{"id":582,"date":"2012-08-30T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/?p=582"},"modified":"2012-08-30T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T09:43:20","slug":"aua-celebrates-twenty-years-of-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/aua-celebrates-twenty-years-of-advancement\/","title":{"rendered":"AUA Celebrates Twenty Years of Advancement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American University of Armenia (AUA) marked its twentieth anniversary with a Celebration of Education, a week-long series of events commemorating two decades of advancement. The celebration began with a talk by Dr. Hagop Panossian entitled “ARPA Institute for a Strong Armenia in the 21st Century<\/strong><\/a>,” and was officially launched with a press conference<\/a><\/strong> held at the Tesaket Press Club featuring AUA’s Founding President Dr. Mihran Agbabian, Founding Dean Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian, and President Dr. Bruce Bohgosian.<\/p>\n

The week included an art exhibit and concert<\/a><\/strong> featuring the artwork of Karen Alekyan and Hrach Vardanyan, both of Gyumri, and music of renowned singer-composer Lilit Pipoyan and her group; a full day trip to Shirak<\/a><\/strong> showcasing the AUA Turpanjian Rural Development Program and the Acopian Center for the Environment; an academic conference<\/a><\/strong> entitled Frontiers of Higher Education; a Celebration<\/a><\/strong> featuring H.E. Tigran Sargsyan, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and H.E. Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Science; the opening of a Photo Exhibit featuring the university’s twenty-year history; and a jubilee banquet<\/a><\/strong> which honored the remarkable contributions of Mrs. Elizabeth Agbabian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American University of Armenia (AUA) marked its twentieth anniversary with a Celebration of Education, a week-long series of events commemorating two decades of advancement. The celebration began with a talk by Dr. Hagop Panossian entitled “ARPA Institute for a Strong Armenia in the 21st Century<\/strong><\/a>,” and was officially launched with a press conference<\/a><\/strong> held at the Tesaket Press Club featuring AUA’s Founding President Dr. Mihran Agbabian, Founding Dean Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian, and President Dr. Bruce Bohgosian.<\/p>\n

The week included an art exhibit and concert<\/a><\/strong> featuring the artwork of Karen Alekyan and Hrach Vardanyan, both of Gyumri, and music of renowned singer-composer Lilit Pipoyan and her group; a full day trip to Shirak<\/a><\/strong> showcasing the AUA Turpanjian Rural Development Program and the Acopian Center for the Environment; an academic conference<\/a><\/strong> entitled Frontiers of Higher Education; a Celebration<\/a><\/strong> featuring H.E. Tigran Sargsyan, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and H.E. Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Science; the opening of a Photo Exhibit featuring the university’s twenty-year history; and a jubilee banquet<\/a><\/strong> which honored the remarkable contributions of Mrs. Elizabeth Agbabian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}