Meetig date: September 28, 2022 Venue: via Zoom

Present

Ani Aprahamian, Deana Arsenian, Paul Boghossian, Nina Hovnanian, Artak Melkonyan, Mary Papazian, Vatche Sahakian, Nerses Yeritsyan

Absent

Mark Chenian, Vicken Cheterian, Rachel Goshgarian, Adam Kablanian, Karnig Kerkonian

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

Updates & Action Items

Membership

Currently we have 192 Fellows and 9 Friends/Partners

New members:

2 approved as Friends

Chris Bohjalian

Novelist and the author of 20 novels

Aram Salatian

Director on South Asia, CIS and Middle East, National Instruments, Engineer

3 approved as Partners

Fund for Armenian Relieg/The Armenian National Science & Education Fund

The Central Bank of Armenia

Union of Advanced Technology Entreprises

28 approved as Fellows

Hacop Yacoubian

Dean of AUA College of Humanities and Social Science.

Suren Aloyan

Founder Dasaran, Koreez educational initiatives.

Susanna Karakhanyan

INQAAHE Immediate Past President, ADEK HE Policy&Regulation Director, Higher Education Governance, Policy-making, and Quality Assurance Expert

Garik Israelian

Astrophysicist, founder of Starmus Festival

Diana Davidova

Mathematics PhD at UIB, rising mathematician received Emil Artin award

Iren Mkhoyan

Aerospace Engineer | Researcher — Phd Candidate at the Netherlands Aerospace Centre.

Michael Kouchakdjian

Professor at the Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics

Director, Entrepreneurship and Product Innovation Center

American University of Armenia

David Kazanjian

Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

Garo Ghazarian

Human and Civil Rights Advocate, Criminal Defense Attorney, Former Law School Dean and Professor of Law

Serop Khachatryan

Professor at Yerevan State University, Department of Philosophy and Psychology, ex-CEO of Children of Armenia Fund (COAF)

Valentine Ananikov

Head of Laboratory, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Member of Academia Europaea

Hrag Papazian

Researcher, Anthropologist, UCLA The Promise, Oxford, and Armenia.

Raffi Aroain

Professor, Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Tigran Mkhoyan

PhD researcher at Delft University in Engineering

Virginia Valian

Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College - CUNY

Karen Eguiazarian

Professor of Computer Science, Tampere University, Finland

David Akopian

Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas San Antonio

Susanna Karakhanyan

INQAAHE Immediate Past President, ADEK HE Policy&Regulation Director, Higher Education Governance, Policy-making, and Quality Assurance Expert

Lusine Kharatyan

Heads DVV International Armenia Country Office (Institute for International Cooperation of German Adult Education Association)

Artem Oganov

Crystallographer, mineralogist, chemist, physicist, and materials scientist.

Professor at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

Gayane Shagoyan

Professor, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography

Gagik Shmavonyan

Applied physicist/engineer from Polytechnical University of Armenia.

Jacqueline Karaslanian

Co-Founder & CEO, Learning Architects; founder of the Luys foundation;

Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom, MIT’s Media Lab.

Hayk Chobanyan

Historian, UATE, past Minister of High-Tech Industry.

Hayk Margarian

CEO at National Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Armenia

Marco Brambilla

Contemporary artist and film director

Armen Derkevorkian

Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, ex-NASA engineer, researcher at JPL.

Annita Nerses

Vice President and General Manager of the Defense and Intelligence Missions business segment for Intrepid Networks

Proposal to create a new category for young scholars tabled for now

Budget

Income: ~$2,500 in US, ~$1725 in Armenia

Current bank account balance in US: $3,109.07not including new pledge of $4,000

Current bank account balance in Armenia: 1379251 drams (~$3451)

Project updates

Stage 0: Formative Stage 1: Project development Stage 2: Fundraising Stage 3: Implementation