SU graduate Canan Dağdeviren is Recognized as an Honoree of MIT Technology Review’s Annual INNOVATORS UNDER 35 List

Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program 2009 alumnus Canan Dağdeviren added a new achievement to her long line of success.

MIT Technology Review reveals its annual list of Innovators Under 35. For over a decade, the global media company has recognized a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world. For her work in the field of nanotechnology and materials, Canan Dagdeviren of Sabanci University’s 2009 Alumna has been recognized as an inventor on the list.

Dr. Dagdeviren has developed flexible nano-generators that convert mechanical energy from internal organ movements into electric energy to power medical devices. These first-of-their-kind devices, a new class of biocompatible piezoelectric mechanical energy harvesters (PZT MEHs), are soft and flexible with extremely low bending stiffness, which allows them to conform to and laminate on the heart as well as on other soft tissues. Under the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle, the device bends and relaxes, which supplies enough trickle charge – a steady stream of charging current at low rate – to satisfy the needs of a pacemaker. This technology could extend the battery life of implanted medical devices or even eliminate the need of battery replacement, sparing patients from repeated operations and the risk of surgical complications. 

This year’s honorees will be featured online at www.technologyreview.com starting today, and in the September/October print magazine, which hits newsstands worldwide on September 1. They will appear in person at the upcoming EmTech MIT conference November 2–4 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (www.EmTechMIT.com). 

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Students who will take the ELAE on September 2nd, 2015:

1. Students who have studied in School of Languages during 2014-15 Academic Year Summer School. (Petition is not required.) 
2. Inactive students who have given in a petition to take the ELAE on September 2nd, 2015
3. Graduate students who have received approval from their faculties
4. Undergraduate students who are transferring from Turkish-medium universities

The list of students who will take September 2nd ELAE will be put up on the doors of the School of Languages building on Tuesday, September 1st.

Location and Times:

WRITING & LISTENING            09.30 - 12:00 

READING                                   13:15 – 15:00

LOCATION                                 FMAN 1099

DATE                                          September 2nd,2015

For the identification check to be done in time, we ask that students who will take the exam be at the exam hall half an hour before the exam starts and that they bring some official identification which includes their photograph (such as a passport, identification card, driver’s license) with them.

Students should also make sure that they bring a pencil, eraser and any other necessary pieces of equipment with them. 

Students are asked not to bring their mobile phones into the exam hall. Students are kindly reminded that if they bring their mobile phones, they will be collected.

The results of the ELAE will be announced on the external web page of Sabanci University. The results will also be posted on the doors of the School of Languages building. These results will be announced on Friday, September 4th at 7pm.

Graduate students will be informed of their ELAE results by their faculties.

No results will not be given out over the telephone to avoid any misunderstandings.

There is no make-up for the ELAE.

Detailed information about the ELAE and a sample of the exam is available at the link below. We recommend that all students who will take the exam check this link.

http://sl.sabanciuniv.edu/students/elae

We wish you every success in the exam.

School of Languages

Sabancı University Executive MBA students Gökhan Çelebi, Selcen Mülazımoğlu and İsmail Sincik won the #ucuzfikrinyahnisi contest held among universities by DuPont to discover and promote innovative ideas. 

Sabancı University Executive MBA (EMBA) students Gökhan Çelebi, Selcen Mülazımoğlu and İsmail Sincik won the #ucuzfikrinyahnisi contest held among universities by DuPont, a global science company offering world-class, innovative products, materials and services to global markets.

The Sabancı University Executive MBA team received their prizes at the ceremony held in the DuPont Turkey Innovation Center.  Prizes were presented by DuPont Turkey Country Manager Halide Aydınlık. Winners Gökhan Çelebi, Selcen Mülazımoğlu and İsmail Sincik won iPads and a two-day trip to the DuPont Europe Headquarters in Geneva and DuPont Europe R&D and Innovation Center in Meyrin, Switzerland.

