The Orientation Program, which the all new undergraduate students of Sabancı University will participate, will be held on September 29-30, 2022. 

Please click to read details of the Orientation Program.

To the attention of students who will take the September 2022 ELAE Stage-1,

STAGE ONE EXAM DATE, TIME AND PLACE

Monday, September 26th, 2022 / 09:30 am – 11:00 am / MDBF (FENS) G077 (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Building)

Important Reminder:

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.

The results of the Stage 1 will be announced on the external web page of Sabancı University through the SU web-page. These results will be announced on Monday, September 26th at 9:00 pm.

Students who receive  unsatisfactory grade (UL) will be placed in the Foundation Development Year at either Route 1, Route 2 or Route 3.

Students who do not take the exam (NA) will be placed in the Foundation Development Year at Route 1.

Therefore, even if an ELAE candidate feels that their English level is not high enough, they are still advised to take Stage 1 and to answer as many questions as they can so that their English level can be measured accurately.

Students who will take stage 2:

• New entry students those who receive satisfactory grade (SL grade) from ELAE Stage 1,

STAGE 2 DATE, TIMES and PLACE:

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022, 09:30-15:00 (details below) / MDBF (FENS) G077 (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Building)

9:30 – 11:00 Writing

11:00 – 12:00 Listening

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 15:00 Reading

Important Reminder:

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.

The results of the second stage will be announced on the external web page of Sabancı University through the SU web-page. These results will be announced on Wednesday, September 28th at 10:00 pm.

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

There is no make-up for the ELAE.

ELAE results are announced as letters of the alphabet.*

SL – Satisfactory from the ELAE,

UL-Unsatisfactory from the ELAE; 

NA- Non-attendance, 

UL – Unsatisfactory. 

As stated in our regulations, no results are released as numeric values.

*SL and UL scales are only available for the second stage of the ELAE

SL (Satisfactory):  ‘A-SL, B-SL, C-SL’,

EL  (Exempt from the ELAE),

UL (Unsatisfactory): D-UL, E-UL, F-UL,

NA (Non attendance/ evaluated as UL)’

 Scales are as below:

Students who receive less than 70% (UL) will be placed in the Foundation Development Year at either Route 3 or Route 4.

Students who are successful in Stage 2 of the exam, those who receive SL, will be eligible to start Faculty classes in the 2022-2023 Academic Year.

We recommend that all students who will take the exam check this link.

We wish you every success in the exam.

School of Languages

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum is now hosting Hussein Chalayan’s new solo exhibition, ‘Souffleur.’ Using new media to focus on the body and modern anthropology, the exhibition consists of three series and a video installation and opened to the public on Friday, 16 September 2022.

The three series presented in the exhibition include Pre-tension, inspired by the concept of pretence that is frequently encountered and criticised in popular culture; Fake Celebrations, which protests our ‘digital isolation’ that increases with each passing day, and Post-Colonial Body, dealing with the dance and bodily movements of ethnic groups colonised by the West throughout history. For Chalayan, each object in these installations acts as a ‘prompter’, filling in the gaps within these subjects. Designed and directed by Chalayan, the film of the performance titled Gravity Fatigue deals with identity, disembodiment, migration, and metamorphosis, all areas of ongoing interest for the artist.

Hussein Chalayan is a unique contemporary figure with an innovative perspective, not only in the fashion world but in every discipline involving a creative process. Inspired by architecture, philosophy, science, history, anthropology, biology, and technology; he is a leading representative of contemporary art and fashion. Named Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards for two consecutive years, Chalayan was awarded an MBE in 2006. He is also the recipient of the London Design Medal and several other awards and titles and was named Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). 

Hussein Chalayan is a storyteller. Aside from his fashion collections, he also makes installations, directs short films, designs stage performances, and designs costumes for the performing arts. Concept and execution, philosophy and wearability, theatricality and technique are all skilfully used and equally balanced in his clothing designs. 

Chalayan’s video installation ‘Absent Presence’ featuring Tilda Swinton, exhibited at the Turkish pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, is a short film that examines the relationship between the geographic environment and the structure of DNA. Since his early years were spent between two different cultures, in Cyprus and the United Kingdom, the concepts of cultural identity, nation-states, displacement, immigration, and disembodiment are frequently encountered in his work. 

‘Souffleur’, a collaboration between the Sakıp Sabancı Museum and Pilevneli, will be on view at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum until 8 January 2023. 

Students who students enrolled at universities other than Sabancı University can apply to the courses offered by Sabancı University to participate as special students.

