AIWA Scholarship Awards – 2010-2011

Announced May 8, 2010 at the AIWA Annual Meeting

Learn more on our scholarships page.

 

 

 

LUCY KASPARIAN AHARONIAN GRADUATE AWARDS: $4,000 each

 

Awarded by AIWA in partnership with the Society of Women Engineers

 

 

Tsovina Chugaszyan, Yerevan

Media Informatics

Graduate: BA in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Yerevan State University Continuing MS program at RWTH Aachen, the largest University of Technology in Germany.

 

Ani Nersisyan, Yerevan

Physics

Graduate: Yerevan State University, 2010

Entering MS program ETH Zurich. Switzerland

 

Yeva Sargsyan, Yerevan

Architectural History

Graduate: Yerevan State University (BS in Architecture)

Currently at the University of Malmo, Sweden, studying Anthropology

Entering Master of Architectural History program, University College, London

 

 

 

LUCY KASPARIAN AHARONIAN UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS: $3,000 each

 

Awarded by AIWA in partnership with the Society of Women Engineers

 

 

Talar Kachechian, Fresno

Biology

Entering Senior Year at University of Maryland; plans to attend Medical School

 

Sofia Kehaian Pereira, Madrid

Mechanical Engineering

Entering Senior Year at Lehigh University, enrolled in the integrated Business and Engineering Honors program.

 

 

 

Carolann s. Najarian SCHOLARSHIPS -  5 awards @ $1,000 each

 

Shushan Avagyan – native of Yerevan, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at Illinois State University, Bloomington. A graduate of Melkonian Institute in Cyprus and recipient of several awards, she is currently a graduate teaching assistant and has published several works of both fiction and non-fiction. She was the translator for the AIWA bilingual publication of the poems of Shushanik Kurghinian titled I Want to Live.

 

Dara Hourdagian – born in New Jersey, graduate of John Hopkins University with a BA in International Relations, she has been working for the National Wildlife Federation in Washington and plans to return to school to earn a Master’s degreed in Energy and Environment. She has studied abroad in France and Germany, and among her volunteer activities include service at Camp Sinanoush orphanage in Yeghegnadzor, Armenia.

 

Anita Issagholyan – born in Hollywood, received her BA in Political Science & Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine and is working toward her Master of Science in Global Affairs at New York University. Her special field of interest is in international law and human rights abuses including genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. She plans in the short term to work for an international organization and eventually to pursue a PhD and teach.

 

Tamar Palanjian – native of Providence, R. I., she is a graduate of Wheaton College and is currently in her first year of a 2-year MS program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. In  2005 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Armenia, where she conducted field research on youth involvement in civil society, and remained a year in Armenia to coordinate a Youth Program there. She subsequently worked for Mercy Corps, a Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, before entering graduate school.

 

Nazig Tchakarian – native of Yambol, Bulgaria, and graduate of the National Music School in Sofia, Bulgaria, she received her BA in violin performance from Louisiana State University and Masters from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently pursuing a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree at Stony Brook University in New York, which requires her to perform often in chamber music and orchestra concerts as well as solo recitals.

 

 

 

AGNES MISSIRIAN SCHOLARSHIPS – 2 @ $1,000 each

 

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz – native of Bronxville, NY, graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Comparative Literature, and entering a degree program in Armenian Studies uner the direction of Dr. Boghos Levon Zekiyan at the University of Venice. She is currently a volunteer in Armenia with Birthright Armenia and the Armenia Volunteer Corps.

 

Alana Yoel – native of Radnor, PA. Will be entering her Senior Year at Carnegie Mellon University, with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Cognitive Science with a concentration in Robotics. Active in organizations such as the Armenian Students Association, she already designed modular snake robots during various internships.

 

LUCY KASPARIAN AHARONIAN AWARD - $1,000

 

 

Laura Dabagian, born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Medicine

Accelerated BS/MD Program, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey

 

 

 

ROSE “AZAD” HOVANNISIAN SCHOLARSHIP - $500

 

 

Narini Badalian – native of Boston. A graduate of Melkonian Institute in Cyprus, she studied History and Literature at UMass Boston and the American University of Paris and served an internship as a student journalist at the United Nations in New York.. She intends to enter the 3-year JD program at Northeastern University School of Law in the fall.

 

 

 

ZAROUHI Y. GETSOYAN SCHOLARSHIP -- $500

 

 

Ani Burr  -- native of Glendale, CA Studied Graphic Design at California State University, Northridge, and Pre-Nursing at Pasadena City College. She is a founding member and Executive Assistant of “In His Shoes Ministries,” a non-profit organization which raises awareness and assists victims of hunger and genocide.