Affairs Committee Ed Royce (April 2014);
Rock singer Serj Tankian (April 2015);
Third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan (July 2015);
Former Governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic nominee for President Michael Dukakis (April 2016);
Democratic Representative from California Jim Costa (July 2016);
Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian (September 2016);
American-Armenian Nobel Laureate Ardem Patapoutian (June 2022);
Nobel Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier (September 2022);
NASA Engineer Nagin Cox (September 2022);
International Legal Expert Lyal S. Sunga (October 2023);
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg (November 2024);
== Politics ==
Several months after the violent crackdown of opposition protests on March 1, 2008, AUA, among other prominent institutions, refused to rent meeting space to opposition groups and democracy advocates under government pressure, according to Joseph Pennington, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan.
On May 2, 2018, during the Velvet Revolution, a …