• To be registered as a student in a higher education institution to be able to take a course from undergraduate level,
• To be able to take a course from graduate level, it is necessary to be a student enrolled in a master, doctorate or proficiency in art program in a higher education institution,

Approval for special student application cannot be considered as the approval of any diploma programs. Transcript on which courses registered and course grades are printed can be given on demand to special students.

Deadline for application: September 16, 2022

2022-2023 Academic Year Fall Term Application Requirements

2022-2023 Academic Year Special Student Application

Sabancı University
Student Resources Unit
Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Cd. No:27
34956 Orhanlı-Tuzla
İSTANBUL, TR

Phone: 0216 483 90 93
Fax: 0216 483 90 73

E-mail: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu, ssadmission@sabanciuniv.edu

This fall, the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) will host ‘The Living Pyramid,’ a site-specific work by Agnes Denes, a prominent ecofeminist artist. The work will be displayed in the SSM garden between September 13, 2022 - January 29, 2023, with the main sponsorship of Sabancı Holding, and all communications sponsorship by Çimsa.

Denes' artistic practice is distinctive in its aesthetics and engagement with socio-political ideas. Her art aims to inspire, and urge people to action, as well as calling attention to social concerns, and involving people from all walks of life by way of a benign, non-invasive artistic practice, that is both gentle yet forceful, without conceding artistic intent. Bringing global awareness to humanity’s most pressing issues, such as environmental pollution and climate change, is reflected in all of Denes’ works. She has spent much of the last forty years putting forth her ecological and philosophical ideas to communities throughout the world.

The Sakıp Sabancı Museum Director, Dr. Nazan Ölçer said: “Agnes Denes, a pioneer of ecological art, is the focus of this year’s exhibition of contemporary art at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, a biannual series that began with the Blind Date exhibition in 2007. The pandemic, which has taken a hold on the entire world for the last two years, has only served to exacerbate our environmental concerns, leading us to question our relationship with the earth. Indeed, with the added responsibilities of our new, green museum certification, we have prioritized this issue even more in our programming. ‘The Living

Pyramid’ was realized in close collaboration with Denes, who has made a name for herself with her large-scale ecological interventions from the 1960s onwards and will be on display in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum garden between September 13, 2022 – January 29, 2023. Denes’ ‘Manifesto,’ which she wrote in 1969, will also be exhibited alongside the pyramid, a structure which ‘revives’ our relationship with nature by acting as a metaphor for our existence in this world.

Agnes Denes (b. 1931, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born American artist based in New York, known for her conceptual work that focuses on ecological concerns. Since her exhibition career began in the 1960s, she has participated in hundreds of exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world. Aside from her large-scale environmental projects, her drawings, paintings and three-dimensional works are in the collections of many major institutions. 'The Living Pyramid' is her first work to be exhibited in Turkey.

The pyramid was planted, in part, by volunteer participants on September 10-11, and it will grow and change shape as thousands of seeds turn into grasses and flowers. Denes’ Manifesto, carved onto a marble slab and produced especially for this exhibition in line with the artist’s wishes, takes its place as a permanent addition to the collection and garden. It is a great source of pride that the esteemed author Buket Uzuner, who for many years has focused on ecological concerns in her work, has accepted our invitation to read the artist’s ‘Manifesto’. I am very grateful to her.

‘The Living Pyramid’ will be activated through accompanying educational programs, promoting environmental awareness, conservation, and sustainability. After the exhibition, the Sakıp Sabancı Museum will continue to embrace Denes’ approach, inviting visitors to adopt the plants. Though the pyramid will disintegrate when members of the community share it among themselves, it will continue to grow and prosper as small parts of the formerly monumental form Denes’ ‘Manifesto’, on the other hand, will live on in the garden as a reminder of ‘The Living Pyramid’, and the micro-community that came together to create it. I would like to thank Sabancı Holding and our communications sponsor Çimsa for their support throughout this valuable and meaningful project.”

Sabancı Holding Human Resources and Sustainability Group President Hakan Timur said: “At Sabancı Holding, we are devoted to the issue of sustainability at the highest level. The fact that we chose ‘For sustainable living, we unite Turkey with the world through pioneering initiatives' as our Community Promise is an excellent indicator of this commitment. With our sustainable growth model that protects nature and an awareness of our power to influence, we work hard to do our part in every issue we undertake. Among them, our initiatives regarding art have a significant place. Art brings us together and creates a collective consciousness. Thus, by supporting ‘The Living Pyramid’ exhibition, we aim to sustain a social awareness that will benefit the environment.”

