Topic: Science

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MIT News) — Noubar Afeyan PhD ’87, an inventor and parallel entrepreneur with a penchant for bold ideas, will deliver the address at the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony on[...]

By Ruben Mirzakhanyan The director of the Yerevan Research Institute of Mathematical Machines, General Fadey Sargsyan, together with the director of the Yerevan Brandy Factory, Mikhail G. Khanoyan, undertook and[...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Armenian school students have earned 5 medals, including 1 silver and 4 bronze, at the 53rd International Physics Olympiad held in Tokyo, Japan, on July 10-17, the Ministry[...]

LONDON/BRATISLAVA — Starmus, the global festival of science communication — the brainchild of astrophysicist Garik Israelian, PhD and Queen guitarist Sir Brian May, who also has a PhD in astrophysics[...]

BOSTON — The Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST), announced that it raised $500,000 at an event held at the Museum of Science in Boston on March 2. The[...]

GREAT NECK, N.Y. — Designing, writing, and preparing to teach students is usually something reserved for teachers during the summer, but South High senior Antranig Baghdassarian flipped the script this year.[...]

BOSTON — A new organization hopes to provide a framework through which innovators in Armenia — be they scientists, academics or artists — would be supported by their diasporan compatriots[...]

YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) — Nobel Laureate Prof. Ardem Patapoutian was in Armenia this week, receiving much attention, including an honorary degree and membership in the National Academy of Science.[...]

WATERTOWN — Scientific and technological prowess do not emerge from nowhere. A small, landlocked country without many natural resources, Armenia benefited from the broader Soviet system prior to its independence[...]

STOCKHOLM (DW) — David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Committee’s Thomas Perlmann said Julius and Patapoutian had “unlocked[...]