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.
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
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