“I spent many hours on my coursework. The time I was by myself could sometimes be hard on my family, but they understood what I was doing and why I was doing it,” says Daniel Aram Hampikian. Now, he has a PhD that represents all his years of hard work.

As a student, Daniel Aram Hampikian worked hard to excel academically. “I saw my studies as my career. You get rewarded for the effort you put into it,” says Daniel Aram Hampikian. For increasingly more young professionals, the knowledge of a high achieving education is important. Daniel Aram Hampikian set himself apart early in his studies as an undergraduate student.

In a time where many young adults are celebrating their freedoms, Daniel Aram Hampikian was hard at work. As a student, Daniel Aram Hampikian was assisted financially with the Hope Scholarship from 2002 to 2006. In 2005, he was awarded Georgia State University’s Faculty Scholarship Award. In 2006, Daniel Aram Hampikian was awarded both the Honors Thesis Competition Award and the Georgia State University Dean’s Key Award.

“I worked hard, I studied hard, but it was easy because I enjoyed my field of study. When I graduated from Georgia State University, I graduated with honors (summa cum laude),” says Daniel Aram Hampikian. He moved on from his focus on Confucius and Aristotle at Georgia State University because of what he considered to be the “limitations of historically oriented philosophy.” Historically oriented philosophy was too interpretive and not innovative enough. So he turned to the University of Miami to complete his other degrees.

Daniel Aram Hampikian completed both his master’s in philosophy and then his Ph.D. from the University of Miami. As a student, he wrote and presented papers regarding various topics, and in 2011 he presented “Animal Emotions” at the Cognition Conference in Montreal.