The “2020 Şirin Tekeli Research Awards” organized by Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (Su Gender) in memory of Şirin Tekeli, who had conducted pioneering work on democracy, academic freedom, gender equality, and feminism, were presented to their winners. The winners of the research awards, given since 2017 in order to preserve, share, and diversify the rich heritage left by Şirin Tekeli, were announced as part of the Şirin Tekeli Research Award Ceremony and Conference which took place online this year. 

The Research Awards given by Sabancı University Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (Su Gender) in memory of scholar Şirin Tekeli, who had conducted pioneering work on democracy, academic freedom, gender equality, and feminism, were presented to their winners with an online conference.  SU Gender has been organizing the Şirin Tekeli Research Award Ceremony and Conference since 2017 in order to contribute to the preserving, sharing, and diversification of the rich heritage left by Şirin Tekeli.

Ayşe Akalın-Demet Lüküslü, Yonca Cingöz, Gülçün Con Wright, and Füsun Kökalan Çımrın were awarded the Şirin Tekeli Research Award for supporting and encouraging gender research in Turkey.

Applications of doctoral students and researchers who had completed their doctoral studies no more than 15 years ago were accepted for the award given for the fourth time this year. Research proposals were evaluated by an intercollegiate selection committee on the basis of academic criteria.

The conference, which brings together authors and researchers in the field of gender and women's studies, took place online this year. Speaking at the opening of the conference, Hülya Adak, the Director of SU Gender, said: “This year, we are having our first online award ceremony and conference. We started to hold the conference in 2017, the year Şirin Tekeli passed away. We want to expand our topics a little more next year. We hope that these awards focusing on the social sciences and humanities will be supplemented with new awards on climate justice, disabilities, and gender studies. Over the past 3 years, we have supported 27 studies. We want to compile these studies as a book next year and publish them in 2021 or later.”

As part of the opening ceremony, Ayşe Gül Altınay, a Faculty Member at Sabancı University and the former Director of SU Gender, had an online interview with Füsun Ertuğ, one of the founders of the Women's Works Library and Information Center Foundation. Noting that it is an honor to come together, even in an online environment, to commemorate Şirin Tekeli, whose role and place in the feminist movement are very important, Ayşe Gül Altınay pointed out the role of Füsun Ertuğ in the feminist movement. Altınay said, “This year, we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of two very important institutions of the feminist movement in Turkey, the Library of Women's Works and the Purple Roof. We are very grateful to everyone who founded and preserved the Women’s Works Library and kept it alive as a very valuable research, archive, and meeting place for all of us. Füsun Ertuğ is a researcher, activist, and archivist who has made a significant contribution to the creation of the visual and written archive of the feminist movement since the early 80s. It is a great honor and joy to be commemorating Şirin Tekeli with Füsun Ertuğ, who have conducted a wide range of pioneering works from creating a visual archive of Solidarity March Against Beating and Carie Festival held in March 1987 to creating the Women's Works Library with Şirin Tekeli and telling the story of the creative relationship that women in different regions of Turkey established with medicinal plants and soil through ethnobotanical research.”

Füsun Ertuğ stated in her speech that it was very meaningful for Sabancı University to give such an award on behalf of Şirin Tekeli and said:

“A gift to Şirin Tekeli's efforts to support scientific research. It is really important that Şirin Tekeli brings us all together and ensures institutionalization. Today, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of both the Women's Works Library and Information Center Foundation and Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation. The library is a joint achievement of the women's movement. Many women who are pioneers of women's movements, especially Şirin, donated their private archives to us. Amazing results will be achieved when researchers start working on them first-hand. This, in turn, will reveal how rich the shared heritage of women in Turkey is.”

LAST YEAR’S AWARD WINNERS SHARED THEIR RESEARCH RESULTS

As part of the conference, two separate panels were held in which researchers who won the Şirin Tekeli Award last year shared their works. On the first panel, the following researchers shared their results: Sezen Bayhan – “The Evolution of Gendered-Militarized National Identity Building in Textbooks and Curriculum", Z. Selen Artan – “Darülbedayi's “other” Women: Theatre and Social Memory from The Ottoman Era to The Republic”, Derya Acuner - “Notes from The First Year of A Study on The Political Connotations of Fabric in Turkish Contemporary Art.”

