The application deadline for the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, of which the theme for the year 2022 was chosen as “The Future of Globalization: Return of the State?”, has been extended to January 28, 2022.

Research essays on the subject of “The Future of Globalization: Return of the State” can be submitted until January 28, 2022 in the framework of the annual Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, which are endowed in the will of Sakıp Sabancı, the Honorary Chairperson of Sabancı University, as the only international awards program in Turkey in the field of social sciences

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award entails a Jury Prize of 25,000 USD, which will be awarded to an individual who has made distinguished contributions in this theme. The essay category includes an award of 10,000 USD for a certain number of winning essays written by researchers under 45 years of age selected by the same jury panel from among submissions made for the competition.

This year’s theme is shaped around the following questions:

Globalization has transformed the relations between state, market, and society. At the turn of the century, protests and movements against the financial and trade institutions of globalization have led scholars to study its broken promises, its winners and losers and the growing discontent. Twenty years on, we are facing a backlash against globalization beyond its economic dimension.  Withdrawals from international and regional institutions, electoral successes of nationalist leaders and anti-immigrant sentiments are the new manifestations of this backlash against political and social globalization.

Yet, we do live in a world of states. The pandemic has once again revitalized this ongoing debate on whether globalization is in retreat and whether we are witnessing the comeback of the state. If so, what kind of a state? The complexities of the modern world have arguably made the structure and capabilities of the state ever more consequential for its society as well as the broader international society. The emergence of a truly multipolar world and the alternative models of state capitalism under authoritarian governments also call into question what kind of future awaits the globalization phenomenon.

Essays that address such topics and compare different context and historical periods are welcome.

For further information: https://award.sabanciuniv.edu

10 projects of Sabancı University faculty members and researchers have been granted within the framework of TÜBİTAK ARDEB 2021 2^nd term "1001-Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program”.

Supported projects are:

Principal Investigator Ali Koşar, Faculty Member at Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and part-time researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Energy Harvesting with Small-Scale Hydrodynamic Cavitation and Development of New Generation Microfluidic Energy Harvesting Devices”. 2 full-time members and 1 technical expert from SUNUM take part in the project as researchers.

Principal Investigator Araz Sheibani Aghdam*, post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and part-time researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Energy Efficient Co2 Capture with High-Performance Segregation Device Equipped with Hydrodynamic Cavitation Microfluidic System and Co2-phyilic Electrospun Nanofibers”,

Principal Investigator Bahattin Koç*, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and part-time researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Manufacturing of Leather Conjugate Supporting Hair Follicle Development through Innovative 3D Hybrid Bioprinting Method”,

Principal Investigator Ezgi Karabulut Türkseven, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences - project entitled “Machine Learning Applications that Learn Product Valuations to the Problem of Package Pricing”,

Principal Investigator Hatice Sinem Şaş Çaycı, researcher at Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center (SU-IMC) - project entitled “Manufacturing of New Generation Thermoplastic Space and Aviation Composites with Automatic Fiber Laying Process: Towards On-Site Consolidation and Composite 4.0”,

Principal Investigator Hüseyin Özkan, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences - project entitled “Non-Supervised Deep Learning for Practical and High-Performance Brain-Computer Interfaces and an Innovative Video Target Marking and Tracking Application”,

Principal Investigator Junko Kanero, member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - project entitled “Development of Attitudes Towards Robots and Other Groups: Examination of Human-Robot Interaction from the Perspective of Inter-Group Contact”,

Principal Investigator Morteza Ghorbani*, researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Experimental and Numerical Examination of Thrombolysis Induced by Hydrodynamic Cavitation by Using Clot on a Chip Model and Prototyping of Hydrodynamic Cavitation-Supported, Catheter-Guided Thrombolysis Device”,

Principal Investigator Nur Mustafaoğlu Varol, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences - project entitled “Selection of Peptide Sequences That Can Pass the Blood-Brain Barrier by Using the Most Developed 3D In Vitro Organ Chip Models and Their Integration with Nano-Transmitter Systems”,

Principal Investigator Özge Kemahlıoğlu Bayer, member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - project entitled “The Role of Information on Updating Voters’ Expectations”.

*Projects of which principal investigators are Bahattin Koç, member of FENS, Araz Sheibani Aghdam, post-doctoral researcher at FENS, and Morteza Ghorbani, researcher at SUNUM, will be carried out at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center.

The criteria considered favorably in the evaluation of 1001 project applications are including: The outcome performance of principal investigators’ previous supported projects, compatibility with priority areas in TÜBİTAK’s call plan and increase in the technological readiness level in the proposed project, projects that are directly related to R&D and innovation in the framework of compliance with the Green Deal, being involved in EU projects under Horizon 2020 as a coordinator, multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary projects, university-university collaboration and university-industry collaboration projects.

