I was walking past Peet’s Coffee along East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Maryland reckoning back and forth between hilly pads of blossoming coffee trees in Vietnam’s highlands and its products on a shelf at an Asian Mart elsewhere in the US. Vietnam dominated the coffee industry as the second-largest producer…

Not as I expected, UMD campus was more vibrant with construction work and students getting in line for a Covid test. The library is still closed but book drops are quick and easy.

My name is Hoa Nguyen, but I love to go by Henry Nguyen because it is much more comfortable to pronounce and familiar to most people in the United States. ( I have tested this with my friends at UMD Campus, and it works, actually.) I worked in the media…

It could be almost outdated going back one year to talk about computer science these days. There is so much happening in those 365 days, big and small. …

Unlike any other time in my life, this Lunar New Year, I stayed at home and read a bit about information technology and investments in Vietnam. The Tet festival was a mix of good and bad news. While some provinces and cities had been applying strict measures to cope with…

Năm cũ Tết, tết, tết đến rồi Lẵng lặng 365, tết rồi cũng đến Nghe rỗng rang như lòng giếng Nhân thế tình tang, Triệu chiếc khăn tang Thế giới tang hoang Nguyệt quế thiên đàng Héo úa ॐ Tiếng gió reo vui Lác đác lá rơi một chút phận…

Before earth, before the sky came no mine Space goes its way and no time to fly No up no down ten directions embrace the sun No fate no date nothing to be done Since a coincidence, hence life becomes A single leave starts from a chain of predestined some …

GROUP 6: THE IDENTITY PROJECT Tuesday, July 24th, 2018: We held a meeting at Parker Hall to assign five interviewers for the project. Guess how the conversation went? It was kind of an interesting exchange of ideas and discussion of the processes. The interviewers were Lindsey, Alex, Victoria, Rawad, Gaby and Josh. We ran a pilot interview with one of the participants to see if the set of questions we had compiled were germane to the requirements of the project.