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О RASA В 2025 ГОДУ И ЗАДАЧАХ НА БУДУЩЕЕ

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With the help of RASA intern Alexei Epishev (UIC), RASA has launched the community website ARCA, which stands for Academic Russian-Speaking Community Abroad. This is an online platform designed to facilitate communication among scholars in Eastern European diasporas despite their differences in disciplines, waves of emigration, generations, and geographic locations (DEGG: Disciplines, Emigration Waves, Generations, Geographies).

ARCA is intended to support the development of Russian-language interdisciplinary scientific discourse, cooperation among diaspora groups, protection of academic freedoms, and defense of the reputation of science. In today’s uneasy geopolitical environment, we must strive to create additional spaces of solidarity for people of goodwill.

RASA invites various academic groups to join the platform. Each group will have its own space on the site, and news about its scholarly and public activities will also be posted there.

 

Videos from the First European Conference of the American RASA, an academic association that is becoming global, have been published. They are available on the RASA YouTube channel. The RASA leadership thanks the organizers of the Berlin conference — Alexander Libman, Andrei Yakovlev, and their assistants Vladislav Siyutkin and Natalia Butrimova — for their invaluable contribution to the success of our association!

 

George Gamow®  award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American physicist, Professor Georgy Antonovich Gamow (1904-1968) and to encourage members of the Russian-speaking scientific diaspora for outstanding achievements recognized by the wider scientific community, for 2025 is awarded to:

Anna Krylov professor of the University of Southern California “For her pioneering contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry, particularly the development of novel electronic structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species; for her leadership within the theoretical chemistry community; and for her advocacy of scientific integrity and academic freedom”.

Mikhail Iampolski, professor of the New York University “For his uniquely original contributions as a cultural theorist and commentator, whose work bridges literature, film, philosophy, and social theory; for the breadth and depth of his scholarship, which have reshaped the study of Russian culture and intellectual history; and for his influential critical voice in Russian and international intellectual life” .

Anna Krylov Mikhail Yampolsky
Anna Krylov, photo from the personal archive Mikhail Iampolski, photo from the personal archive

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RASA History Project

Alexander Kabanov

CEO Sasha Kabanov on science and life

A conversation with Sasha Kabanov (UNC Chapel Hill), nanomedic, president of the American Russian-Speaking Scientific Association (RASA) from 2018 to 2020, and its CEO. The first part of his story is dedicated to the time before RASA, his work in Russia, then in the United States, nostalgia, duty to his homeland, the launch of Russian Government’s mega-grants, and the struggle for high standards in the organization of science.

 Lyuba Varticovski

The Remarkable Life of Lyuba Varticovski

The RASA YouTube channel now features a conversation about the life of Lyuba Varticovski, one of the founders of the American Russian-speaking Medical Association (RAMA), the predecessor of RASA. She was born in Siberia to a family of Gulag prisoners, intellectuals from Romania. Her life journey was marked by incredible adventures.  

 
Igor Efimov

A Conversation with Igor Efimov

Why didn’t the Russian-American Science Association (RASA) collapse in the spring of 2022? What is the significance of its growth now, when scientific ties with Russia have been severed? How does democracy function in the academic community, and what is the future of Russian science? The second interview in RASA’s historical project features Igor Efimov, a renowned Russian-speaking American scientist and biomedical researcher from Northwestern University in Chicago. 

 Roald Sagdeev

Interview with Roald Sagdeev

We start this project by interviewing the outstanding American-Soviet physicist Roald Sagdeev, who was the director of the Institute for Space Research at the USSR Academy of Sciences during the late Soviet era. He has been living and working in the United States for over 30 years. Throughout these years, he has greatly contributed to fostering collaboration between American and Russian scientists.

 

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Legacy: A Collection of Essays

A Collection of Essays