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