the McDonnell International Scholars Academy. Currently, Li is working on her dissertation with plans to graduate in May 2018. Her research focuses on modern Chinese literature, film and media, Sinophone literatures and cultures, and Asian Diasporic Literature. She recently published, "'At Home in the World': Hong Kong as a Cosmopolitan City in Xu Xi's Unwalled City" in Telos.

LRU's Lineberger Multicultural Studies Scholar in Residence is supported by the Lineberger Center for Cultural and Educational Renewal, which also collaborates with the University's nationally recognized Visiting Writers Series. Each year a national search is held for the Scholar in Residence. The program is aimed at providing LRU students with opportunities to have conversations about multiculturalism, and to work with someone who has expertise not available on the LRU campus.Sunrise Music has launched a special website for the "Mobile Suit Gundam 40th Anniversary Album -BEYOND-" to be released in Japan on April 29, 2020, revealing the CD jacket illustration newly drawn by the Gundam original character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko for its perfect limited production edition, featuring young Char (Casval) and grown Char facing each other.

The 13-song memorial album is supervised by Sugizo (Luna Sea/X JAPAN guitarist), and its perfect limited production edition comes with a bonus disc that includes the theme songs for the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin OVA series.

A 30-second CM narrated by Shuichi Ikeda (Char Aznable VA) is now streamed.

"Mobile Suit Gundam 40th Anniversary Album -BEYOND-"song list:

1. "Sora no Uta -Higher and Higher-" LUNA SEA

(Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red