Chinese woman in Pittsburgh since 1996 fears deportation: "I don’t think I’m one of the priorities they should be looking to deport."

WTAE ran a story yesterday on Fan Ding, a Chinese woman who has lived in Pittsburgh since 1996 but now fears deportation due to the impending repeal of Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Ding came to Pittsburgh at age 12 for medical treatment at UPMC, graduated from Scheneley High School in 2003 and earned an MBA from Duquesne University in 2014.

“I was having complications. I had a bone infection. I was literally dying. So the only way for my parents to save me was to try to contact the UPMC doctor here," Ding said.

After her story was featured in a newspaper article that caught the attention of then President Bill Clinton, he wrote her a letter of support.

That letter combined with an invitation to Pittsburgh from a doctor at UPMC allowed Ding and her father to obtain B2 visitor visas from the embassy.

Duolingo launches Korean for English Speakers course today.

Pittsburgh-based Duolingo has launched a Korean for English Speakers course today, according to its website.

2017 Justin Chon film Gook in Pittsburgh, from September 8.

The 2017 film Gook, which looks at the 1992 Los Angeles riots from the local Korean-American perspective, will play in Pittsburgh from September 8. A February Variety review gives an overview:

2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots, and those burning days don’t feel nearly so long ago in “Gook,” an uneven but compellingly immediate take on that moment in history from a rare Asian-American point of view. Drawing on events from his own childhood, writer-director-star Justin Chon wears his Generation X influences on his sleeve in this initially droll, finally mournful character study of two Korean-American brothers trying to keep their father’s shoe store afloat as cultural relations blister across L.A., as well as the young African-American girl who has a surprising bond with them. Alternating between bristling Spike Lee-style protest and the slacker sensibility of early Kevin Smith — in crisp black and white, to boot — Chon’s sophomore feature wavers uncertainly in tone, getting a little too cute for comfort in spots, but is otherwise a lively, auspicious breakthrough. With a Sundance audience award in its back pocket, “Gook” should manage some niche theatrical play.

The movie was released on August 18, and will play at AMC Loews Waterfront from the 8th. Tickets and showtime information is available online via Fandango. The theater is located at 300 West Waterfront Dr. in the Waterfront shopping complex in Homestead (map), across the Monongahela River from Greenfield, Squirrel Hill, and the rest of Pittsburgh.

Oakland-based WholeRen Education (美国厚仁教育集团) has HR and Office Assistant Internship opening.

Oakland-based education consultants WholeRen Education (美国厚仁教育集团) has an opening for a Chinese-speaking HR and Office Assistant Internship.

Year of Indonesia at Chatham University.

The topic of Chatham University's annual Global Focus Program will be Indonesia in 2017-18. The Global Focus Program

concentrates on one country, region, or subject of global relevance each year and enables the university community to engage in a comprehensive study of that subject through coursework, class assignments, campus events, community activities, overseas travels, co-curricular initiatives, and service learning projects.

Upcoming events for 2017-18 Year of Indonesia will be announced through the year. This is the first Asian country featured by the Global Focus Program since Vietnam in 2011-12.

Four Winds Gallery hiring Japanese- or Chinese-speaking Social Media & eCommerce Fulfillment Specialist.

Shadyside's Four Winds Gallery, which specializes in "exceptional Southwestern Native American material," is hiring a Japanese- or Chinese-speaking Social Media & eCommerce Fulfillment Specialist to manage its online presence in Asian markets.

HCL Technologies hiring Bilingual Japanese Query Understanding Analyst for position onsite at Google.

HCL Technologies is hiring a Bilingual Japanese Query Understanding Analyst for a position working onsite at Google in Larimer. The posting, via Indeed.com:

Bilingual Japanese Query Understanding Analyst is a full-time job through HCL America, Inc. onsite at Google Pittsburgh. You will work to enhance users’ online shopping experience by performing in-depth product research, analyzing the user query stream, and improving query classifier performance using highly technical internal tools and processes. It is part of a fast-paced environment, partnering closely with operations and engineering teams. Native or near-native Japanese reading/writing fluency is preferred and spending significant time living/working in the Japanese culture is a plus.

MR Bulgogi Korean food truck now operating in Pittsburgh.

via @MRBulgogiFoodTruck

Among the new restaurants and food-related establishments licensed by Allegheny County in August is MR Bulgogi, a Korean food truck, which attended its first event on August 6. It sells subs, rice, dumplings, kimchi, and bulgogi (불고기), which is popularly known as Korean barbecue. You can find MR Bulgogi online on Facebook and Instagram, and in person at FoxFest in Fox Chapel on September 8 and 9.

2016 Tibetan movie Soul on a String in Oakland, November 5.

The 2016 Tibetan movie Soul on a String will play at the Carnegie Library in Oakland on November 5 as that month's installment of International Cinema Sunday.

"Learning analytics in Higher Education in Japan", October 6 at Pitt.

Very advance notice for an upcoming talk at the University of Pittsburgh's Intelligent Systems Program in the School of Computing and Information: Dr. Hiroaki Ogata and Dr. Brendan Flanagan, both of Kyoto University, with "Learning analytics in Higher Education in Japan" on October 6.

This talk provides an overview of the Educational Big Data research project in Higher Education, Japan. This research focuses on e-book based learning logs and developed visual analytics tools for improving course design and learning materials. This talk will also introduce initial findings.

Additional talks and presentations on the topic by Dr. Ogata are available on YouTube.

The talk runs from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in 5317 Sennott Square (map) and is free and open to the public.