As the embodiment of DuPont’un innovative approach, the competition was open to all undergraduate and graduate students regardless of department or program, and focused on projects concerning "sustainable food and agriculture solutions in rural Turkey." 

Sabancı University School of Management Dean Professor Füsun Ülengin said, “I'd like to congratulate our students for winning the DuPont competition on sustainable food and agriculture practices in rural Turkey with their brilliant and innovative idea."

Speaking at the awards ceremony, DuPont Turkey Country Manager Halide Aydınlık said, “As a company that has been leading global science for over two centuries, we genuinely support innovative ideas. Last year, we had held the inaugural competition in partnership with Sabancı University. This year, we received submissions from other universities. We were delighted to meet students and hear about their projects. We will continue to hold competitions that support innovative ideas in the future."

For the 5th August 2015, ELAE RESULTS click here

To the attention of students who took the ELAE on August 5th, 2015

Exam result code explanations are as follows:

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have received the required grade or above in the August 5th ELAE  and who have gained the right to start their faculty studies as Fall (regular) Freshman in the 2015-2016 Fall Semester.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have not been able to obtain the required grade in the ELAE on the 5th August, 2015.

NA (Non-attendance): indicates students who did not attend the exam and is equivalent to a “UL” grade*.

Grade bands are as below:

We wish you success in your studies,

The School of Languages Directorate

According to research implemented by Sabancı University on behalf of the International Forwarders' Association (UND), reciprocal trade with the EU may increase by a further 10 billion Euros.

A team led by Sabancı University School of Management Dean Professor Füsun Ülengin and composed of Doğuş and Istanbul Technical University faculy members is currently undertaking a project for the International Forwarders' Association (UND).

The study aims to uncover the negative impact of trade quotas on Turkey's exports. In the first stage of the study, a gravity model was built based solely on bilateral quotas. This revealed Turkey's financial losses arising out of quotas. Next, a successful application was submitted to the TÜBİTAK 3001 project call. The project features an in-depth analysis that considers not only bilateral quotas, but all transit quotas in their entirety. Emphasizing that Sabancı University is the implementer of the TÜBİTAK project, Füsun Ülengin said “We are determining the actual volume of bilateral trade made by Turkey between any two points in the EU, and the theoretical maximum trade volume in the absence of quotas. We completed this phase of the study. In the next phase, we will include these values in the gravity model and make export predictions for Turkey. Besides, we worked with all freight forwarders to produce a detailed cost analysis of all routes. We will use a simulation model to analyze the findings offered by the gravity model to determine the full extent of our losses due to quotas."

UND Chair Çetin Nuhoğlu said, "According to the study performed by Sabancı University, reciprocal trade with the EU may increase by 10 billion Euros." Nuhoğlu explained that forwarding not undertaken by Turkey due to quotas went to forwarders based in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, and said that under full liberalization, Turkey could potentially export an additional 200 million Euros in services.

The first stage of the study was published in the Transport Policy journal last year, and became one of the most-cited articles.

Sabancı University MBA student Kamil Majeed was a speaker at the 15th Anniversary of the Global Compact and the 4th PRME Global Forum held in New York between June 23rd and 25th, 2015. 

Kamil Majeed took part in the conference for having won the PRME LEAD Video Essay Contest on “The Future Corporation” held as part of the Global Compact PRME LEAD Symposium.   The contest was open to MBA students of “PRME Champion” schools. 27 submissions were received to the contest and the only entrant from Turkey was Sabancı University.

The conference was attended by over 400 academics, university presidents, local institution representatives, civil society leaders, and students. Kamil Majeed's award-winning video and other selected submissions were screened during the conference.