On the second panel of the conference, the following researchers who had won the Research Incentive Award last year shared their results: Burcu Binbuğa – “The Ecology Struggle from The Ecofeminist Perspective”, Pınar Karababa Demircan – “Intersecting and Evolving Forms of Women's Labor: Examples of Silk Carpet and Kutnu Weaving”, Merve Koç – “Experiences of Masculinity in The Normative Body: The Discourse of Hegemonic Masculinity and Dwarf Men”, Özlem Ezer - “The Religion and Beliefs Living in The Narratives of Syrian Refugee Women.”

The conference ended this year with an online ceremony where the winners were presented with their awards.

The “Life Hats Workshop” was held on 28 November 2020, Saturday in cooperation between Sabancı University and Teacher Network to facilitate the adaptation of teachers to school after the pandemic. 

The teacher training workshop of the Adaptation to School Kit in the New Period created by the Teacher Network Psychological Counseling and Guidance Branch Group took place online with the participation of 25 psychological counselors in cooperation with Sabancı University. 

Psychological counselors will be able to implement the lesson of the training digitally or physically in their own schools after the “Life Hats Workshop” held by Kubilay Özaydın, Muhammet Ali Mert, Sibel Tosuner, and Özge Güvenç Özsaka from the Creators for Change to ensure that teachers are able to meet their own social and emotional needs, which stood during the epidemic period.  

Teacher Network is a network of sharing and cooperation where teachers come together with their colleagues and people and institutions from different disciplines. Click here for detailed information about Teacher Network.

Click here for detailed information about the Life Hats Workshop. 

Öğretmen Ağı, öğretmenlerin, meslektaşları, farklı disiplinlerden kişi ve kurumlarla bir araya gelerek güçlendiği paylaşım ve işbirliği ağıdır. Detaylı bilgi için tıklayın.

Yaşam Şapkaları Atölyesi hakkında detaylı bilgi için tıklayın. 

1931 born Ayvalık-based artist Teoman Madra’s extensive artworks including photographs, video, multimedia, and performance works produced from 1960 to 2000, have been on a comprehensive archiving process that is recently initiated by the academician and artist Selcuk Artut. Madra is considered among the pioneers of the Media Arts stream in Turkey. 

In this context, many recent storage media such as slides, negative films, VHS tapes, DVDs that contain Madra's works will be transported to the contemporary data storage platforms on the cloud.  Artut aims to organize this archive with today's technologies and present it to the interest of the art scene.

Following the completion of the first stage of the work of organizing the archive of Madra in Gate27's Ayvalık guest house, the second stage continues in the BM Contemporary Art Center Archive in Istanbul. The productions of media art based on the Fluxus and Zero movements of the 1960s constitute an important role in the contemporary art. 

In this context, Teoman Madra archive also constitutes a source of crucial importance for the related work accomplished in Turkey. You can follow Teoman Madra's archive work on teomanmadra.artworks Instagram account.

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Sabancı University Engineering and Natural Sciences faculty member Michel Lavrauw, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief in the Elsevier journal: "Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A". 

As one of the two chief editors of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A (JCTA), Michel Lavrauw will be responsible for all papers published in the journal. Further responsibilities include the Aims and Scope of the journal, the Editorial Board, and possible Special Issues. 

About Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A

The Journal of Combinatorial Theory was founded in 1966 and split into two parts in 1971 as the field grew rapidly: Series A and Series B. The Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, is one of the premier journals in its area and sets very high standards for publication. Only papers which meet these high standards proceed to a phase of review which involves a detailed refereeing process.

The Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, publishes original mathematical research concerned with theoretical and practical aspects of combinatorics in all branches of science. The journal is primarily concerned with finite and discrete structures, designs, finite geometries, codes, combinatorics with number theory, combinatorial games, extremal combinatorics, combinatorics of storage, and other important theory/applications of combinatorics. It is a valuable tool for mathematicians and computer scientists, and for scientists working in information theory. Manuscripts accepted by the journal are generally expected to solve or make a significant step towards a solution of an important open problem, to develop a new proof technique, or to substantially advance our knowledge in some other way.

