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Staff Article Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program was selected to receive the Provost’s Excellence in Teaching Award for Faculty Service. The formal announcement of the award was made by Dr. Alexander Gonzalez, Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at a reception honoring the recipient. The Faculty Service Award was one of four awards for Excellence in Teaching ...

    Staff Article University of California Berkeley has decided upon Dr. Dickran Kouymjian as the second Saroyan Professor of Armenian Studies. The endowed chair, officially called the The William Saroyan and Krouzian Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies, bring a distinguished Armenian specialist to the Berkeley campus in each fall semester to offer a course in his or her area ...

In a moving press conference on April 8, California State University, Fresno President, Dr. John Welty, formally announced the gift of $300,000 made by Victoria and Henry Kazan of Juno Beach, Florida for the establishment of the Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Professorship in Modern Armenian and Immigration History. The Kazans, long time residents of Long Island, were present with members ...

Dr. Ludmila Haroutunian, Chair of the Department of Sociology of Yerevan State University, was a special guest of the Armenian Studies Program, the Department of Sociology, and the Women’s Study Program of Fresno State from Thursday, February 22 through Tuesday, February 27. Dr. Haroutunian was invited by the Armenian Studies Program of Fresno State to spend a week in Fresno ...

BARLOW DER MUGRDECHIAN–ADVISOR Yerevan State University and State Engineering Institute of Armenia officials were in Fresno for a two-day visit, February 13-14, with Fresno State officials. The Armenian Studies Program hosted the delegation, whose visit and itinerary were developed with the assistance of Dr. Harold Haak, President Emeritus of Fresno State, who deserves special recognition for his participation. The officials ...

STAFF REPORT The immediate reaction towards Ara Dolarian’s exibition Interior Energy Fields, currently at the Fresno Art Museum, February 13 through March 31, is the power of his scale and the movement he creates. Dolarian leaves the representational attributes to the audience. “People say they look like palm trees or the ocean,” explains the artist, “that’s okay. To me it ...

KAREN KARABIAN–STAFF WRITER Fresno’s Armenian youth were united in one place at one time. Children, as young as five, gathered inside St. Paul’s church hall. They sat among older brothers and sisters, they sat beside my fellow college classmates. We were all drawn together for one reason — to witness the Catholicos of Armenia. St. Paul’s rally had already begun ...

TINA ATTASHIAN–STAFF WRITER Having the opportunity to listen or actually meet His Holiness Karekin I was a first time experience for many of the youth at Fresno State. Talking to Fresno State students, His Holiness’ visit created a lot of thoughts and emotions about Christianity. Vahan Balekian, a junior at CSUF and member of ASO stated, ” Karekin I really ...

JACUELINE ARIKIAN–STAFF WRITER His Holiness Karekin I visited California State University, Fresno to deliver a message of religious education and revival. He centered his speech around the importance of educating Armenians in the homeland, where Christian education has been virtually nonexistence over the past several years. “Fortunately faith has been kept in the hearts of the Armenian people,” said the ...

MIKE POGOSIAN–STAFF WRITER On the night of February 22, 1996, at St. Paul Armenian Church, there was a gathering. The gathering was for Mark Arax and the signing of his book, In My Father’s Name a Family, a Town, a Murder. When you walked into the hall there was an overwhelming feeling. There was warmth, community, and most of all ...