About his video essay Kamil Majeed said: “I started with the nature and core focus of corporations, which is to maximize their profit, and drew my conception of the future corporation.  What I did was to recommend a solution based on the practical nature of the corporation, current technologies and product trends, and the widespread use of information technologies. The vision I came up with creates a win-win situation for corporations and the society as it remains true to its intentions and creates added value on a macro scale.”
90-second videos prepared in English were judged by a panel composed of Ole Hansen, Head of Global Compact LEAD; Jonas Haertle, Head of the PRME Secretariat; Oliver Laasch, Founder of the Center for Responsible Management Education (CRME) and Research Fellow at Manchester Business School; and Divya Singhal, Associate Professor of General Management at the Goa Institute of Management.

About PRME Champions

This new leadership group, launched in September 2013, is working to unlock the next level of responsible management and leadership education, underscoring the role of higher education in addressing sustainable development challenges. Since the inception of the PRME initiative in 2007, there has been increased debate over how to adapt management education to train a new generation of business leaders capable of managing the complex demands faced by business and society in the 21st century. While consensus has been reached by the majority of globally focused management programs that sustainability issues must be incorporated, many questions remain regarding how to change. The PRME Champions group will work to address these questions.

The representatives of PRME Champion institutions have made an ambitious commitment to work collaboratively to develop and promote activities that address shared barriers to making responsible management education a reality. The group is also committed to engaging PRME more actively with United Nations agencies, funds, and programs, as well as participant companies of the UN Global Compact.  

Sabancı University Faculty Members and Researchers Make a Difference

Sabancı University received support for 12 of its projects in the 1001 and 3501 programs of TÜBİTAK for the March 2015 term, achieving a success rating of 40% in the number of applications. This is one of the highest percentages in Turkey.

Projects supported for the March 2015 term within the TÜBİTAK Program to Support Scientific and Technological Research Projects (1001)

Associate Professor Ali Koşar, FENS, “High mass flux flow boiling in microchannel and detailed investigation of flow boiling heat transfer in microfluidic systems by changing surface characteristics with pHEMA  (polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate)  coating and flow boiling visualization”

Professor  Ersin Göğüş, FENS, “Search for spin periods of neutron star in low mass x-ray binaries"

Assistant Professor Fevzi Çakmak Cebeci, FENS, "Development of Stable and High Performance Icephobic Surfaces by LbL Technique”

Associate Professor İlker Hamzaoğlu, FENS, “Low Power High Performance HEVC Video Compression Hardware Designs”

Associate Professor Nilay Noyan, FENS, “Robust risk-averse stochactic programming models for mutlicriteria decision making problems "

Associate Professor Özgecan Koçak, SoM, “The Effect of Structural Configurations on Emergence of Conceptual Pacts in Coordination Games”

Associate Professor Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, FENS, “Synthesis of Novel and High Capacity Graphene Supported Cerium based Mixed Oxide Nanostructures and Development of Three Dimensional Foam Electrodes for Li-air Batteries”

Assistant Professor Şerif Aziz Şimşir, SOM, “Intraday Stock Trading Around Corporate Announcements "

Associate Professor Volkan Patoğlu, FENS, “Development of Pelvis-Hip Exoskeleton Systems for Gait Rehabilitation”

Professor Yuda Yürüm, MDBF, “Morphological Optimization of BNNTs and Their Epoxy Nanocomposites as Potential High Performance and Fast Curing Resins for Structural Composites”

Projects supported for the March 2015 term within the TÜBİTAK Career Development Program (3501) 

Assistant Professor Çağla Aydın, FASS, “The relationship between post-partum depression and memory”

Dr. Sibel Kasap, SUNUM, “Investigation of adsorption behaviour of liquid radioactive waste on magnetic nanoparticles doped graphene foams”

FASS Faculty Member Murat Germen’s exhibition “Ankara: From pioneering modernism to imitative mimesis and faux futurism" will be available for viewing at Erimtan Museum until September 30.

Murat Germen’s exhibition is displayed in the temporary exhibits section of Erimtan, the first private archeology museum of Ankara, located in the historical Castle district.

The exhibition is centered on Ankara as the strategic capital of the new Republic in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and visualizes the decisions and changes that made an impact on the city and the urban culture through photographs. The exhibition includes panoramas varying between 3 to 8 meters in width, hundreds of A4-size documentary photographs, and some digitally-edited photographic images to enable visitors to compare the present of the city to its past.