Please click for further information: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-combinatorial-theory-series-a

ALL COUNTRIES MUST ACT IN CONCERT TO ACHIEVE NET ZERO CARBON EMISSION BY 2050

Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) held a webinar titled “A New Era in Global Energy and Climate Policies: What is Next with the New US Administration?”. Introductory remarks were made by Sabancı University Founding Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı, followed by International Energy Agency Director Dr. Fatih Birol, who shared the “Global Perspective” on energy and climate relations. The guest of honor of the event was Prof. Ernest J. Moniz, who served as the 13th Secretary of Energy under the Obama Administration.

 Saying that the new US administration would implement an extensive policy in climate change and clean energy technologies, Prof. Moniz stated, “This fight is decisive for reaching the net zero emission target. It is a crucial action. Everyone in the Biden Administration has joined forces to make this a reality."

Also speaking in the webinar, International Energy Agency (IEA) Director Dr. Fatih Birol stated the importance of innovation and clean energy solutions as a global approach to fighting climate change, saying "One of two vehicles sold worldwide must be electric if we are to achieve zero emissions.”

Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) held a webinar titled “A New Era in Global Energy and Climate Policies: What is Next with the New US Administration” on Tuesday, February 23. In her introductory remarks to the webinar, Sabancı University Board of Trustees Founding Chair Güler Sabancı expressed her delight that IICEC held this special webinar with distinguished speakers to take the lead in the discussion of energy and climate issues at just the right time. Güler Sabancı continued:

“I owe personal thanks to Secretary Moniz, who is with us here today, for inviting me to the forward-looking MIT Energy Initiative founded under his distinguished academic leadership. His tenure as US Secretary of Energy in the Obama Administration was illustrious: has had extraordinary success in propagating clean energy, science, innovation and technology, while also earning strategic wins. I would like to thank Secretary Moniz for his support in Sabancı University and IICEC, and for joining us from the United States at a very early time for him to avail us of his extraordinary wisdom and observations on a critical subject that is high on the agenda of the new US administration.”

Güler Sabancı thanked Dr. Fatih Birol and all speakers joining the webinar, emphasizing the leading role that the IEA has been playing under the Directorship of Dr. Birol in the transformation to clean energy across the world, continuing, “Just recently, Dr. Birol announced the first comprehensive roadmap that the International Energy Agency would prepare for the global energy industry to show the path to achieving net zero emission by 2050. Above all, this special IICEC webinar is doubly important because it comes right after Dr. Fatih Birol’s address to the US Energy and Natural Resources Commission.” 

NEW IICEC PROJECT: TURKEY ELECTRIC VEHICLES OUTLOOK 

Güler Sabancı said that energy and climate were among special and priority interests of Sabancı University, which was why IICEC was established 10 years ago to act as a common platform for policymakers, the industry and academia to take consistent steps towards a better future. Reminding IICEC’s work in a "Triangle of Success" with policymakers, the industry and academics to issue the Turkey Energy Outlook report, Güler Sabancı said, “This report met a crucial need in the Turkish energy sector and became a work of reference for all stakeholders. I am delighted to see IICEC grow and gain influence. Another ambitious project by IICEC this year will be the Turkey Electric Vehicles Outlook. The report will provide a comprehensive analytical perspective into electric vehicles and the e-mobility ecosystem and growth potential in Turkey. The report is due for this fall."

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO CONTINUE FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE

Former US Secretary of Energy Prof. Ernest J. Moniz noted that the US was rejoining the Paris Agreement under the Biden Administration, continuing, “We must fulfill our international commitment. We have April 22 Earth Day just ahead of us. We will take joint action to achieve the target of net zero carbon before COP26 Glasgow.” Prof. Moniz said that the new US administration would implement an extensive policy in climate change and clean energy technologies, and set national commitments to fight climate change. Prof. Moniz stated, “This fight is decisive for reaching the net zero emission target. It is a crucial action. Everyone in the Biden Administration has joined forces to make this a reality. Great steps will be taken institutionally. Technology and innovation will receive ample support."

