originally from Georgetown, Texas. Her family now resides in Boulder, Colorado. She majors in French and Asian Studies with a China Studies concentration. With a\u00a0keen\u00a0interest in linguistics\u00a0and language\u00a0acquisition, she is also intrigued by\u00a0personal and cultural identity as well as cross-cultural communication. She is\u00a0considering graduate school in the field of humanities upon graduation, although she is leaving her options open at the moment. Working on this project has allowed her to fulfill a lifelong dream of utilizing microfilm, designing a website, and having the opportunity to polish\u00a0her public speaking skills.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> \u00a0<\/p> Paoge Moua<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Class of '15), a TRIO McNair Scholar, is from just outside of the Twin Cities in Oakdale, Minnesota. He majors in Asian Studies with a China Studies concentration. His primary interest is the Asian American experience, specifically the interactions among socioeconomic adjustment, political participation, and mental health. After graduation, he hopes to pursue graduate studies in Sociology or Asian American Studies. \u00a0He enjoyed interviewing the participants and getting to know their stories both on a personal and academic level. \u00a0He also appreciated the opportunity to\u00a0work with his fellow colleagues.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}