Old News (Summer / Fall 2004)

Fall 2004

Trangdai Tranguyen (2000-04) has just published her third book, a collection of poetry entitled Songs For A Boat Father. It features guest commentary by several luminaries including APSA faculty advisors Craig Ihara and, ahem, Richard Jong. To purchase, please contact Poets in VietnAmerica at pivainfo@yahoo.com.


Summer 2004

Former APSA president Trangdai Tranguyen (2000-04) has been making the rounds recently in the honors / awards circuit. In addition to being presented with the CSUF Alumni Association's 2004 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, she was one of two CSUF students to receive a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. During the 2004-05 school year, she will use her fellowship to study Vietnamese refugee communities in Sweden. [Since your Alumni Association award comes with a $1000 check, does this mean you will be treating APSA folks to a nice dinner?]

Retiring APSA president Carol Vu (2000-04) is nearing completion of her work in the McNair Scholars Program at CSUF. Under the supervision of Thomas Fujita-Rony, her research project, entitled "A Collective Power of Literary Voices: Vietnamese American Women Poets and Their Activism Through Poetry," will soon be published in an upcoming edition of the McNair Journal. In addition, Carol was recently awarded the Outstanding Asian American Studies Student award for 2003-2004. During the Spring 2005 semester, she will be studying in France where we expect her to blend right in with the locals. Following her return from Europe, she plans to pursue graduate studies, most likely in the field of Ethnic Studies.

Isabella Kanjanapangka (2000-02) will be pursuing graduate studies in journalism at the Newhouse School of Public Communications (Syracuse University) during the 2004-05 school year. She recently received a Newhouse Fellows semi-finalist award by the school, enabling her to attend the university tuition-free! Now if she could only show up at taiko concerts on time...

Graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2004, Amy Bui (2002) was recognized at the recent Honors Convocation as one of the President's Scholars. She will return to the United Kingdom (more specifically, the University of Oxford) this summer to continue her research on the Osmoregulation of the mwr site in pJHCMW1 from Klebsialla pneumonia. [huh?] Upon her return to the U.S., Amy plans to pursue graduate studies at a to-be-announced institution.