Saying that the path to the Glasgow COP26 climate conference in November will be an exciting one and emphasizing that net negative emissions must be achieved within the century, Prof. Moniz emphasized the rapid growth of electric vehicles in the US, remarking "This growth is not only because we have an administration that encourages electric vehicles. The industry is leaping in bounds as well. So buckle up, because the electric vehicle revolution is about to take a turn into the fast lane."

ZERO EMISSIONS REQUIRES THAT ONE OF TWO VEHICLES SOLD IS ELECTRIC

In his keynote titled "Global Perspective," International Energy Agency (IEA) Director Dr. Fatih Birol spoke about the leading dynamics, opportunities and necessary steps in energy and climate worldwide. Dr. Fatih Birol noted that energy and climate change were closely related, continuing, “We cannot solve the climate problem before addressing issues in the energy industry. The energy industry is responsible for 80% of the emissions that cause climate change." Emphasizing that the destructive impact of climate change would be several times worse than COVID-19, Dr. Fatih Birol said, “There are promising developments such as renewable energy. Many countries including Turkey have advanced greatly in this area. A lot of countries put special incentives for clean energy in their economic packages. However, countries doing a good job is not enough to solve the problem. We need to come up with a global solution." 

Saying that a number of governments have made commitments to achieve zero emissions by 2050 and intend to reach an agreement in the COP26 summit to be held in November to lead the world on the right path, Dr. Birol pointed out that the IEA would reveal the first-ever global roadmap for net zero emission in May, and that everyone would benefit from the world achieving net zero by 2050, continuing:

“The magic word in the relationship between energy and climate is innovation. We need extensive, comprehensive innovation to bring all the required technologies to the market. It is impossible for this tidal wave not to hit Turkey. The industry needs to take lessons from developments around the world. We need to read the game in real time, and prepare our economy and energy industry accordingly."

Placing special emphasis on electric vehicles as a means to reduce worldwide emissions to zero, Dr. Birol said, “One of two vehicles sold must be electric if we are to achieve zero emissions. Right now, only three out of 100 vehicles sold are electric at best. Some countries have already banned the sale of conventional vehicles; others may soon follow suit. Electric vehicles are garnering attention in Turkey, but it is not there yet. Turkey took important steps with TOGG, but the Turkish automotive industry needs to think about what more it can do about the electric vehicle revolution.” 

BUSINESS PANEL

The event continued with a panel on business moderated by Sabancı University Vice President Professor Dr. Fuat Keyman. Panelists were Borusan Holding CEO Erkan Kafadar, Shell Turkey Country President Ahmet Erdem and TÜSİAD Energy Working Group Chair Kıvanç Zaimler.

Borusan Holding CEO Erkan Kafadar noted that automotive was Turkey's number one export, saying: “We all need to work together to transform the internal combustion engine industry. It is crucial that we create a shared definition of transformation in the industry, government and university. The transformation must be supported with a network of charging stations and electricity distribution. There will be a general need for financing to undertake transformation in energy. We have to have access to low-interest, long-term eco funding programs offered by Europe. Eco funding is what will support technology and innovation.”

Shell Turkey Country President Ahmet Erdem said that Shell’s approach to energy transformation was clear, and that they had drawn the roadmap to reach the zero emission target in the Paris Agreement. Stating that they intended to supply more clean energy to the world, Ahmet Erdem continued, “The energy system will transform one way or another - the question is when. All industries, all countries will progress at their own pace, but we must act quickly. All countries must do this. All companies and institutions must envision shared roadmaps that will lead to zero emission. We need predictable policies in areas that require long-term investment. Key stakeholders must act in unison to achieve net zero emission.”

TÜSİAD Energy Working Group Chair Kıvanç Zaimler stated their objective at the TÜSİAD Energy Working Group was to develop competitive, innovative, environmentally compatible, specific and actionable recommendations to support sustainable growth in energy, continuing: “The transformation and development of the energy sector in Turkey and the world goes on at a rapid pace. The energy ecosystem is growing all the time. As the transformation occurs, we need to consider all aspects of it together: the consumer, innovation, and environment. As megatrends quicken the pace of transformation with climate and technology, the notion of sustainability rises to the foreground. Climate and technology are at the core of energy transformation, which started with three Ds: decarbonization, digitalization, and distributed energy. In the TÜSİAD working group, we support this transformation under four subjects that we communicate with focus on sustainability. First is market-focused efficient growth. Second is renewable transformation. Third is technology, and fourth is consumer. We strive to support a safe and sound transformation by discussing and sharing these issues with public authorities and the general population."

