Posted on 13 July 2011. Tags: 2011, Chris Lu, Christina Lagdameo, Christopher Lu, Daphne Kwok, Debadutta Dash, Hyeok Kim, Kamuela Enos, Murthy Kalkura, Ronnie Chatterji, Toby Chaudhuri, Umni Song, Vol 30 No 29 | July 16 - July 22
Guests at the summit included, from left: Daphne Kwok, chair of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPI’s; Christina Lagdameo, Deputy Director, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Ronnie Chatterji, Senior Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisors; Christopher Lu, Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary; Umni Song, member of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs; Kamuela Enos, member of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs and director of enterprise at MA’O Organic Farms; and Hyeok Kim, member of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs and executive director of Interim Community Development Association (Photo by Rebecca Ip/SCP)
By Janelle Wetzstein
UW News Lab
Sustainability is no longer just about the environment, according to White House Cabinet Secretary Chris Lu, who spoke in Seattle last weekend. Read the full story
Posted in Community News, Vol 30 No 29 | 7/16-7/22
Posted on 21 April 2011. Tags: 2011, Christopher Lu, Vol 30 No 17 | April 23 - April 29
Christopher Lu
Christopher Lu, of Redmond, won top honors at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Junior Piano Competition.
Lu is a 14-year-old freshman at Interlake High School in Bellevue. He was a national finalist in the 2010 MTNA Junior Piano Competition in Albuquerque before winning this year’s competition.
Lu was the first prize winner in the 2008 Seattle International Piano Competition Junior Division.
He made his orchestra debut at age 13 and has been featured on MSNBC, as well as local TV and radio stations. Lu has been a student of Peter Mack for the last four and a half years.
As a national competition winner, Lu received $1,000, provided by the Kawai America Corporation. ♦
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 30 No 17 | 4/23-4/29
Posted on 28 January 2010. Tags: 2010, Christopher Lu, Vol 29 No 5 | January 30 - February 5
Christopher Lu
Christopher Lu won the Northwest division of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Junior Piano Competition this month and will travel to Albuquerque in March to compete as one of seven national finalists.
An 8th grader at Odle Middle School, Lu has been studying piano for 8 years and is currently a student of Peter Mack. ♦
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 29 No 5 | 1/30-2/5
