Founded on September 15, 2023, Asian Faculty Association at Yale (AFAY) is a group of over 200 Yale faculty members dedicated to promoting the active contributions of its members to the mission and core values of Yale University. AFAY membership is open to Yale faculty members of all tracks and all ranks, regardless of ethnic background. To join us, please email siyuan.wang_at_yale.edu.
New Asian Faculty Association at Yale holds first meeting, seeks to ‘promote and protect’ members on campus – Yale Daily News
Announcements
JUN 15, 2024
Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF) will host a webinar on bias against Asian American faculty in research funding and prestigious recognitions, and how to correct this situation on June 21, 2024. AFAY member Sandy Chang will be one of the speakers. AFAY board member Haifan Lin will serve as one of the commentators. More details and registration link here.
JUN 7, 2024
Nature interviewed AFAY President Prof. Qin Yan‘s regarding concerns of recent entry denials of our Chinese students holding valid US visas by agents of US. Customs and Border Protection, and a new Florida law that limits universities’ ability to recruit students and faculty members from China. More details here.
JUN 4, 2024
Baker Institute will host A Dialogue Between the Academic and Asian American Communities and the FBI on June 6, 2024. Livestream registration link and other info can be found here.
MAY 29, 2024
Congratulations to AFAY member Prof. Kai (Jack) Zhang, whose study on high-resolution in situ cryo-electron microscopy was published in Nature. More details here.
MAY 4, 2024
AFAY held joint conference with the Chinese-American Professors Association in Connecticut (CAPA-CT) on “Embracing Challenges and Opportunities: Perspectives of Asian American Scholars“. More details here.
MAY 4, 2024
Congratulations to AFAY President Prof. Qin Yan for receiving the Beacon Award from the Chinese-American Professors’ Association in Connecticut (CAPA-CT).
APR 26, 2024
AFAY Secretary Prof. Siyuan (Steven) Wang wins American Federation for Aging Research New Investigator Award in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research. More details here.
APR 20, 2024
AFAY President Prof. Qin Yan‘s comments regarding recent entry denials of our Chinese students holding valid US visas by agents of US. Customs and Border Protection are cited by The Guardian. More details here.
APR 17, 2024
Time’s ‘100 Most Influential’ list features two of our Asian American colleagues at Yale, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki (AFAY member) and Prof. Priyamvada Natarajan. More details here.
APR 3, 2024
AFAY is hosting an in-person and online seminar on April 19, 2024 at 4-5pm given by Prof. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of Science Family of Journals, titled “Let’s stick together: Sustaining the scientific record and scientific community during chaos”. More details here.
MAR 26, 2024
Yale President Peter Salovey and American Academy of Arts and Sciences President David Oxtoby hosted an award presentation and reception in honor of AFAY Board Member Prof. Haifan Lin for receiving the Amory Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More details here.
MAR 7, 2024
AFAY and nearly 50 ally organizations succeeded in preventing the relaunch of the ‘China Initiative’ through House Appropriations Bill. More details here.
MAR 5, 2024
AFAY Board Member Prof. Haifan Lin was invited to the White House for a roundtable in celebration of Asian American scholars’ contributions. More details here.
MAR 1, 2024
The Science Magazine interviewed AFAY President Prof. Qin Yan regarding recent entry denials of our Chinese students holding valid US visas by agents of US. Customs and Border Protection. More details here.
FEB 3, 2024
AFAY 2024 New Year Party was successfully held. AFAY President Prof. Qin Yan summarized our efforts and achievements since the establishment of AFAY last September, and the challenges our community still faces. Yale Vice Provost Prof. Gary Desir and Yale School of Medicine Deputy Dean Prof. Darin Latimore spoke in support of AFAY. We then voted on our official logo and had a multi-cultural celebration with performances, games, and food. Check out our program here and photos in the Activities tab.
FEB 2, 2024
AFAY Board Members met with Yale President Search Committee and Yale Board of Trustees representatives to discuss Yale new presidential search.
FEB 1, 2024
Congratulations to AFAY Board Member Prof. Haifan Lin for receiving the prestigious Francis Amory Prize in Reproductive Medicine and Physiology from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. More details here.
DEC 17, 2023
Statement from President Joe Biden on the 80th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. AFAY helped revise and co-signed an open letter led by United Chinese Americans (UCA) calling for this statement.
DEC 7, 2023
AFAY and 44 other organizations sent a coalition letter to Congress in opposition of appropriations proposal to reinstate the China Initiative. See press release here.
NOV 12, 2023
Yale-Zhejiang University Hematology Symposium will be held on Dec 4. Check out the flyer and Yale calendar entry.
OCT 25, 2023
YSM held event honoring the legacy of Yan Fuqing, MD, class of 1909. See reports from Yale Daily News and YSM News.
OCT 22, 2023
Congratulations to AFAY President Prof. Qin Yan for receiving the 2023 Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology. More details here.
OCT 10, 2023
Congratulations to our colleague Prof. Emily Ai-hua Wang for being elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), who becomes the third Asian NAM member at Yale, after AFAY members Prof. Nita Ahuja and Prof. Akiko Iwasaki.
OCT 4, 2023
Congratulations to AFAY members Prof. Yong-Hui Jiang and Prof. Jiangbing Zhou for receiving a $40 million grant from NIH to develop novel gene therapy for brain diseases. More details here.
Congratulations to AFAY members Prof. Yong-Hui Jiang, Prof. Jiangbing Zhou and Prof. Akiko Iwasaki for receiving the Yale Faculty Innovation Awards for bringing their discoveries to market and launching Yale innovation into the world. More details here.
SEP 21, 2023
Reception at the Provost’s House. There will be a Celebration of Asian Faculty at Yale on Tuesday, October 3rd at 11:30am at the Provost’s House. Please email siyuan.wang_at_yale.edu for the registration link. Registration will close on September 28th.
Break Bread Together. On Oct 17 at 12-1pm, there will be a cultural food tasting event featuring a table of Asian food from AFAY at Harkness Lounge (367 Cedar Street). The event is sponsored by the Departments of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics, and Yale’s affinity groups. Please email siyuan.wang_at_yale.edu for the registration link.