Record of the “A New Era in Global Energy and Climate Policies: What is Next with the New U.S. Administration?” webinar can be watched below. 

4, 3, 2, 1, 0

ZERO. COUNTDOWN TO THE FUTURE

EXHIBITION NOW ONLINE

Today with the future being re-written all over again, Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) is launching online the exhibition ZERO. Countdown To The Future. The exhibition had originally been realized September 2 of 2015- January 10 of 2016, in joint effort with Akbank Sanat, attracting a wide attention at its time.

Born in the aftermath of World War II, ZERO received its name from the countdown until the launch of a rocket, and soon became one of the major avant-garde movements of the mid-20^th century. Drawing upon digitalSSM’s sources, the online version of the exhibition provides the viewers with a thematic framework and presents ZERO artworks through an arrangement based on the elements of fire, color, vibration and light-shadow-sky. 

SSM Director Dr. Nazan Ölçer observed on this occasion that “the ZERO movement was born after the World War II, thanks to the efforts of a handful young artists with the aim of bringing hope into the world, and offering the world a bright future. This is exactly what we need today, in the times we are passing through: namely hope and freedom from anxiety... Throughout history, art always proved to be an important means in coping with issues like war and epidemics, all problems affecting the world on a global scale. During such times a great many artworks were created to express the suffering of humankind, to express the wish that similar experience may never repeat itself again. The yearning for going back to point zero, and start afresh, will be with us also in the future, as it was in the past. Doubtlessly the impact of the COVID-19 epidemics, bringing the whole world to a standstill, will be observed in many areas in the future. The ZERO movement made it possible for art to keep abreast with all the bewildering developments of the time, like the emergence of brand-new technologies, like the space-race at its full speed, and like reaching the moon or even the stars, which is no longer a mere dream. The ZERO artists laid the ground for all the new technologies to be found on the contemporary art’s agenda.  Way back in 2015 when we prepared the exhibition and made an evaluation of the ZERO movement’s short-lived life of 10 years, we could not but admire the zest of the ZERO artists, their hope, their optimism and their enthusiasm. And today we humbly bow down before the artists who at the heels of World War II strived to propagate the idea of abolishing borders in both art and geography, and we remember them in joyous gratitude”.

ZERO movement took its start in Germany, where World War II had left the deepest scars, while plunging the whole of Europe into misery. German artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack came forward with the proposal of “abandoning pessimism and starting from zero.”  Another German artist Günther Uecker joined them. So together with names like Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, who were forerunners of the movement, many artists from all over Europe, and even from faraway places like Japan could find a corner for themselves around the ZERO-idea. When founder Heinz Mack announced the end of ZERO at the last exhibition in 1967, the ZERO concept had long since stamped its mark on a period of 20^th century contemporary art, despite its lifespan of just 10 years.

In our online-exhibition ZER0. Countdown To The Future we display artworks by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker as well as artwork in different techniques by notable artists Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana, pioneers of the movement. Excerpts from the exhibition catalog, with a focus on the avant-garde position of  the ZERO movement in the art and political history of the 20^thcentury, are also offered online. 

Art historian and curator Norman Rosenthal contributed to the catalog with his article on ZERO’s history, and also texts written by artists Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Günther Uecker, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni were translated into Turkish for the first time to be published in this catalog. There you can find also the interviews conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist with the founders of the ZERO movement: Mack, Piene and Uecker, translated into Turkish for the exhibition purposes. 

The online exhibition includes children’s art exercises, as well. Inspired by the experiments with light, as conducted by the artists themselves and the materials used by them, these exercises are meant to introduce the kids to the ZERO movement.

