For the last fifty years, the Offshore Technology Conference has served as a platform for industry professionals to present and exchange advances in offshore technology. Due to its success and demand from a globally expanding industry, OTC has created three separate events to address region specific challenges. Starting with the Arctic Technology Conference, OTC has […]
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Asian Americans: Expanding Our Horizons
By Houston History Magazine on October 28, 2015 in Arts & Culture, Communities, Houstonians, Other, Race & Ethnicity
The year 2015 marks a half century since the United States passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, a comprehensive immigration reform that abolished the racial quota system established in 1924 that was based on national origins. The new law admitted people based on criteria such as family reunification, skills needed in the U.S. workplace, and […]
North America Taiwanese Women’s Association
By Houston History Magazine on October 28, 2015 in Archives, Arts & Culture, Communities, Education, Houstonians, Race & Ethnicity, University of Houston, Women
Not content with the status quo and lacking an organization to represent them, a small group of thirty Taiwanese women from the United States and Canada formed what became the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association (NATWA) in March of 1988. A non-profit run primarily by volunteers, NATWA created a nongovernmental organization to address major issues […]