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Sunday, March 14 at 6:00 pm
Buffalo Brewing Co., 300 Olive Street
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Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 pm
Asian Pacific Development Center, York Street
1825 York Street, Denver
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Items tagged: steven chu

Steven Chu Announces "Cash for Refrigerators"

Coming off the heals of the widely popular Cash for Clunkers program, Energy Secretary Steven Chu has just announced a new rebate program to help boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances.


Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart!

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Steven Chu was on the Daily Show last Tuesday.  Did you miss it?

If you did (like me), definitely check it out here!


100 Reasons to Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month

Cross-posted by Jay Chen (Board member, Hacienda-La Puente Unified School District), pictured here with Maya Soetoro-Ng, Konrad Ng, and Karen Chang.

Jay Chen


AAPI Presidential Appointments in the Obama Administration Update

white-house Most people have heard about Steven Chu being named Secretary of Energy and Eric Shinseki getting the Secretary of Veteran Affairs, but there are over 8,000 jobs to be filled in the Obama Administration and AAPI's are being named to some of those. APAP is currently compiling a list of AAPI's who have secured positions in the White House. Starting next Friday, we'll be providing bi-weekly updates on some of these people and their roles. So come check out the list. And if you know of anyone we should have listed, please let us know. You can send updates to PatriceYao@apaforprogress.org To read more about Steven Chu and Eric Shinseki, join us on the other side.

President-Elect Obama Announces Environment and Energy Team

Steven Chu: Next Energy Secretary!

Various news reports have confirmed that Nobel prize winning physicist and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Steven Chu is President-Elect Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy. If chosen, Chu would one of the only people to hold the position with direct professional experience with energy and related issues (as opposed to the career politicians who typically have held the position). Chu has also been particularly outspoken on the need to develop alternative energy sources and to fight global warming.