Also a special pamphlet, the Dynamo gazette, prepared in reference to the magazine published by the artists between 1958-1961, and distributed during the exhibition, is now offered online. The gazette was edited by Cem Erciyes, with contributions of Beral Madra, Necmi Sönmez, Elif Key, Ayşegül Sönmez and Fisun Yalçınkaya. In the gazette you can also find an interview made by Cem Erciyes with the writer Ferit Edgü, who at the time of the first ZERO exhibitions had personally been in Europe. Last but not least, the story of our own exhibition, as narrated by Dr.Nazan Ölçer, is also in the gazette. 

The gazette can be viewed  via the online exhibition, and it also can be downloaded for free via Turkcell Dergilik application. 

You can reach the online version of the exhibition ZERO. Countdown To The Future via  Sakıp Sabancı Museum web-site.

The Corporate Governance Forum presented the Business Against Domestic Violence Project in the “Where Are We on The Fight Against Gender-Based Violence?” conference organized on November 24 by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Turkey and the special webinar organized by Sakarya Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş. on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. 

Sevda Alkan, the Director of Women Empowerment Projects at the Corporate Governance Forum of Sabancı University, shared the outcomes of the study conducted as part of the Business Against Domestic Violence Project supported by the United Nations Population Fund and the Sabancı Foundation.

Alkan noted that 17 percent of the participants of the impact study answered the question “Where should women apply if they are subjected to violence” with “They should resolve it themselves” in 2014 and this number dropped to 2 percent in 2019. 

According to the information shared by Alkan, a higher number of participants chose reasons related to men’s psychology and the patriarchal structure of society in the 2019 survey than in the 2014 survey. The most commonly recommended bodies to apply in 2019 appear to be social workers/women's organizations and violence hotlines. In addition, there seems to be increase in the rate of those who state that women who are subjected to violence should receive support from their “friends at work” or “HR department of the company where they work”.

Alkan said, “These results show that the participants of the 2019 survey have become more aware about their understanding of gender and associate the patriarchy with domestic violence”, stating that gender equality training increased the awareness of employees on issues such as discriminatory words and sharing domestic roles.

Noting that the results of the study indicate that Turkish business need to assume an active part in the sturggle against domestic violence, Alkan stated that they developed the “Workplace Policy Development and Implementation Guide on Domestic Violence Against Women” to be implemented in companies and aim to create mechanisms for the development of a work culture that does not tolerate violence against women in order to ensure gender equality in workplaces. 

Alkan continued her statement as follows:

"By implementing this guide, more than 70 companies have developed policies and established support mechanisms to address the violence that their employees are subjected to at home.

These support mechanisms essentially include:

• Additional paid leave
• Psychological and legal support services
• Personalized performance evaluation that will also take into account exceptional personal situations
• Training to raise awareness regarding gender-based violence in the company 
• Ongoing internal and external communication on the value of gender equality
• Accepting gender equality and, in particular, close partner violence as a workplace issue and the involvement of top management in communication processes related to these issues.

As a result of all these studies and work we have done so far, companies have been able to go beyond just developing policies and implemented them. The companies involved in the project treated combating domestic violence as a workplace procedure, not as corporate social responsibility. 

The business world can play an important role by developing workplace policies and support mechanisms for women who are subjected to violence in order to ensure the full inclusion of women in business life, to build stronger economies for the private sector, and to achieve international goals regarding human rights and sustainability.”

The “Books Change Our Future” project initiated by Sabancı University for high school students who will take the Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS) in the coming period continues.

The project initiated with the idea of Lütfi Emir Baysal, a student of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, provides university exam preparation books for high school students who need them.  

preparation books sent to the Information Center on the Sabancı University Campus are distributed to different high schools, primarily those in Tuzla and the surrounding area. 

As part of the project which began at the end of September, close to 700 preparation books have been sent to Darüşşafaka Educational Institutions so far. 

The process of collecting and distributing books within the scope of the project continues. Sabancı University students can bring the university exam preparation books that they do not use anymore to The Information Center in person or send them by mail to the address below. Students from other universities can also participate in the campaign by sending their books by mail.

