Professor Dr. Armen Der kiureghian president of the American University of Armenia one of the three founders of the AUA we sat down with Wally Sarkeesian founder of gagrule.net. and Mrs. Nelly Der kiureghianto discuss the AUA existence from inception to the present day, during the most difficult time of Armenian history after the first republic, Armenia went through a devastating earthquake, Declaring independence from soviet union, Karabakh war raging. while two professors Dr. Mihran Agbabian of the University of Southern California and Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, both professors of earthquake engineering and Professor Yuri Sargsyan the Rector of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. where thinking starting new western style University in Armenia, moreover all most all supported by donations.
