Meetig date: August 4, 2022 Venue: via Zoom

Present

Ani Aprahamian, Deana Arsenian, Paul Boghossian, Mark Chenian, Vicken Cheterian, Nina Hovnanian, Adam Kablanian, Artak Melkonyan, Vatche Sahakian, Mary Papazian

Absent

Rachel Goshgarian, Karnig Kerkonian, Nerses Yeritsyan

Quorum was established, meeting opened at 8:05am U.S. Pacific Time.

Updates

Membership

Currently we have 162 Fellows and 6 Friends/Partners

New members:

6 approved as Friends

Greg Boursalian

Chemistry, industry.

Sahag Voskian

CTO & Co-Founder, Verdox

Electrochemistry

Petros Keshishian

Data Scientist working now for insurance companies, Civil Engineering

Armen Martirossyan

Earthquake Engineer

Alex Thomasian

Systems Engineer, from both academia and industry

Anna Barseghian

Experience of organizing events and residencies with artists and scholars

20 approved as Fellows

Martin Eskijian

Benefactor, Engineer, retired

Hovannes Kulhandjian

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

California State University, Fresno

Sos Agaian

Computer Science, Distinguished Professor, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Elected to the Academia Europaea

Hagop Der-Ghoukassian

Director, artist

Lilit Tsolak Movsesyan

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Chair

of Linguistics and Communication Theory, Brusov State University

Executive Assistant to Director, AANL

Razmig Keucheyan

Professor of sociology at Paris-Descartes, working on the social and economical issues of the ecological transition.

Georgi Asatryan

Ph.D. in History, Associate professor, Moscow State University and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, expert for Russian International Affairs Council

Dr. Shant Shekherdimian

Medical doctor at UCLA and an advisor to the minister of health in Armenia.

Assistant professor of surgery at UCLS.

Elias Kiritsis

Theoretical physicist, Director of Crete Center for Theoretical Physics. Education from Caltech, married to Armenian.

Vartkes Apkarian

Distinguished Professor, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, UC Irvine

Patrick Shahgaldian

Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Nanotechnology, Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Switzerland

Syuzanna Harutunyan

Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry,

Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Vladimir GevorgyanRobert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, University of Texas Dallas

Gevorg Grigoryan

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Dartmouth College

Stephen Hannesian

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Montreal

Armen Zakarian

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara

Lou Charkoudian

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Haverford College

Justin Du Bois

Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University

Erik Alexanian

Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Education from Harvard and Princeton

Anzhela Galstyan

Junior Professor of Chemistry at University of Duisburg-Essen, Photobiology, photochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Chemical Biology

21 new nominations will be processed via email over the next week

Proposal to create a new category for young scholars - to be reviewed by the Membership & Nominations committee

Registration in Armenia

Ani has completed registration of ASOF in Armenia:

Հայ Մշակութային և Գիտական Ընկերակցութիւն

Armenia Board of Trustees: Ani Aprahamian, Nina Hovnanian, Adam Kablanian, Artak Melkonyan, Mary Papazian, Nerses Yeritsyan, Vatche Sahakian

Founders: Adam Kablanian, Vatche Sahakian, Ani Aprahamian

Armenia Interim Executive Director: Lilit Movsesian