by Orsolya Doricsak AAANews Blog 05/02/2014 Hovann Simonian and Peter Hrechdakian, administrators of the Armenian DNA Project, delivered the 18th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture, titled “DNA and the Origin of People: The Armenians” on Tuesday, April 22 at the Library of Congress, in Washington, DC. By reaching thousands of years into the past, the project aims to find genetic traces of both the ancient peoples whose descendants make up the current Armenian population (

Yesterday, renown author Ronald Grigor Suny visited the Armenian Assembly of America HQ in Washington, D.C. Pictured L-R are Dr. Michael Gelb of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Armenian National Institute (ANI) Director Dr. Rouben Adalian, Dr. Ronald Suny, University of Michigan Professor on a visiting fellowship at USHMM, and Assembly Executive Director Bryan Ardouny. #Genocide #holocaust #History #ArmenianAssemblyofAmerica #USHMM #universityofmichigan #DC #Armen