After four years of great anticipation, nearly 500 young professionals from 25 countries gathered in Spain’s capital of Madrid for AGBU FOCUS — a four-day conference dedicated to uniting and expanding the diverse Young Professionals (YP) network in a multi-faceted, dynamic city with profound, long-lasting takeaways, connections, and insight.
Today, these innocent Armenian families are isolated in a death trap so that even humanitarian relief groups, including AGBU, cannot intervene to alleviate the widespread starvation that has descended like a plague upon multiple generations.
Few names in modern Armenian academia carry as much authority, popularity and esteem among Armenians of all backgrounds as that of Armenian-American Professor Richard Gable Hovannisian.
In 110 years' time, AGBU will still exist, with future generations who will carry the torch in pursuit of its mission. Today, the future of Armenia and Artsakh is in front of us. It is up to us to conquer it.
110 years and yet, the links between AGBU and France go back well beyond this date, because the vision of its founders was forged by the French spirit, culture, and education.
On Tuesday June 6, the European Parliament hosted an event on the blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh, sponsored by MEP François-Xavier Bellamy, with young journalist Lika Zakaryan, author of 44 Days: Diary from an Invisible War, as guest of honor.
Yesterday, the Republic of Armenia’s leadership met with the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia to continue advancing the process of securing a regional peace agreement. Citing its rationale of making it possible for the citizens of Artsakh to be “guaranteed their security and rights,” Armenia has indicated that it intends to officially agree that Azerbaijan has sovereignty over the people of Artsakh.
When the names of the Nobel Prize winners for Physiology or Medicine for 2021 were announced, Ardem Patapoutian became an overnight celebrity for his groundbreaking discoveries that unlocked the secrets of human sensation. Professor Patapoutian has opened a new frontier as a pioneering American scientist, which also makes him a modern-day Armenian hero.
April 15, 2023 was an evening to remember for the Patapoutian family, as 600 guests assembled at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel to formally congratulate the first Nobel Prize winner of Armenian descent Ardem Sarkis Patapoutian, PhD. The pioneering scientist was recognized for his breakthrough research in the field of sensory biology, deemed by the international scientific community as a gamechanger in treating conditions related to touch, pain, blood pressure, and other clinical applications.
A few days after the world celebrated International Women’s Day, attendees from the East and West Coast and beyond gathered at the sprawling Convene conference spaces in downtown New York to pick up where they left off three years earlier at the first AGBU Women Shaping the World (WSTW) event.