The application deadline for online winter high school program heen extended to 20 January 2022. 

Education programs will be delivered in two categories, namely Online Winter High School and Online Winter Nanotechnology School.

Entrance to university education: Winter High School

Organized by Sabancı University since 2011, the Winter High School aims to enable high school students to have university experience. 

Students at the Sabancı University Online Winter High School, which will be held from January 24 to February 4, 2022, can select courses from among more than 20 disciplines such as natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts, and management.  Students will receive online education for two weeks with learning sessions every weekday. 

Students curious about science will come together at the Online Nanotechnology Winter School

Sabancı University will organize the Online Nanotechnology Winter School for students curious about science from January 24 to February 4, 2022. 

Course content of the Online Nanotechnology Winter School has been created with the support of Sabancı University Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces on Nano Diagnostics (EFSUN) and Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM). Courses will be delivered by the University’s faculty members and researchers, and students can select courses that they are interested in. Courses span a wide range of subject areas including nano-manufacturing, battery operation principles, genetic diseases and gene therapy, and nanotechnology. 

Losing his family when he was a student at our university, our alumnus has established the “House of Imran” fund to support students who are successful and in need of financial support at our university, which he considers like his home.

Established for the first time among our alumni, this fund will provide scholarships to successful undergraduate students who need financial support.

You can donate to the account number below to contribute to the growth of the Fund and give scholarships to a higher number of students.

You can contact us to provide similar support by establishing a Scholarship Fund on behalf of yourself, your family or your graduation class.

Every piece of support will help our students have an easier educational life.

Accompanied by a delegation, Prof. Dr. Sezai Elagöz, Vice President of ASELSAN in charge of R&D, has paid a visit to Sabancı University.

Hosted by Yusuf Leblebici, President of Sabancı University, the visitors included Dr. Halidun Fildiş, Aselsan’s R&D Director and a big team of R&D researchers. During the three-day visit of Aselsan’s technical team to Sabancı University campus in Tuzla, related members of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences made presentations about their fields of study.

During the visit where Sabancı University talent and laboratory infrastructures were presented, Sabancı University researchers and Aselsan technical team had the opportunity to exchange information about potential cooperation areas. As a follow-up action of this visit, workshops are planned in early-2022 in the fields determined with the contribution of Sabancı University Ankara Project Office.

A scientific article, of which Ersin Göğüş, member of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences is one of the corresponding authors, was published in Nature journal on December 22, 2021. Collaborating with researchers from University of Bergen (Norway), Ersin Göğüş said the following about his article that was published: “High-frequency oscillations in the main peak of a magnetar giant flare are observed for the first time. These extremely high-frequency oscillations in the burst peak are a crucial component that will aid our understanding of magnetar giant flares”.

Covering the very-high-frequency oscillations, the article is further described below. 

 The Most Fascinating Show of a Far Magnetar

High-energy photons from a giant flare were detected by ASIM (Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor) instruments aboard the International Space Station on April 15, 2020 after covering a long distance in the deep space. It was found that the source of this giant flare was a neutron star with a strong magnetic field in NGC 253 galaxy, which is approximately 12 million light years[1] away from us. Findings obtained through ASIM can shed light on studies in this field.

Neutron stars are structures with matters that are the most intensive and still observable. A tablespoonful of neutron star placed on Earth's surface would weigh as much as Mount Everest. Neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields are called magnetars. Being more than a trillion times stronger than the magnetic field of the sun, these magnetic fields result in magnetar giant flares. Oscillations in the main peak of a magnetar giant flare are of very high-frequency, to such extent that they even paralyze[2] high-performance, new generation observation instruments.

Built with the support of ESA (European Space Agency) to observe gamma-ray flares close to the earth and operating aboard the International Space Station, ASIM is capable of recording very-high-frequency gamma-rays. Results obtained from the data collected with ASIM on April 20, 2020 are a breakthrough about magnetar giant flares: Very high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations are detected for the first time in the main peak of a magnetar giant flare.

High-frequency oscillations from very energetic flares are considered to result from interactions in the very strong magnetic field of a neutron star. Starquakes that can happen in neutron stars with the impact of magnetic pressure are also considered to play a role in the oscillations that are observed.

Projects of Özge Kemahlıoğlu, Junko Kanero and Çiğdem Bağcı members of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is entitled to receive support within the framework of the TUBITAK ARDEB 1001 Program - Scientific and Technological Research Project Support.