Çimsa CEO Umut Zenar said: “Carrying the utmost awareness of our responsibility towards our environment and society, we consider the issue of sustainability to be part of our primary strategy and our way of doing business. At Çimsa, we are constantly trying to develop solutions to combat climate change, which is critical for a sustainable future. We also support the work done for this cause, which is why ‘The Living Pyramid’ project has been a production that we have stood behind. We aim to reduce the carbon intensity with the studies we carry out within our organisation and our investments in renewable energy sources.”

On Agnes Denes and ‘The Living Pyramid’...

Driven by an inexhaustible curiosity, Agnes Denes continually expands her ideas, forms, and processes to bring to the surface an almost prophetic vision of the future of humanity. This vision she has created boldly evaluates our reality; but, at the same time, continues to look to the future with hope.

‘The Living Pyramid’ is a site-specific work, first constructed in 2015 at the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York and later at the Nordstadtpark in Kassel as part of documenta 14 in 2017. It can also be thought of as a living sculpture, with a natural life cycle. Made of wooden stepped terraces filled with four tons of earth, the pyramid arcs nine meters into the sky. Planted into its terraces are two thousand plants and flowers belonging to approximately six hundred species, selected in collaboration with the artist from the urban flora of Istanbul, their positions on the pyramid determined by the amount of sun and shade falling on each façade. The pyramid will evolve throughout its public exhibition: the plants will sprout and bloom, some will go to seed, some will die.

Denes’ statement, “While the pyramids are based on mathematics and thus achieve a kind of perfection, they contain all the imperfections they are dealing with or are representing and visualizing,” provides some insight into why she chooses to explore the relationship between humans and nature through the living pyramid. The artist, who has been using the pyramid form as a metaphor in different media from drawing to sculpture for nearly half a century, also uses the form to question the social hierarchies inherent in our perception of the world.

‘The Living Pyramid’ is on view at the SSM until 29 January, 2023.

Children's Workshops

Between 1 October, 2022 – 29 January, 2023; SSM Learning Programs will hold workshops for children from different age groups. The focus will be on environment and ecology.

The programme of conferences and events for adults can be found on the SSM website.

*All children’s workshops and adult events are in Turkish.

Murat Germen’s solo exhibition “Obscura Lucida” can be seen at Ferda Art Platform between 07 September‐ 08 October 2022.

The title “Obscura Lucida”, which consists of photographs taken by the artist with long exposures, sometimes in the dark and sometimes in the twilight, documenting the flawless and serene moments of the city and nature, refers to the technical and philosophical dimensions of the history of photography. The artist constructs the concepts of "obscura", indicating darkness, and "lucida", ascribing light, in his photographs, where he turns night into day, through the relationship between human, city and nature. The photographs comprise visual descriptions documenting the moments when the city and nature, which are exposed to human destruction and occupation during the day, reappear at night.

Though it is easier for some people to commit a crime in darkness; most humans are afraid of darkness and nighttime. This fearfulness is actually a really great thing to celebrate; considering that this weird species called humankind produces malignancy brutally and recklessly most of the time. The destructive humankind pushes aside the places, cities it daily abuses as a power arena and retreats back home at night, in order to relieve its fatigue stemming from everyday hubbub. It is the city's turn to grab the stage; even if darkness reigns, the city metaphorically shines. If you remember to look up at the sky, where you rest at night, you see the stars. You get to comprehend that there are other planets, galaxies, life forms in the universe; you feel much smaller and humankind, as a monolith of arrogance, must frequently feel so!!!

In his words that the renowned Turkish author, short story writer, playwright, and poet Murathan Mungan specifically penned down for Germen's first monography titled 'New Turkey' edited by Necmi Sönmez; Mungan says: "Works in Germen's 'Obscura Lucida' series fully operate on a horizontal motion with a cinemascopic sensitivity. These are some kind of panoramas laden with a ‘pastoral feeling’ dominated by endlessness and desolation, where the sky imposes an exceptional presence. In these images deprived of a subject matter by the removal of the human element; solitude, desolation, endlessness and forlornness are emphasized. Empty parks, empty turf soccer pitches, a public bus with no passengers in sight, desolate streets where even the cars are stationary and construction sites gradually become ‘a picture of desolation.’ The crushing pressure of the sky in some, the silent domination of heaps of iron and steel, and the loneliness of streets and parks in others… They all work towards the same desolation.” City planner and architect Hande Tombaz states; “albeit photos are representations of a particular moment, they doubtlessly define a novel reality as they create a certain distance in space and time,” in a text she wrote for the same series.

