Date: February 12, 2013
Event Type: Seminar
Speaker: Vahe Kharazyan, Head, Instrumentation and Control Department, Yerevan Combined Cycle Power Plant (Yerevan JEK)
Venue: American University of Armenia
A seminar exploring the nuclear disasters at Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three-Mile Island was organized by the College of Science and Engineering and the AUA Acopian Center for the Environment. ...
Date: November 30, 2012
Event Type: International Scientific Symposium
Speakers: Saleem Ali and 12 national and international experts
Venue: American University of Armenia
International and local experts were in Yerevan on 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 ...
Date: November 28, 2012
Event Type: Seminar
Speaker: Artak Hambarian, Associate Director, College of Science and Engineering, American University of Armenia
Venue: American University of Armenia
More than 20 architecture and engineering students and professionals received certificates for completing a course on Solar Architecture organized by the “Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings” project of the UNDP’s ...
Date: November 9, 2012
Event Type: Seminar
Speaker: Lief Erickson, Deputy Chief, USAID Project Providing Support to Armenia’s Energy Sector
Venue: American University of Armenia
AUA’s College of Science and Engineering organized a seminar focusing on the environmental impact assessment of Armenia’s new nuclear power plant, featuring Mr. Lief Erickson, the Deputy Chief of the USAID ...
Date: October 25-26, 2012
Event Type: Networking Event
Venue: American University of Armenia
AUA faculty and researches joined colleagues from Armenia and Sweden for an international seminar at Yerevan State University focused on building cooperation between Swedish and Armenian universities.
The two day Swedish-Armenian Contact Seminar brought together more than 60 Armenian and 30 Swedish academics and researches to ...
Date: October 2012
Event Type: Workshop
Participant: Alen Amirkhanian, Director, AUA Acopian Center for the Environment
Venue: Karlsruhe, Germany
The American University of Armenia participated in an annual get-together of educators from around the world to discuss environmental and sustainability topics in the education sector. The International Greening Education Event (IGEE), held in Karlsruhe, Germany, provided participants ...
Date: May 3, 2012
Event Type: Seminar
Speakers: Margrit von Braun, Ronald Dobbin, Susan Spalinger
Venue: American University of Armenia
The AUA’s College of Health Sciences and Acopian Center for the Environment organized a Seminar on Lessons Learned from Hazardous Waste Sites from Around the World and a Panel Discussion on the Role of Safety, Health, ...
Date: September 2011
Event type: International Conference
Speakers: See program
Venue: American University of Armenia
The AUA Acopian Center for the Environment became a co-organizer of the International Conference “Biological Diversity and Conservation Problems of the Fauna of the Caucasus” participated by more than 150 conservationists and scientists from 9 countries. Results of the Conference are ...
Date: December 16, 2008
Event Type: Conference
Venue: American University of Armenia
The first conference on the use of GIS and Remote Sensing in Armenia was a big success. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are highly sophisticated computer programs which are used to analyze and store spatial data, produce maps, and make prognoses. ...
In 2006 the ECRC at the American University of Armenia, along with its EcoArmenia partners, started a company regarding a proposed new highway that would run through the middle of the Shikahogh Forest Reserve in southern Armenia, which is the unique habitat for variety of endangered flora and fauna.
In late 2004, the Ministry of ...