on the same day at the Commonwealth Auditorium of the Sadler Center.

Hosted by the Reves Center for International Studies, Nguyen will also deliver the 2022 McSwain-Walker Lecture at 5 p.m. On April 20, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and scholar Viet Thanh Nguyen will be on campus to receive the 2022 Hatsuye Yamasaki ‘37 Prize for Visionary Leadership, which honors W&M’s first female student of Asian descent. It also brought to campus three Asian Centennial Arts Fellows and launched the Asian Pacific Middle Eastern Research Project. The commemoration began in fall 2021 and has presented myriad special events since. William & Mary’s Asian Centennial celebrates the 100 th anniversary of the admission of the university’s first student from Asia, Pu-Kao Chen (Class of 1923), as well as all students of Asian, Pacific Islander and Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian descent who followed.

“The inaugural awardees of the Asian Centennial Awards are leaders and change-makers just like our earlier students of Asian descent such as Hatsuye Yamasaki ‘37 who despite being the lone woman of color on campus was the president of Brown Hall, W&M’s dormitory for women.” “The Asian Centennial Committee founded the awards to recognize our alumni who have advocated for others especially those marginalized through their careers and their volunteer efforts,' said Francis Tanglao Aguas, professor of theatre and Asian & Pacific Islander American studies and co-chair of the Asian Centennial with Sociology Professor Deenesh Sohoni. The full day of programming includes a masquerade and gala at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, which will feature the unveiling of artwork commissioned for the centennial plus the announcement of the inaugural William & Mary Asian Centennial Awards. After a year and a half packed with academic collaborations, research, performances, exhibits and other programs, William & Mary’s Asian Centennial commemoration will culminate with several special events later this month, including Asian Centennial Day on April 30.

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