The University of Connecticut has won a half- million grant to restart an Armenian studies program.
The gift is from Alice Norian who died five years ago. She once viewed an exhibit of Armenian rugs and other artifacts in the early 1980s at the university.
Norian was a long-time Enfield elementary school teacher who graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University. When she died with no heirs, she bequeathed 504 thousand dollars to U-Conn. The endowment is expected to be supplemented by a 252 thousand dollar state grant.
The new program will expand an exchange program, offer an annual lecture series, provide courses on culture and history and develop publications to help educate Americans about the southeast European country.
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