July 5, 2007 Hi all, I have already spent one month in Yerevan, Armenia, a place I had never heard of until my friend Lisa sent me a job announcement (she sends all the unusual announcements to me, she informs me) for the position of Director of the Environmental Conservation and Research Center (ECRC) of the American University of Armenia. The notice suggested that a working knowledge of Russian or Armenian was a big plus although AUA is an affiliate of the University of California, Berkeley so professors teach classes in English. It turns out that the Provost of the entire UC system is also (by charter) the chair of the board of trustees of AUA. I knew when I arrived at the airport (which is absolutely new and designed to have all arrivals walk
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