Panel discussion, diplomatic game and educational quest: YSU SSS initiatives at COP17 As part of the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17), the YSU Student Scientific Society (SSS) organized a series of environmental and educational activities aimed at raising young people's awareness of biodiversity conservation and encouraging their participation in addressing environmental challenges. The activities, including a panel discussion, a diplomatic game and an educational quest, were held at the Armenian University Coalition for Biodiversity pavilion in COP17's Green Zone.
Student moot court competition on protecting Armenia's state interests begins at YSU The oral rounds of the first student moot court competition, titled "Protection of Armenia's State Interests", have begun at Yerevan State University. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Artavazd Gevorgyan, former Prosecutor General of Armenia, the competition is being held in cooperation between YSU, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
YSU students provide interpretation support to children from Gaza Karine Arsenyan and Elina Voskanyan, students at the YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, have volunteered as interpreters for children brought to Armenia from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment and their parents, helping the families communicate with medical staff.
YSU researchers publish findings on strange quark stars in international journals YSU physicists have investigated the properties of strange quark stars, examining their potential stability and maximum mass. The findings have been published in two international scientific journals, "Nuclear Physics B" and "Particles", both ranked in the Q1 quartile and indexed in the Scopus database.
YSU students explore AI applications in biomedical sciences Students from the YSU Faculty of Biology and Institute of Pharmacy have completed a course titled "Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences". The 36-hour program, led by Romain Topalian, a specialist invited from Germany, introduced participants to the Python programming language, data analysis and the fundamentals of machine learning.
YSU Associate Professor Margarit Petrosyan awarded silver medal Margarit Petrosyan, Associate Professor at the Chair of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology of the YSU Faculty of Biology, has been awarded the YSU Silver Medal in recognition of her many years of distinguished teaching and research at the university and on the occasion of her milestone birthday.
Literature helps us understand others and ourselves — Saeed Talajooy How do literature and film help us learn about other societies, understand people's values and reassess our own perceptions? We discussed these questions with Saeed Talajooy, a specialist in Persian literature and Iranian culture and a senior lecturer at the University of St Andrews.
From Mars exploration to interstellar space: YSU delegation visits NASA laboratory From searching for possible traces of ancient life on Mars to monitoring changes on Earth's surface, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is involved in several major missions exploring the solar system and Earth. While in California to attend the annual gathering of the Friends of YSU Foundation, a delegation from Yerevan State University visited the research center. The delegation was accompanied by YSU alumnus Lermont Khachikyan, Contract Technical Manager at JPL. The visit also focused on expanding opportunities for YSU students to gain international professional experience.
Springer publishes YSU-initiated scholarly volume "Transformative Economies" Springer, a leading academic publisher, has published "Transformative Economies: Spatial and Societal Perspectives", a scholarly volume developed at the initiative of the Yerevan State University Faculty of Economics and Management. Published in 2026, the book has four international editors, including Karlen Khachatryan, Dean of the YSU Faculty of Economics and Management and Associate Professor. The volume brings together 13 studies by 38 scholars from 12 countries, exploring the transformation of economic systems, human capital, institutional quality, innovation, sustainable development and territorial resilience.
From biodiversity conservation to joint research: Kobe delegation visits YSU As part of the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17), representatives of the Chair of Ecology and Nature Conservation at the YSU Faculty of Biology hosted a delegation from Kobe, Japan. The meeting focused on opportunities for Armenian-Japanese scientific and educational cooperation in biodiversity conservation, aquatic ecosystem monitoring and eDNA research.
