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Biography
Gohar Marikyan is a Professor and the chair of the Department of Mathematics. She is also an
academic advisor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the
Empire State University of the State University of New York. She holds a
Ph.D. degree in Mathematics (research Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic) and an MS degree in Computer
Science (research master’s degree in Theory of Algorithms). Dr. Marikyan continues to actively
pursue her research in mathematical logic as it applies to computer science. She also is interested
in the history of math education as it applies to the development of teaching methodology. The results
and findings of her research have been presented at domestic and international
conferences and published
in a number of scientific peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Marikyan is the 2020 recipient of the Turnab Chair in Mentoring award and the 2012 recipient of the Susan H. Turben Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
Her work with students is in two broad areas: Mathematics and Computer Science.
In addition to these areas, she also teaches business-related math and computer courses. She conducts studies
in groups, one-on-one, on distance, blended, and online at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Concurrently, keeping up with advances in technology, Dr. Marikyan continues to create new
courses in mathematics and computer science for her students.
Born, brought up, and educated in Armenia under the Soviet system, Dr. Marikyan had to study the
history and ideology of the Soviet Union and was an eyewitness to its workings and its collapse.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, Dr. Marikyan got involved firsthand in the development and operation
of the very first nongovernmental organization in the Soviet Union – the Gtutiun Armenian Charitable Union –
as its information systems department head, liaison officer, and publicity director
(more...). She won a grant from the United States Information Agency’s Regional Scholar
Exchange Program and Freedom Support Act Fellowship to do research as an exchange scholar. Dr. Marikyan
also is a certified Oracle database administrator and has a Master of Science degree in teaching
religion of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Exchange Program and Freedom Support Act Fellowship to do research in the States as an
exchange scholare. Dr. Marikyan also is a certified Oracle database administrator and has a
Master of Science degree in teaching religion of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Dr. Gohar Marikyan resides in Manhattan, New York City. She is currently working on a novel titled
"I Wish I Could Touch You Again" and on a couple of short stories from the series "Life is Stranger
than Fiction." She also continues her research on Anania Shirakatsi’s 7th-century manuscript that
will culminate in "Anania Shirakatsi's Tvabanutiun: World's Oldest Manuscript On Arithmetic, Part 2."
The third book project is a colorful book on Armenian dolls
(see www.aaadolls.com).
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