Gohar Marikyan is a Professor and an advisor of Mathematics and Computer Science at
the Metropolitan Center of
Empire State College of the State University of New York. She holds a
Ph.D. degree in Mathematics (research Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic) and 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 in 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 has extensively
studied the history and ideology of the Soviet Union, and was an eyewitness to its workings and
its collapse. After its collapse, she was involved, firsthand, in the development and
the operation of the very first nongovernmental organization in the Soviet Union – the Gtutiun
Armenian Benevolent 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 in the States as an
exchange scholare. Dr. Marikyan is also a certified teacher of religion of the Armenian
Apostolic Church.
Dr. Gohar Marikyan resides in New York City, in Manhattan. 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).