The Faculty of Chemistry and Biology

The Faculty conducts courses in the following specialties:

With Bachelor’s degree programme:

Biology

Qualification - Bachelor in Biology

Physical Education and Sports

Qualification - Bachelor in Physical Education and Sports, a teacher

Physical Education and Sports Training

Qualification - Bachelor in Physical Education, a teacher

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management

Profession - Bachelor in Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Qualification – Bachelor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry

With Master’s degree programme:

Chemistry

Qualification – Master in Chemistry, a teacher of Chemistry

Biology

Qualification – Master in Biology, a teacher of Biology

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Qualification – Master in Pharmaceutical Chemistry

With Master’s degree programme in the distance learning system:

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management

Qualification – Master in Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management

The faculty of Chemistry and Biology has been working since 1969.

Nowadays, there are 115 students studying in this faculty of Chemistry and Biology in full-time learning system, and 210 students study in the distance learning system of this faculty.

The Faculty of Chemistry and Biology comprises the Chairs of Biology, Chemistry, Physical Education and Issues of Emergency situations, where Academicians, Doctors of Sciences, Candidates of Sciences and Associate Professors work. The Faculty has corresponding laboratories, educational cabinets, rifle range and sports grounds that make the academic process more interesting and productive.

Since 2015 the Chair of Biology has been cooperating with “TIM” in the framework of German GIZ programme in the field of man-made pollution research of the city Vanadzor. The Faculty cooperates with Austrian Red Cross office which is located in Vanadzor for the purpose of revealing the problems connected to global warming of the climate in Lori Region and for proposing the optimal ways of solving these problems.

In 2016 a Biomedical Research Center Laboratory was created in the Faculty, which is equipped with necessary devices and equipments for carrying out biomedical research. The center-laboratory gives opportunities to the Chairs of the Faculty to carry out research, to do experimental work related to the graduation work and the thesis of graduate and post-graduate students.

Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology is Zaruhi Vardanyan. She was born on the twenty-sixth of January, in 1962, in Kirovakan, in Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1984 she graduated from Kirovakan State Pedagogical Institute, from the Faculty of Biology. In 1995, she was Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, in 2003, Associate Professor, and in 2009, Doctor of Biological Sciences. Since 2007 she has been working at Vanadzor State University as the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology.

Since 2014 she has been the member of the working group of the programme called “VERITAS’ which organizes PhD post-graduate education, and since 2015 she has been the head of the programme.

In 2015, Z. Vardanyan with L. E. Bayramyan, who is lecturer at the Chair of Biology, Associate Professor and Doctor of Philology, have become the winner of the 1st and 2nd phases of the competition called "Open Competition for Development of Advanced Comprehensive Educational Programmes for the formation of a culture of healthy nutrition for students by putting emphasis on active teaching methods”, organized by Moscow Technological Institute of the Food Industry.

Since 2015, she has been a member of Vanadzor working group of the programme called “Community Development in South Caucasus” by cooperating with the team of the Austrian Red Cross Vanadzor branch.

She conducts the following courses: “Plant Physiology”, “The Diversification of Developmental Biology”, “Levels of organization of living systems”, “Methodology for problem solving”, “Forest Communities”. She studies the issues of botany, ecology and environmental protection. She is the author of eighty scientific papers and four academic manuals.

The academic programmes of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology

Index	The specialty	Download the academic programme (in rar format)
020200	“Biology”
021000	“Pharmaceutical Chemistry”
032100	“Physical Education and Sports”