This series of timeless yet timely long-exposure photographs of documentary nature taken sometimes in pitch dark or twilight, under moonlight or cloudy sky in turn; is composed of visual depictions that are difficult to timestamp. This ambiguous visuality that illustrates an illuminated darkness, praises human transiency and urban endurance to the skies, so to say. Concepts of “obscura” denoting darkness and “lucida” implying luminousness all refer to the technical and philosophical dimensions of the history of photography. Brightened darkness can be conceived as an alternative perception to the typical charmless nocturnal panic; and the act of photography realized on tripod peacefully in a rush-free manner can be taken as self-therapy and catharsis.

Shaghayegh Saeidiharzand, Ph.D. student of FENS, is one of the recipients of the TEKNOFEST 2022 Environment and Energy Technologies Competition Award in addition to the Best Presentation Award for her project entitled "Novel Anti-icing Coating for Wind Turbines". 

Environment and Energy Technologies Competition aims to create energy efficient systems and promotes the development and use of innovative technologies for renewable energy sources. 

The Sabanci University project team consists of our two graduate students Ahmad Reza Motezakker and Soroush Niazi, FENS and SUNUM researcher Abdolali Sadaghiani, SUNUM researcher Alp Yürüm, and FENS faculty member and SUNUM researcher Ali Koşar.

The winners of the “Best Article Competition” organized by the Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces for Nano Diagnosis (EFSUN) of Sabancı University were  announced in a Zoom event held on 25 August 2022. The FENS faculty member Prof. Emre Erdem was the presenter of the competition.

24 finalists consisting of distinguished young scientists from different disciplines publishing articles with high impact on Functional Surfaces and Interfaces presented their articles in the event.

The winners of the Best Article Competition were selected by the evaluation committee consisting of well-known and active scientists from different disciplines: 

1-Dr. Zehra Sayers, Sabancı Üniversity 

2-Dr. Meltem Elitaş, Sabancı Üniversity 

3-Dr. Merve Senem Seven, Sabancı Üniversity

4-Dr. Feray Bakan Mısırlıoğlu, SUNUM 

5-Dr. Ahu Gümrah Parry, Manchester University 

6- Dr. Ramazan Asmatülü, Wichita State University 

7- Dr. Burç Mısırlıoğlu- Sabancı Üniversity  

The members of the committee carefully evaluated each article and presentation.

Researcher Betül Aldemir Dikici took the first place with her article titled “Boosting the Osteogenic and Angiogenic Performance of Multiscale Porous Polycaprolactone Scaffolds by In Vitro Generated Extracellular Matrix Decoration’’;

Researcher Tutku Bedük Aşirova  took the second place with her article titled “Rapid Point-of-Care COVID-19 Diagnosis with a GoldNanoarchitecture-Assisted Laser-Scribed Graphene Biosensor”; and

Researcher  Hilal Dağlar took the third place with her article titled  “Exploring the performance limits of MOF/polymer MMMs for O2/N2 separation using computational screening”.

More information about these articles could be obtained using the following links:

1. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b23100 
2. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01444
3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376738820311327

The theme for the 2023 edition of the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, the first and only international award program in Turkey in the field of social sciences, organized annually by Sabancı University, is “the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye: Republicanism in Theory and Application”.

The deadline for submissions for the award program, organized following the will of the late Sakıp Sabancı, Honorary Chair of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı University, is January 15, 2023.

The 2023 theme of the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, the first and only international award program in Turkey in the field of social sciences, organized annually by Sabancı University, is “the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye: Republicanism in Theory and Application”.

Within the scope of the award program, the theme of which is determined specifically for the year 2023, when the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye will be celebrated, there will be a Jury Prize of 25,000 USD. The Jury Prize will be presented to an individual who has made distinguished contributions to the above-mentioned theme. An independent and international jury will select the Awardee. In addition to the Jury Prize, Essay Awards will be given to researchers under 45 years of age. This category includes 10,000 USD for each of the three award-winning essays selected by the same jury from among the submitted essays.

The details of the award theme for this year are as follows:

On the eve of the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye, the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards will acknowledge scholarly input from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the concept, history and institutions of the Republic and Republicanism.

This year’s call invites original essays adding to existing knowledge on Republic and Republicanism in theory and practice focusing on Turkey but not limited to it, and/or helping to contextualize political and social processes in Turkey from a comparative perspective.

Studies from a wide range of disciplines such as political theory, political and moral philosophy, comparative politics, international relations, history, economics, gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology are welcome as well as multi and interdisciplinary research in social sciences.

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2023.

For submission guidelines about the 2023 Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, please visit https://award.sabanciuniv.edu.