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Armenia U16 national team player Anthony Sargsyan has been named the Most Valuable Player of the FIBA U16 EuroBasket Division C, held in Yerevan.

Sargsyan played a pivotal role in leading Armenia to an unbeaten championship campaign, averaging 21.0 points, 14.8 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and an efficiency rating of 36.0 throughout the tournament.

In addition to earning MVP honors, Sargsyan was selected to the tournament’s All-Star Five, further cementing his status as one of the competition’s standout performers.

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Applications are now open for the Summer 2027 Israelyan Fellowship at Gladstone’s Library, a month-long residential fellowship supporting advanced work in Armenian studies, literature, and the social sciences. This is the inaugural year of what is intended to be an annual fellowship.

The Israelyan Fellowship provides writers, artists, and scholars with dedicated time and space to focus on a project that is already substantially underway. The fellowship is designed for applicants who can demonstrate significant progress on their proposed work and who seek an uninterrupted period of research or creative activity to bring their project to completion or to a major new stage.

The fellowship includes a fully funded 31-night residency at Gladstone’s Library, the United Kingdom’s premier residential library. Fellows receive accommodation in a private double en-suite room (single occupancy), breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout their stay, access to the library’s collections, facilities, and scholarly community, as well as a contribution toward travel expenses.

Applications are open to writers, artists, and scholars of any nationality working in Armenian studies or on Armenian themes broadly conceived.

The application deadline is October 15. Applicants will be notified of the selection results by December 1. The residency will take place during Summer 2027, with applicants invited to indicate their availability and flexibility.

Apply online.

Applications will be reviewed by a steering committee chaired by Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, and including Dr. Andrea Russell, Warden and Director of Gladstone’s Library.

Established by Souren A. Israelyan, the Israelyan Fellowship at Gladstone’s Library seeks to nurture and sustain Armenian intellectual and cultural traditions while inspiring new forms of scholarship and creative _expression_. Drawing on his own teenage dreams of studying and growing within the spiritual and scholarly environments of Armenian monasteries, Israelyan envisioned the fellowship as a way to connect scholars and writers with spaces that encourage reflection, research, and dialogue.

Gladstone’s Library was selected not only as the United Kingdom’s finest residential library but also because of its historic links between Armenians and William E. Gladstone, strengthening the fellowship’s mission of bridging past and present.

Applications may be submitted through the fellowship’s online application form. Applicants should upload their curriculum vitae, personal statement, project proposal, timeline, and two letters of recommendation for full consideration.

Questions about the fellowship may be directed to [email protected].

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SEATTLE — The Northwest Mahler Festival will showcase a collaboration of two acclaimed Armenian-American artists. Music Director Tigran Arakelyan will lead the festival orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 3 on Saturday, August 1, at 7 p.m. at the Shorewood Performing Arts Center.

As the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, this immense, transformative work spans nearly 100 minutes. Bringing the six-movement masterpiece to life demands a massive orchestral presence alongside an extraordinary vocal cast. The performance features mezzo-soprano Laurel Semerdjian as the soloist, alongside the Northwest Boychoir (Artistic Director Jacob Winkler) and a Women’s Chorus (Artistic Director Beth Ann Bonnecroy).

Conductor Tigran Arakelyan has been Music Director of the Northwest Mahler Festival since 2018, Arakelyan is an award-winning conductor known for his dynamic interpretations and visionary leadership.

Mezzo-Soprano Laurel Semerdjian is hailed for her “deep, velvety voice,” Semerdjian is a premier international soloist renowned for bringing profound emotional depth to Mahler’s vocal movements.

Tickets are available online. Early booking is highly recommended due to limited seating.

Founded to celebrate the expansive works of Gustav Mahler, the Northwest Mahler Festival brings together regional musicians, vocalists, and choruses every summer. Learn more online.

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A groundbreaking study published in the latest issue of Nature has confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s key predictions with unprecedented precision, with Armenian astrophysicist Professor Vahagn Gurzadyan among the international team of researchers behind the achievement.

The paper, titled “LARES-2 Satellite Measures Frame-Dragging Effect Around the Earth,” reports the most accurate measurement to date of the frame-dragging phenomenon – a subtle effect predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, in which a rotating massive body such as Earth drags the fabric of spacetime around with it.

Professor Gurzadyan, head of the Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics at the A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute), is one of the study’s co-authors. The laboratory participates in the international LARES mission, a collaboration involving the Italian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and several leading scientific institutions.

The research is based on data collected by the LARES-2 satellite, launched in 2022, together with observations from the earlier LAGEOS and GRACE satellites. According to the researchers, LARES-2’s optimized orbit, extremely low surface-to-mass ratio, and highly uniform retroreflector distribution enabled scientists to measure Earth’s frame-dragging effect with a relative uncertainty of just one part in a thousand – an order-of-magnitude improvement over previous measurements in the Solar System.

The findings provide one of the most stringent confirmations yet of Einstein’s general theory of relativity in the near-Earth environment. They also place strong constraints on alternative theories of gravity that predict deviations from general relativity, including scalar-tensor models such as Chern-Simons gravity.

Beyond its significance for fundamental physics, the research has practical implications for geophysics. The combined analysis of the LARES-2 and LAGEOS satellites improves the determination of Earth’s lunisolar tides and contributes to more precise studies of the planet’s gravitational field.

The study has attracted widespread international attention. Scientific American highlighted the findings in an article titled “The Earth Is Dragging Spacetime Around Its Orbit, Just as Einstein Predicted,” describing the LARES-2 measurements as among the most precise ever made of the frame-dragging effect. The research has also been covered by Ars Technica, Italy’s Rai Radio 3 and MeteoWeb, Russia’s TASS news agency, and other international media outlets.

The publication marks another high-profile international scientific achievement involving Professor Gurzadyan. In September 2025, Nature Partner Journals – Heritage Science published a study co-authored by Gurzadyan and archaeologist Arsen Bobokhyan on Armenia’s unique vishapakars (dragon stones), research that also received extensive international media coverage.

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