YEREVAN--Ani Khachatryan is a recent graduate in biophysics from Yerevan State University. She develops computer simulations to predict the results of genetic mutations without the need for experimentation on live subjects.
The field is an emerging area in cancer detection and prevention research. In her spring 2017 semester, she participated in a US State Department-sponsored exchange program with the University of Memphis, which helped expose her work to the American academic community. Her
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Armenia is neither Norway nor Kuwait. Almost 30% of the country live in poverty, 5 to 10% in extreme poverty. If they are going to pay for this sort of projects then it has to be justified. The scholarship program has been working now for years. I would like to know how many of these young people who got scholarship have returned to Armenia, how many of those who returned actually work in their fields. It makes sense if they designate the scientific and technological fields that are needed in the country and help those students who want to study in those fields. Later, they can go back to Armenia and work in those fields. That could be a perfect investment but I am not sure if that has been the case so far.
Well, I just don’t understand why they don’t learn German or French and go study in France or Germany. Both Germany and France offer almost free education. There is no need to study in Anglo Saxon universities where education is very expensive. In France and Germany you pay no more than 500 euros per year instead of 50.000 per year for Anglo Saxon universities. Armenia should not waste money on these students, because if they are really that smart why don’t they learn German or French in order to save Armenia’s money? That money could be used for creating businesses and therefore new work places.
For every student that Luys helped, there were two others whom it screwed over by conveniently finding an excuse not to honor its commitment and pay the scholarship. The program should be closed down, provided that it gives appropriate notice so that students (like the ones in this article) who relied on Luys’s promises don’t find themselves screwed over.