The project of Junko Kanero and Çiğdem Bağcı is entitled “Developing Attitudes towards Robots and Other Groups: Examining Human-Robot Interaction in Terms of Intergroup Contact”. This project consists of a series of experimental studies exploring how children and adults interact with and think about social robots. Using Intergroup Contact Theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew, 1997) as a conceptual framework, we empirically examine the psychological consequences of face-to-face contact with a robot. We aim to provide a comprehensive picture on the topic by testing a wide range of populations and measures in controlled environments.

The project of Özge Kemahlıoğlu, is entitled “How Voters Use Information When They Update Their Policy Expectations”. The literature analytically distinguishes between retrospective and prospective voting. Voters are expected to make their decision based on a review of the past performance of governments (retrospective evaluation) and a comparison of the expectations from policies of alternative governments (prospective evaluation). Recently the different steps of retrospective evaluation have been analyzed, including how the voters’ information affect their evaluations. However, not many studies have been conducted on the process of prospective evaluation.

This project aims to analyze how voters update their expectations based on available information. Information that can be used to form expectations about policies’ consequences can originate from different sources. Especially, in environments with limited media opportunities, information shared by the government can play an important role. Yet, the government would be expected to be more informed and decide strategically how it will share this information with the public. In a context of such asymmetric information not every voter will use this information and update her expectations.

According to the main hypothesis of this project, voters who are ideologically close to the government and the government will have similar interests, making the government more willing to share information accurately. Knowing this, ideologically close voters will be more inclined to think that the shared information is accurate and will update her expectation based on this information. We plan to test this hypothesis with a survey experiment.

Winners of the METU Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation 2021 Awards have been announced.

Ali Koşar, member of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM), and Co-Director of EFSUN Center, receives the 2021 METU Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Foundation Science Award, which is given to scientists who have contributed significantly to science at the international level with their scientific studies and research or to the development of the country with their scientific findings. 

Every year, the METU Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation rewards distinguished scientists for their efforts by recognizing their outstanding research and contributions in all fields of sciences, certifying their competencies and encouraging future talented researchers.

We congratulate our faculty member on his achievement!

Murat Germen, member of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), has become the winner of an international photography award with his photography series titled “Reuse of Abandoned Industrial Architectural Heritage”. Murat Germen’s photographs became the winner in Industrial Exterior category of the 1^st Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP).

Stating that he collaborated with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on this project, Murat Germen continued as follows: “They wanted me to document 6 abandoned industrial buildings they owned and wanted to transform into public buildings for reuse with various functions like museums, cultural centers, recreational centers, research centers, etc. The photo set will be used to open a solo show when the pandemic conditions allow visits. I personally value industrial architectural heritage very much and even did a solo show in year 2005 on this topic”.

The winners of “Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Awards” organized for the 12^th time this year by Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) in the memory of Dicle Koğacıoğlu, an academic and activist who passed away in 2009, were announced at an online conference on December 25. Articles by Dilan Alataş, Şehide Zehra Keleş Yüksel and Gözde Cöbek won the award.

Working to raise awareness regarding gender in Turkey with programs such as the Purple Certificate, Curious Steps, Transformative Activism, Gender Equality, and Gender, Diversity and Inclusivity, SU Gender  has been giving the Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Awards since 2010 with the support of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Science. Young researchers carrying out gender-focused research about Turkish society and culture can apply for the award program.

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Eren İnci, Vice-Dean of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Science, said the award program, delivered to support gender-focused studies in Turkey, was one of the most prestigious award programs in its field. He continued as follows: “The conference and the awards have continued with success for 12 years. I am glad to see the colleagues, friends, relatives and students of Dicle Koğacıoğlu who try to make her name survive despite so much time that has passed. I believe this is a very important and very meaningful thing. Dicle carried out important studies in the field of sociology of law, particularly about the role of gender equality in this field. I can see how the mechanisms that Dicle mentioned years ago shed light to our day, and notice how she wrote sentences above and beyond her time. I also feel upset because I have remembered once again that on the eve of 2022, in a new millennium, we are not yet at the desired level in terms of gender equality. I am sure the future will be better, and we will live beautiful days in peace and prosperity”.

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Hülya Adak, Director of SU Gender, said the following: “Once again, Dicle, our dear colleague and friend who highlighted the evolution of sociology of law in Turkey and its intersection with gender brought us together today on occasion of the Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Awards Conference and Award Ceremony organized for 12 years”.  She continued as follows:

“Thanks to this tradition that we have sustained since 2010, deans and members of our faculty, students and friends of Dicle, and all other students, researchers, artists and authors inspired by the work of Dicle have taken inspiration from these gatherings and moved to brand new fields of study over the years. Researchers coming together at these gatherings had a chance to get their articles published in the book entitled Gender Cultures in Turkey compiled by Ayşecan Terzioğlu and Cenk Özbay. As her friends, colleagues, students, family and researchers who knew and learned a lot from her, we prepared and published a video about Dicle in 2020. Over the years, the Dicle Koğacıoğlu Awards Ceremony became an example for other awards and ceremonies. In 2017, the Şirin Tekeli Awards Ceremony was added to our gatherings. This year, within the framework of the Purple Certificate Program, we have started to give awards to primary and high school teachers for their extraordinary and outstanding classroom practices on the axis of gender equality. All these works are inspired by the Dicle Koğacıoğlu Conferences.”

