Moderna Therapeutics’ COVID-19 Vaccine Approved for Phase 2 Clinical Trial
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Biotechnology company Moderna Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, announced on May 7 that mRNA-1273, its vaccine candidate for COVID-19, has been approved by the Food and Drug...
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Remembering Dr. Matthew Movsesian (1954-2020)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine) – It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of Dr. Matthew Movsesian’s passing on Sunday, April 12 after his battle with...
View ArticleMelikian Joins US President to Commemorate 75th Anniversary End of World War...
WASHINGTON (Arizona Republic, Guardian, Washington Post, NYT, US Department of Defense) – Gregory Melikian was one of seven World War II veterans, ages 96 to 100, who joined President Donald Trump at a...
View ArticleTreasured Place in the Heart of the City, Celebrating What Unites Us!:...
BOSTON – “Armenian Heritage Park is a treasured place in the heart of the city” is often heard. During these many weeks of isolation during this COVID-19 pandemic, many are commenting on social media...
View ArticleTorgom Aftandil Kocharians (October 13, 1925-May 6, 2020)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Torgom Aftandil Kocharians died of heart failure at home on May 6, 2020. He was 94. He was born in Tehran, Iran, to Abraham and Mariam (Jerrahian) Kocharians. After graduating from...
View ArticleEvelyn Astorian: Caring Daughter, Sister, Mother, Grandmother
WATERTOWN – Evelyn Astorian of Watertown, Mass., born on March 27, 1930, daughter to her late parents George and Agnes Nason of Malden, Mass., passed away on May 8, 2020. She was the caring sister of...
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Chicago and Wisconsin Armenian Community Are Helping Each Other and Armenia...
By Harry A. Kezelian III Special to the Mirror-Spectator CHICAGO/RACINE, Wisc. – “Can I just add one thing before we go?” said Fr. Yeprem Kelegian, retired pastor of St. Mesrob Armenian Church in...
View ArticleArmenian Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Grapples with COVID-19 Epidemic,...
JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. — The Armenian Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (ANRC) has regularly been providing updates on its situation as it deals with the difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continuing...
View ArticleBayside Funeral Director Dies Following Long Battle with Illness
By Bill Parry BAYSIDE, New York (https://qns.com/) – He fought cancer valiantly for more than two decades, but on the eve of a new round of chemotherapy was about to begin, Edward D. Jamie Jr. lost his...
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Stand Up and Be Counted as Armenian in the US Census
All kinds of figures are bandied about concerning the numbers of Armenians living in the United States. Some say there may be as many as two million but in the 2010 US Census’s American Community...
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New College Graduates Take Uncertain Paths in COVID-19 Era
By Serena Hajjar Special to the Mirror-Spectator BOSTON – Which demographic has most innately felt the chaos wreaked by COVID-19? While the virus has certainly unsettled everyone’s lives in a multitude...
View ArticleModerna Vaccine Shows Promise
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BusinessWire, CNN, NYT, Businessinsider.com) – Moderna Therapeutics, the Cambridge-based biotechnology company cofounded and chaired by Dr. Noubar Afeyan, announced positive interim...
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Decennial Census Efforts Continue in Southern California with Much at Stake
GLENDALE, Calif. – Despite the restrictions on movement required to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the work of the 2020 US national census continues in Southern California, as well as throughout the...
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Cleveland’s Armenians During the COVID-19 Crisis
By Harry Kezelian Special to the Mirror-Spectator CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Armenian community is one of the smaller ones in the Eastern United States, but has not been silent during the current...
View ArticleAMAA Launches Aid Project for Lebanon
The Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA) this week issued a letter seeking help for the Armenian community in Lebanon, whose precarious fate was being battered by the fallout from the...
View ArticlePrisoner of the Hamptons: An Art Giant on Life in the Covid Age
By Katya Kazakina AMANGANSETT, N.Y. (Bloomberg News) – Right about now, Larry Gagosian, septuagenarian bad boy of the art world, should be surrounded by the rich and beautiful, doing rich and beautiful...
View ArticleThe Wax Pack Chronicles Baseball Card-Fueled Road Trip
By Dennis Waszak Jr. NEW YORK (AP) — Brad Balukjian tore open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chewed the stale, brittle bubblegum and then planned a road trip most sports fans could only dream...
View ArticleSevan Boghos-Deirbadrossian Wins Gulbenkian Foundation Prize for Teaching...
CANOGA PARK, Calif. – Sevan Boghos-Deirbadrossian, Armenian teacher at the Armenian General Benevolent Union Manoogian-Demirdjian School, recently was a winner of the Gulbenkian Foundation’s Prizes for...
View ArticleColorado State Capitol Khachkar Genocide Memorial Vandalized
DENVER – The Colorado state capitol khachkar memorial to the Armenian Genocide and to the victims of all crimes against humanity was vandalized with spray-painted graffiti on the night of May 29-30 in...
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Chicago Riots Threaten Armenian Businesses, Honorary Armenian Consulate and
CHICAGO – Protesting over the death of George Floyd deteriorated into looting in Chicago’s downtown and migrated into the suburbs over the weekend. Armenian-owned businesses and institutions were among...
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