Shipping address for books:

Sabancı Üniversitesi Bilgi Merkezi

Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Caddesi No:27 Tuzla, 34956 İstanbul

0216 483 90 00

The results of the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program were announced. A total of thirteen projects in which faculty members and researchers from Sabancı University are coordinators, researchers, or consultants were found eligible for support, which makes Sabancı University one of the universities that received the most support from within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 1001 Program.

The TÜBİTAK 1001 Support Program for Scientific and Technological Research Projects aims to support projects in compliance with the scientific rules to produce new knowledge, make scientific comments, or provide solutions to technological problems.

Our projects supported under TÜBİTAK 1001 in the first period of the year include the following:

Projects in which we are coordinators:

The project of Abdolali Khalili Sadaghiani, a researcher at SUNUM, titled “3D architectural carbon-based hybrid structure for interfacial photothermal vaporization: water purification and desalination applications.”

The project of Bekir Bediz, a faculty member at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS), titled “Multi-purpose Optimization of Producible Composite Plate Design with Variable Hardness Using the Spectral Modeling Approach Based on The Lamination/Layer Parameter Interpolation Method.”

The project of Can Çalışkan, a researcher at FENS, titled “SiGe BiCMOS Transmitter/Receiver Module Core Chip for Wide-band Low-Noise X- and -K bands.”

The project of Hayriye Ünal, a researcher at SUNUM, titled “Development of environmentally-friendly pesticide nanoformulations with controlled release properties depending on sunlight.”

The project of İbrahim Kürşat Şendur, a faculty member at FENS, titled “Surface Topology Design for Radiative Heat Transfer Applications That Diffuse/Reflect in Broadband”.

The project of Mehmet Kuru, a faculty member at the Foundations Development Program, titled “A Global-Microhistory Study on the Ottoman and Mediterranean World in the 17th Century: Customs Official Hasan Aga and His Brother Gonfaloniere Anton Bogos Çelebi of Tuscany.”

The project of Mustafa Oğuz Afacan, a faculty member at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), titled “Optimal Mechanism Design in Object Allocation Problems with Second Stage Transfers”.

The project of Yaşar Gürbuz, a faculty member at FENS, titled “Low-phase Noise SiGe BiCMOS Frequency Synthesizer for 5G Communication Systems”.

Projects in which we are researchers:

The project of Cenk Yanık, Eda Goldenberg, Meral Yüce, Mustafa Kemal Bayazıt, and Yılmaz Şimşek, researchers at SUNUM, titled “Refractory Group 4 Metal Nitride Nanostructures and Plasmonic Applications”.

The project of Emre Erdem, a faculty member at FENS, titled “Demonstration of Quantum Entanglement Interaction between Diamond-NV Centers Using Spin Currents.”

The project of Lütfi Taner Tunç, a faculty member at FENS, titled “Development of A Method for The Analysis and Improvement of The Interaction Between Additive Manufacturing and Machining Processes in Hybrid Production (HyMan)”.

Projects in which we are consultants:

The project of Emre Erdem, a faculty member at FENS, titled “Production, Characterization, and Applications of Boron Carbide (B4C) Nano-fibers by Non-catalytic Sol-Gel Method.”

The project of Öznur Taştan, a faculty member at FENS, titled “Investigation of the potential of genes regulated by mediator complex sub-unit MED15 in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of colorectal cancer.” 

The Purple Certificate Program carried out by the Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center for Excellence (SU Gender) for 13 years with the support of the Sabancı Foundation held online basic training on gender equality to teachers and prospective teachers with notebook computers provided to participants by Sabancı Holding.

At the Purple Certificate Online Basic Training which took place between 17-20 November 2020, 60 teachers and prospective teachers selected from 708 applications came together. The training given by Nevgül Bilsel Safkan, the Vice Chairperson of the Haci Ömer Sabancı Foundation and a member of the SU Gender Advisory Board, raised awareness regarding gender equality in many different fields from literature to science and from law to health. At the end of four days of training, teachers and prospective teachers received a certificate of participation.  

As part of the Online Basic Training, Sabancı Holding aimed to eliminate inequalities in the online and distance education process with a notebook computer delivered to all participants, and also granted participating teachers and prospective teachers with the right to give out these computers to their colleagues or students.

The next Online Training within the scope of the Purple Certificate Program will be held in February 2021.