THIS AWARDS LET US MEET NEW DİCLEs

Nevzat Süer Sezgin, mother of Dicle Koğacıoğlu, thanked everyone who contributed to the conference and the ceremony, particularly Sabancı University and SU Gender. She said: “These efforts keep us connected to life. This award makes us bigger and extends our lives as family members of Dicle. We get to know new Dicles. The research they carry out, particularly in the field of gender equality, make me have a hopeful perspective for the future”.

Murat Koğacıoğlu, father of Dicle Koğacıoğlu, said the following: “Dicle’s friends, colleagues, students did the best thing that could have been done after a fried who passed away. These awards are very important to keep the memory of Dicle alive. We lost Dicle, so did the sociology of law”.

Necmiye Alpay, an author attending the opening chat of the conference, talked about her long-term friendship and a couple of memories with Dicle Koğacıoğlu.

Following the opening chat, two separate panels were held moderated by Biray Anıl Birer and Şeyma Gümüş. The winners of this year’s awards were announced in the panel: Dilan Alataş - “Autism Mothers: Care Labor and Critical Imagination of Parenting”, Şehide Zehra Keleş Yüksel - “Hosting the Public: Home Visits for Social Study Purposes and Public Imaginations of Housewives”, Gözde Cöbek - “When Harry meets Sally (on an online application): Heterosexual Online Flirting World in Turkey”.

Within the framework of the conference, Göksu Köktürk made a presentation entitled “A Look through Women Consumers on the Relation of Femvertising with Gender Equality in the Context of Post Feminism and Meta Feminism”.

ARTICLE AWARDS:

1. Dilan Alataş, “Autism Mothers: Care Labor and Critical Imagination of Parenting”

2. Şehide Zehra Keleş Yüksel, “Hosting the Public: Home Visits for Social Study Purposes and Public Imaginations of Housewives”

3. Gözde Cöbek, “When Harry meets Sally (on an online application): Heterosexual Online Flirting World in Turkey”

You can reach the film that SU Gender prepared for Dicle Koğacıoğlu and the book prepared last year from the links below. 

https://gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu/toplum-ve-bilim/turkiyede-cinsiyet-kulturleri-dicle-kogacioglu-kitabi 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6cwLUQBVIY&t=1514s

About Dicle Koğacıoğlu:

Dicle Koğacıoğlu was born in 1972 in Izmir. After graduating from the Boğaziçi University Sociology Department, she continued her doctoral studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the fields of sociology and women’s studies. From 1997-1998, she worked as a research assistant for the international project entitled “Constitutional Law and The Modernization of Political Institutions in the Islamic Middle East.” In the same year she took part in the Human Right Watch project “Freedom of Expression in Turkey” as a consultant and translator. In 1999, she returned to Boğaziçi University and worked as an instructor in the Sociology department. She acted as a coordinator at the İzmit Doğukışla Rehabilitation Center for a project by Women for Women’s Human Rights that was organized for children who were traumatized after the 1999 Marmara earthquake. In the same period, she acted as an editorial assistant for the book Women and Sexuality in the Muslim World. She continued her graduate research from 2002-2004 at Columbia University and Brown University’s Pembroke Women’s Studies Center. After beginning to work as an instructor for the Sabanci University Arts and Social Sciences faculty, Dicle Koğacıoğlu made important contributions to the development of the undergraduate and graduate Cultural Studies programs and gender-based projects. At the same time, she led projects that were attentive to the deaths in the Tuzla shipyards, to the problems of the subcontractor system found in every domain of life, including the university, and to inequalities and injustices experienced in every area.

Dicle Koğacıoğlu’s doctoral thesis was a major contribution to the advancement of the sociology of law in Turkey and to the recognition of gender within that field. Entitled “Law in Context: Citizenship and Reproduction of Inequality in an Istanbul Courthouse,” it was the recipient of the Middle East Competition Award by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and the Middle East Awards (MEAwards) by the Population Council. Her articles that underscore the decisive role of law and the state in honor killings continue to be widely used in both international academic studies and within Turkey. When she left us in the year 2009, Dicle Koğacıoğlu was creating a space for research about access processes to justice, and at the same time she was investigating how the September 12, 1980 coup was perceived and understood by lawyers.