Meetig date: December 9, 2022 Venue: via Zoom

Present

Ani Aprahamian, Mark Chenian, Paul Boghossian, Vicken Cheterian, Nina Hovnanian, Adam Kablanian, Karnig Kerkonian, Mary Papazian, Vatche Sahakian

Absent

Deana Arsenian, Rachel Goshgarian, Artak Melkonyan, Nerses Yeritsyan.

Meeting opened at 8:05am U.S. Pacific Time.

Updates & Action Items

Update - Membership

Total of 210 Fellows and 7 Friends

Results of votes on new candidates (click to expand)

Approved as Fellows (8)

Sharon Chekijian

Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin

Chemistry Nobel Laureate in 2020

Liana Yepremyan

Assistant professor of mathematics at Emory University

Lilit Mkrtchyan

EduArmenia Founder, Professor of History at Yerevan State University

Davit Zargarian

Professor of Chemistry, Université de Montréal

Marie-Aude Baronian

Professor of Visual Arts and Philosophy, University of Amsterdam

Sipana Tchakerian

Postdoc at the l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris; Lecturer at Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Maria Titizian

Writer and journalist, Founding Editor of EVN Report, Lecturer in Media and Journalism at AUA. She was Associate Editor of the Armenian Reporter, Managing Editor at CivilNet.

Approved as Friends (3)

Shant Garabedian

Emergency Department Medical Director, West Tennessee Healthcare

Seda Kocharyan

EduArmenia Founder, Teacher at Shenzhen Oasis International School, specializes in primary education

Sona Balasanyan

Assistant professor, Sociology, Education, Yerevan State University, Director, CRRC-Armenia Foundation

Update: Budget Report

Current bank account balance in U.S.: $6,811.52

Current bank account balance in Armenia: 1,036,517.00 drams

Year end review: Total income ~$52,000 (projected)

Update: HyeConnect

Agreement with Hyeconnect to use their platform for ASOF’s network — currently in pilot.

Update: Math Honors pilot

Five students received their scholarship payments for the first term.