Murat Germen uses photography as a tool for research and expression, and deals with the superficial impositions on the city and its culture, disregarding the continuity of cultural heritage, and public and green spaces. According to Germen, the exhibition juxtaposes different urban planning tactics employed throughout Republican history and the traces or scars left on the city by different ideologies for comparison.

Germen says that the outcome is imitative mimesis accompanied by an excessive vertical development, continuing: "Urban culture is shaped by fine arts, literature, performing arts, gastronomy and folkloric tradition - locally sourced productions in various areas of creation. Cities provide the grounds and resources for such production while museums, NGOs, foundations, institutes and similar institutions archive, safeguard and share these. Thinking that cities consist simply of high-rise residences, malls and roads is a tremendous mistake. If a settlement only consumes and cannot produce adequately, calling that place a city has its dangers. If the producers of culture are under constant intimidation by conservative administrations, the city ceases to be an urban space, and turns into a gigantic village where a pseudo-urban, faux-popular culture is manufactured.

One habit that is detrimental to culture in Turkey is the tendency of masses, individuals, administrations and organizations to demolish what was built before, replacing them with new structures that belong in their own customs. Current rulers believe they have the right to destroy things that have been done reasonably well by former generations just because they are the products of a different ideological, cultural or religious perspective. Succeeding generations don't opt to lay another brick on what was built before. This causes fragmentation between various components, heritages and peers within the culture of Turkey, and instills resentment among the denizens of a country. A magnificent estate composed of a fascinating number of layers loses its ability to sustain itself as an essence worthy of respect, and is ousted by provincialism. While several discrete components of the society, deprived of unity and respect for the other, clash with each other, certain groups emerge to reap the benefits. Government authorities and businesses are strong and dominant, while a society of independent and free individuals grows weaker.

A healthy cultural transformation is not possible in the absence of a balance achieved by social components that respect each other, administrations that are willing to lend their denizens an ear, independent individuals that possess responsibility and consciousness, and visionary capital owners who prefer to generate long-term profit through quality rather than going for quick and cheap ripoffs."

Sabancı University School of Management faculty member Nakiye Boyacıgiller moderated a panel discussion titled "Women's Leadership in Turkey" during the 20th International Convention of the Soroptimist International Federation, one of the largest women's civil society organizations in the world. The theme for this year's convention was "Soroptimists Educate to Lead: Fresh Ideas Empowering Women."

Speaking in the panel were TÜSİAD Chair Cansen Başaran Symes, TÜSİAD Gender Equality Working Group Chair and SUTEKS Board of Directors Chair Nur Ger, Vodafone Deputy CEO Hasan Süel, and Intel New Technologies Vice President Ayşegül İldeniz joining via videoconference from the US.

TÜSİAD Chair Cansen Başaran Symes said that they were the only institution in Europe that had three chairwomen in the last 45 years, continuing "Since 2007, three women have chaired TÜSİAD. From this perspective, we can speak of much that has changed in Turkey. But looking at the complete picture as TÜSİAD chair, sometimes I can't help being scared. I think our job is difficult. I recently read OECD 2015 data on skills. It was the result of a survey among individuals between 15 and 29. Unfortunately, Turkey has the highest percentage of people who are neither employed nor in education in this age group: 31 percent. I guess this shows everyone how hard businesses must work to overcome this issue. From women's perspective, this data suggests that 4 million women have no access to work or education."

Vodafone Deputy CEO Hasan Süel and Intel New Technologies Vice President Ayşegül İldeniz discussed the benefits that technology would bring in this area. Ayşegül İldeniz told the story of a meeting she attended in the early 2000s, explaining that women desire to use technology as much as men do. Hasan Süel spoke on the "Red Light" application that won an award in Cannes.

Nur Ger explained the efforts of SUTEKS to ensure gender equality and support women's employment.