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CAFA Conventions
CAFA Convention - 2008
Saturday, March 1
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm ($45 /person)
Monterey Hill Restaurant
3700 W. Ramona Blvd., Monterey Park, CA 91754
Tel: 323-264-8400
**** Keynote Speech ****
Chi and C. H. I.
Qingyun Ma
Dean of Architecture
Della and Harry MacDonald Dean's Chair
USC
CAFA Convention - 2007
Saturday, March 3
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm ($45 /person)
City of Arcadia Community Center
365 Campus Drive, Arcadia
**** Keynote Speech ****
Road to IPO
Hsieh, Ming
President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Cogent Systems
CAFA Convention - 2006
Saturday, March 11
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm
Monterey Hill Restaurant
3700 W. Ramona Blvd., Monterey Park, CA 91754
Tel: 323-264-8400
**** Keynote Speech ****
Educating Students in a Fast Changing Future
Professor Chih-Ming Ho
Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Professor
Director, Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE),
Henry Samuel School of Engineering and Applied Science
UCLA
Director, Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE),
Henry Samuel School of Engineering and Applied Science
UCLA
CAFA Convention - 2005
Saturday, March 12
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm
Monterey Room
Monterey Hill Restaurant
3700 W. Ramona Blvd., Monterey Park, CA 91754
Tel: 323-264-8400
**** Keynote Speech ****
Brain, Genes, and Behavior
Professor Jean C. Shih
Boyd and Elsie Welin Professor of Molecular Pharmacoloy and Toxicology
School of Pharmacy, USC
School of Pharmacy, USC
CAFA Convention - 2004
Saturday, February 28
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm
Waterford Hall, Sequoia Center
7530 Orangethrope Avenue, Buena Park, CA 90621
Tel: (714) 670-9252
**** Keynote Speech ****
Interactions Among Foods, Herbs, and Drugs:
From Grapefruit Juice to Cellular Transporters
Dr. Diane Tang-Liu
Vice President, Allergan, Inc.
Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy, USC
CAFA Convention - 2003
Saturday, March 22
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm
Empress Harbor Seafood Restaurant,
111 N. Atlantic Blvd., #350
Monterey Park, CA 91754 (Tel. 626-300-8833)
**** Keynote Speech ****
FULFILLING THE DREAMS OF AN ACADEMIC:
A Look Back at Hong Kong's 1st University of Science and Technology, and Prospects for Shanghai's Up-and-Coming Knowledge Community
Chia-Wei Woo
President Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Past President, San Frnacisco State University
CAFA Convention - 2002
Saturday, March 2
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm
Quiet Cannon Restaurant at 901 N. Via San Clementa,
Montebello, CA 90640 (Tel. 323-724-4500)
**** Keynote Speech ****
Taiwan Economic Development in a Transition Period
Chi-Yuan Lin
Chairman, Bank of Taipei
CAFA Convention - 2001
Saturday, March 3
Social Hour, 6:00 pm and Dinner, 6:30 pm
Quiet Cannon Restaurant at 901 N. Via San Clementa,
Montebello, CA 90640 (Tel. 323-724-4500)
**** Keynote Speech ****
Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer: Scourges of the Chinese?
Michael M. C. Lai
Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Keck School of Medicine, Univ. of So. California
Keynote Speech and Award Presentation
Guests
Visitors and Scholarship presentation
CAFA Convention - 2000
Saturday, February 26
Quiet Cannon Restaurant at 901 N. Via San Clementa,
Montebello, CA 90640 (Tel. 323-724-4500)
**** Keynote Speech ****
Science for the Next Millennium: Where Are the Frontiers?
Sunney I. Chan
Vice President, Academic Sinica, Taipei
George Grant Hoag Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Caltech
CAFA Convention - 1999
Saturday, February 27
5:00 - 10:00 pm
Castaway Restaurant, 1250 Harvard Road, Burbank, 818-848-6691
**** Keynote Speech ****
New Challenges for Chinese-American Activism
Alice S. Huang
Senior Councilor for External Relations and Faculty Associate in Biology, Caltech
**** Workshop - 5:00 pm ****
Using Information Technologies in Classrooms
**** Workshop - 5:00 pm ****
Financial Planning for College Faculty
CAFA Convention - 1998
Saturday, February 28
Empress Pavilion, 988 N. Hill St., LA
**** Keynote Speech ****
A Glass Ceiling for Asians in Higher Education
Frederic Y Wan
Vice Chancellor, UC, Irvine
CAFA Convention - 1997
Saturday, February 22
City of Arcadia Community Center, 365 Campus Drive, Arcadia
**** Keynote Speech ****
Chronicling our Ancestry and the Peking Man
Teh-Lung Richard Ku
Department of Earth Sciences, USC
CAFA Convention - 1996
Saturday, January 27
Faculty Center, USC
**** Keynote Speech ****
The Coming of the Information Era and Why We Should Jump Onto the Bandwagon
Kung Yao
Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
CAFA Convention - 1995
Saturday, February 18
Princess Garden, 11828 South St., Cerritos
**** Keynote Speech ****
Education: Paving the Path to Chinese American Success
Ronald S. W. Lew
United States District Judge