Yerevan, ARMENIA – At its recent meeting, the Board of Trustees of the American University of Armenia welcomed Dr. Lawrence Pitts as its new Chairman. Dr. Pitts, the outgoing provost of the University of California system, succeeds current AUA Board Chair, Dr. C. Judson King. During the same meeting, the Board also welcomed three additional…

International and local experts were in Yerevan on Friday, November 30 for a one-day conference examining the choices available to Armenia as it tries to balance economic gains with that of social equity as well as public and environmental health. The presentations and photos available are shared below. In coming days we will continue to…

YEREVAN--AUA alumni Armine Podosyan has been elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA). http://www.wfuna.org/ Podosyan, a 2011 graduate of the American University of Armenia’s Master of Public Health (MPH) Program, was elected at the 40th WFUNA Plenary Assembly on November 10, 2012 in Rio de…

YEREVAN--Women entrepreneurs from across Yerevan and Armenia's regions gathered at the American University of Armenia on November 24-25 for a two-day conference focused on uncovering new opportunities for women entrepreneurs. The conference, sponsored by the Armenian International Women's Association (AIWA), attracted over 90 graduates from the AIWA-AUA Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (WEP)--an AUA Extension program pioneered…

Famous Latin American physicist, Dr. Constantino Tsallis of the Brazilian Physics Research Center, lectured on November 23 at the American University of Armenia about the “Complexity in Natural, Artificial and Social Systems.” In his presentation, Dr. Tsallis shared a brief and general introduction to the main concepts behind his research and spoke extensively on the…

Petrosyan Varduhi. Access to Health Services in Times of Economic Downturn: the Case of Armenia. 15th European Health Forum Gastein. Bad Gastein, Austria, October 3-6, 2012. [oral presentation] Truzyan Nune, Petrosyan Varduhi, Grigoryan Ruzanna. How Decisions on Tuberculosis Care Utilization and Place of Work among Migrant Workers from Armenia Impact TB Health Outcomes. 34th Annual Meeting of the Society…