UCI professor, wife fund $100,000 endowment for Armenian Studies graduate students
Generous gift inspired by dedication to preserve ancestral history and language
January 28, 2022
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Armenian studies
School of Humanities launches 3 new centers for interdisciplinary research, programming
The School of Humanities has announced the creation of the Center for Armenian Studies; the Center for Knowledge, Technology, and Society; and the Center for Storytelling. “The three new centers will serve as a nexus for interdisciplinary research and programming,” said Dean Tyrus Miller. “All have particular resonance and value at this very moment in […]
January 28, 2021
Keeping a language alive
New classes aim to revive endangered dialect of Western Armenia
December 03, 2018
UCI chemistry professor, wife fund $100,000 endowment for Armenian studies research
Ara Apkarian, UCI Distinguished Professor of chemistry, and his wife, Alice, a retired Saddleback College chemistry professor, recently funded a $100,000 endowment, the Naneh Award for Graduate Research in Armenian Studies. Named in honor of their daughter, a postdoctoral researcher at Western Michigan University, this is the second significant gift the couple has bestowed on […]
August 23, 2018
Houri Berberian appointed to endowed chair in Armenian studies
Houri Berberian has been named the School of Humanities’ Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies. The $2 million endowed chair was established in 2014 by Vahe and Armine Meghrouni, with additional backing from the local Armenian American community and a $500,000 match from the UC Office of the President. Berberian joins UCI from California […]
October 03, 2016