Support for American University of Armenia(AUA)
2022
AUA Nursing Program Online Library Resource and Study Aid
Founded in 1991, the American University of Armenia (AUA) is the first stand-alone, US-accredited institution of higher learning in the former Soviet republics. AUA provides undergraduate and graduate programs to students from Armenia, as well as more than twenty-three other countries. With an emphasis on academic excellence, independent thought, scholastic integrity, and fostering leadership, AUA prepares students to play a constructive role in the social and economic development of Armenia and beyond.
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing is a newly established undergraduate education that is available for nurses who have a diploma in nursing from a vocational level college and seek to advance into a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree.
An AHABA donation has enabled this burgeoning program to purchase a subscription to Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination, a valuable online resource database of videos that will be accessible to students as they prepare for their future careers. It contains more than 7 hours of head-to-toe and systems-based video footage featuring standardized patients that represent various age groups, backgrounds, and conditions. It allows students to prepare for class or review material before exams.
2022
AUA Research4Life Database
AHABA’s multi-year ongoing grant to AUA gives the university the ability to provide access to high-quality scientific journals and books to both students and faculty.
HINARI (Research4Life) is a valuable database for students and researchers in the AUA Turpanjian College of Health Sciences. It has a significant impact on empowering students with lifelong knowledge, literacy skills, as well as help in defining a research topic and then retrieving a vast amount of high-quality, authoritative, peer-reviewed, and reliable information. The Database Research4Life is being used by students and faculty throughout the year on and off campus.
Varduhi Petrosyan, Dean of CHS reports that “HINARI is the main database that is used in the Health Sciences for both the Masters of Public Health and the Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs, by faculty, students, and researchers. We are grateful for this.”
AUA’s Vice President of Development, Gaiane Khachatrian adds, “This valuable support in purchasing the Research4Life subscription for AUA improves our ability to deliver critical access to high-quality scientific journals and books. In addition to benefiting our students, this database is accessible to faculty who are conducting research. AUA is thankful to have this essential resource available to our academic community and we appreciate your ongoing support.”
2014-2020
Ongoing Support and Funding of AUA Soghikian Library
To honor Dr. Soghikian, in 2014 AHABA made a donation to upgrade the Soghikian Reference Library in the Department of Health Sciences at the American University of Armenia (AUA). Board member Molly Freeman, while traveling to Armenia, met with AUA library director, Satenig Avakian regarding their needs. The Board chose to donate $1500 for subscription to the World Health Organization HINARI (Health Inner-Network Access to Research Initiative) DatabaseIn. AHABA’s donations allow the library to fund its annual subscription to the HINARI Database. The HINARI database provides access to 14,000 medical and health journals, up to 46,000 ebooks, and various resources and electronic reference works on the latest developments in public health and other matters pertinent to health care professionals. Faculty and students in the School of Public Health use HINARI to access full-text articles not otherwise available to them. According to AUA Library Director, Bella Savakian, “faculty and students have made very good use of HINARI. It is also very important that the library provides web-based databases that allow our students and faculty to conduct their research off-campus”. AHABA has been continuing to fund the AUA Public Health Library since 2014, thus contributing to the scholarship and preparation of AUA students in Public Health, who in turn contribute to the health and wellbeing of Armenia.
