Due to the measures taken to prevent spreading of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, the Sakıp Sabancı Museum will be closed until 30 March 2020. 

SSM will reach out to everyone who previously purchased their tickets for the events scheduled to take place within this time frame at the Museum. 

Please follow our website and social media accounts to get the updates.

As Sabancı University, we have been strictly following up the coronavirus (COVID-19) cases accepted by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic (pandemic) and warn our students and employees about the epidemic by taking all necessary precautions within our campus.

• As of 23 March 2020, online education has started in our university. All educational activities planned for the 2019-20 Spring semester will be carried out online. 
• Our campus will be closed to visitors and students as of March 16, 2020. 
• All educational units, dormitories, administrative units and commonly used areas have been disinfected and in order to prevent the virus from spreading the use of common areas is restricted in this period. 
• All previously planned meetings in large halls such as the Performing Arts Center and the Cinema Hall have been cancelled until further notice. 

It is very important that all individuals act responsibly and sensibly to protect themselves from this illness. We trust that all our students, will pay special attention to these points. 

Courses

As of 23 March 2020, online education has started in our university. All educational activities planned for the 2019-20 Spring semester will be carried out online. 

We will continue online education activities during 13-19 April 2020, the period at which the Semester Break was planned. 

Arrangements related to the planning and the delivery method of the final exams will be shared with you in the coming days. 

Campus

All educational units, dormitories, administrative units and commonly used areas have been disinfected and in order to prevent the virus from spreading the use of common areas is restricted in this period. 

Our campus is closed to visitors and students. There will be no shuttle services.

Sports’ Center and halls, Information Center, bank and BAGEM will not provide service.

Health Center and the market will continue to provide service.

There are some rearrangements for dining hall to use. Only 2 people are allowed to sit at the 6-people table. 1 meters space between the lines should be kept while being served meals.

The delivery place for food orders from outside will be the main gate of the university.

Academic and Administrative Staff

All international travel arrangements of our academic and administrative staff, including those previously planned, have been canceled until a second announcement.

The "home office" working policy, which we launched for all our academic and administrative staff on 16 March 2020, has been extended until 30 April 2020.

Through this period, all work-related activities are expected to be carried out at home (if necessary by remote connection to the university network), and all personnel are expected to remain accessible via e-mail and phone, during working hours. 

Events

In this respect, based on an administrative decision, all previously planned meetings in large halls such as the Performing Arts Center and the Cinema Hall have been cancelled until further notice.

Abdurrahman Atçıl, associate professor of history at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University,  was awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, the most prestigious research award presented by ERC. 

Dr. Atçıl, one of the two researchers from Turkey who receives the ERC Consolidator Grant support this year, is interested in law, politics, religion, bureaucracy and education in the early-modern Ottoman Empire.  The awarded project, “OTTOLEGAL- The Making of Ottoman Law: The Agency and Interaction of Diverse Groups in Lawmaking, 1450-1650,” aims to expose the hybridity of Ottoman law by revealing the agency and interaction of diverse groups in the lawmaking process by examining the religio-legal opinions (fetva) of scholars and decrees of sultans (kanun).

OTTOLEGAL aims to develop a model of lawmaking that will account for diversity and change across time and space in early-modern societies. The OTTOLEGAL team will prepare a database with a web portal, including metadata, description, transliteration, translation, and essays of scholarly analysis for the key sources of the project.  In addition, three monographs and one sourcebook will be written and published, and two international conferences will be organized and their papers published in two edited volumes.

The ERC Consolidator Grants support researchers who have received his/her PhD 7-12 years prior to the application date and who have already shown research independence and evidence of maturity in their field and provide up to two million euros for original and groundbreaking research projects  for a period of five years. Among the ERC awardees, there are several Nobel Prize winners.

Regarding ERC Consolidator Grant support, Dr. Atçıl said “Thanks to the resources provided by the Consolidator Grant, I, together with a team of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, will delve into the examination of the formation of legal norms in the Ottoman Empire. I hope that the project works will enable us to develop a new perspective for Ottoman legal history, open new frontiers in the study of history and law and lead to significant results.”  

Who is Abdurrahman Atçıl?

Abdurrahman Atçıl received his PhD degree from the University of Chicago in 2010. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Law School. Before joining Sabancı University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the Spring semester of 2020, Dr. Atçıl taught  at Queens College of the City University of New York and Istanbul Şehir University. He has many published works on diverse topics such as the relationship between philosophy and law in the Islamic legal tradition, the diverging attitudes of Islamic scholars in the Ottoman-Safavid confrontation, law during the Mamluk-Ottoman transition. His book, Scholars and Sultans in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Dr. Atçıl was awarded Turkish Academy of Sciences’ (TÜBA) award for outstanding young researchers (GEBİP) in 2015 and Science Academy’s award for young researchers (BAGEP) in 2018. 

gazeteSU mailings will be sent 2 days a week, on Tuesday and Thursday, starting from March 17, 2020. 

You can continue to follow news and announcements about Sabancı University daily from GazeteSU homepage.

Dear Sabancı University Employees,

Our university administration has decided to adopt a "home office" policy for all academic and administrative staff, effective Monday 16 March 2020, until a second announcement. Through this period, all work-related activities are expected to be carried out at home (if necessary by remote connection to the university network), and all personnel are expected to remain accessible via e-mail and phone, during working hours.

The list of personnel who need to be physically on campus (and on other locations of the university) for the continuity of various tasks and campus operations has to be sent by the related unit directors to the Human Resources office, by 22:00 today (15 March 2020). Academic personnel who prefer to continue their activities in the faculty/center building shall inform their respective deans/center directors, accordingly.

Personnel shuttle / transportation services will operate normally on Monday 16 March 2020, and will be suspended for the remainder of the "home office" period.
 
Sincerely,
Yusuf Leblebici

The exhibition Akış/Flux: Marina Abramović + MAI is temporarily closed. The ‘Single Entry’, March and April ‘Monthly Multiple Entries’ and ‘Entire Exhibition Multiple Entries’ tickets purchased earlier to visit the exhibition and could not be used within this time frame, will be valid once the exhibition is open.

However we will remain connected with you through our accounts and website, as well as our Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube accounts and, digital website, as well as our digital platform digitalSSM and Google Arts & Culture page during the closure. 

Sabancı University Faculty Member Turgay Bayraktar has been awarded with 'Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda Research Award' given by the Mathematics Foundation for his contributions to mathematics.

Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) Director Carmine Difiglio, has been interviewed by Fortune Turkey on “Decisions on the future of energy, policies in this area and energy geopolitics.”  

Please click to read Fortune Turkey’s interview.

Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) has released the ninth issue of IICEC Energy Market Newsletter. 

Please click to read IICEC Energy Market Newsletter 

M-ERA.NET is an ERA-NET Cofund project supported by the European Union (EU) Commission within the scope of Horizon 2020 to establish strong research and development partnerships on materials science and engineering among European countries.

SUNUM Researcher Alp Yürüm is granted a research project, within the scope of M-ERA.NET. In the project, Dr. Begüm Yarar Kaplan and Prof. Dr. Selmiye Alkan Gürsel will take part as researchers. The main aim of the LiBASED consortium is to develop Li-ion/supercapacitor hybrid (LIH) energy storage devices having a long life with high energy and power densities. 

ERA-NET Cofund under Horizon 2020 is a type of program co-fund action designed to support public-public partnerships, including joint programming initiatives between the Member States, in their preparation, the establishment of networking structures, design, implementation and coordination of joint activities as well as Union topping-up of a trans-national call for proposals.

Abbreviations:

SUNUM: Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center