RadyoSU DJ SHOWCASE 

RadyoSU invites everyone to "RadyoSU DJ SHOWCASE" which will be held on Wednesday, February 22 at 8 pm. 

Besides the DJ’s within the club, the ones that attended recently to RadyoSU family will also show their performances at RadyoSU DJ SHOWCASE, which will be held on Wednesday, February 22. The event will be in the old gym and the entrance will be free.

Date: 22 February 2017

Venue: Old gym

Make the Makerspace with Bilim Kantini!

Bilim Kantini invites everyone to share their expectations for shaping the Makerspace plan. Bilim Kantini arranged a meeting on 21 February where everyone will share their wishes and thoughts on a future Makerspace in Sabanci.

Makerspace

A makerspace is a community center that provides technology, manufacturing equipment and educational opportunities to the public. 

Makerspaces allow community members to design, prototype and manufacture items using tools that would otherwise be inaccessible or unaffordable such as 3-D printers, digital fabrication machines and computer aided design (CAD) software. The free exchange of ideas and resources is the main principle of makerspaces. Often, members of different makerspaces will collaborate on projects and share knowledge.

Join to discuss and share your wishes and thoughts.

http://mysu.sabanciuniv.edu/announcements/en/67643/make-makerspace

Date: 21 Şubat at 19.40

Venue: FASS G022

Sabanci University Summer School (June 28 - August 18, 2017) has a job
opening for university instructors concerning the following
undergraduate course in Mathematics:

MATH306 - Statistical Modelling         

The course will be conducted in English. For more information about the
course, please visit Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences website:

http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu/

The applicants should have previous teaching experience of this course
at the undergraduate level and should send a package containing their
C.V., and evidence of teaching ability to:

Sena Balkaya
Summer School Office
E-mail: summer@sabanciuniv.edu

Accommodation for accepted instructor will be provided at the Sabancı
University campus. Moreover, associated economy class return flight
tickets of accepted instructor will be reimbursed upon confirmation.

Application deadline is March 20, 2017. The evaluations will start
immediately.

The Sabancı University Entrepreneurship Council initiated a project titled "Incubation Center for Supporting National and International Marketing of Ventures" in association with the Entrepreneurship Foundation and Siemens Türkiye A.Ş., and the financial support of the Istanbul Development Agency.

The launch event of the project was held on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at the new city office in Impact Hub. Speaking in the launch event were Sabancı University Entrepreneurship Council Director Dilek Çetindamar, Inovent General Manager Merih Pasin, Entrepreneurship Foundation Director Mehru Aygül, Sabancı University Entrepreneurship Council Member Naci Kahraman, and String Ventures member Emrah Yalaz. Speeches were followed by a panel discussion on "The Benefits of Acceleration Programs to Entrepreneurs" with SUCool entrepreneurs.

Sabancı University Entrepreneurship Council Director Dilek Çetindamar explained that Sabancı University had been dedicated to raising entrepreneurial students since the first day, and continued “Entrepreneurship is part of the Sabancı University DNA. We always strive to innovate. Many of the things we have done are firsts." Discussing issues in the Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem, Çetindamar said that the project intended to prepare tech-based entrepreneurs for global markets.

Inovent General Manager Merih Pasin noted Turkey's position in the European Innovation and Global Competitiveness indexes, and argued that entrepreneurship had to be given much higher priority for Turkey to advance on the Global Competitiveness Index.

Entrepreneurship Foundation Director Mehru Aygül provided information about the foundation and spoke on the "Fellow" project for young individuals between 17 and 24.

Sabancı University Entrepreneurship Council member Naci Kahraman spoke on the activities of SUCool to date. He explained that their 2017 endeavors would be under the theme of Startup Globe. Naci Kahraman said that the project would provide acceleration and pre-incubation support to 20 tech-based startups, give access to the extensive SUCool mentor and investor network, hold two Demo Days in Istanbul, and hold one-week entrepreneurship camps in Silicon Valley and London for startups that wish to expand to global markets.

String Ventures member Emrah Yalaz shared his personal experiences. Emrah Yalaz said that teamwork and team culture were more important than anything for startups seeking to enter the global marketplace. Yalaz explained that business ideas which address real issues of customers would have more growth potential than competitors due to the value proposition they contained, and emphasized the importance of acting fast and going to market at the right time in competition.

The panel was moderated by Sabancı University Entrepreneurship Council member Ali Erhat Nalbant and featured Mental-up member Reşit Doğan, Shopier member Can Ozan Süner, Fazla Gıda member Olcay Silahlı and String Ventures member Emrah Yalaz as speakers. Panelists discussed "The Benefits of Acceleration Programs to Entrepreneurs". Other subjects included the core impact of acceleration programs and benefits to their own businesses.

About the "Incubation Center for Supporting National and International Marketing of Ventures" Project:

The Istanbul Development Agency 2016 Entrepreneurship Financial Support Program aims to enhance entrepreneurship culture in Istanbul, encourage creative and innovative entrepreneurship, and reinforce the entrepreneurship ecosystem to improve Istanbul’s global competitive strength and contribute to the economic and social development of the city.  

As part of the project implemented by Sabancı University, an acceleration and incubation center was built in 4. Levent, Istanbul for technology-based entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneurship Foundation and Siemens are project partners and sponsors of the incubation center.

The center will issue calls for application from entrepreneurs for training and mentorship support in two terms. The 20 entrepreneurs who are selected will receive acceleration training, mentorship support for business model validation and customer development, and entrepreneurs who want to expand to global markets will be able to attend international entrepreneurship camps in Silicon Valley and London to present themselves to investors in the most developed entrepreneurship ecosystems in the world. Further events will include Investor and Entrepreneur Meetings, Experience Sharing Events and Entrepreneurship Meetings in the city office throughout 2017.

The project enables Sabancı University to share its academic knowledge and proven track record in entrepreneurship with stakeholders in Istanbul's entrepreneurship ecosystem.

The Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) sponsored by Akbank hosted a lecture by London Business School faculty member Alex Edmans on “Relationship between Corporate Responsibility and Returns on Investment”.

The Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) established with the founding sponsorship of Akbank to achieve excellence in finance hosted a lecture by London Business School faculty member Alex Edmans at the Sabancı Center on Friday, February 3, 2017.

In his lecture titled “Relationship between Corporate Responsibility and Returns on Investment", Edmans argued that corporate social responsibility had to be envisaged together with profit. Defining corporate social responsibility as consideration by companies of stakeholders other than the shareholders of the company, Alex Edmans said that corporate social responsibility was based on thinking beyond short-term material income. Explaining the recent change in the concept of corporate social responsibility, Edmans said, “Companies need to consider many factors at once and think about the cumulative impact of all their decisions on profitability."

Edmans stated that were corporate social responsibility to become part of a company, investments that were deemed unthinkable before would come within reach. Discussing the question whether corporate social responsibility leads to profitability or companies that are already profitable engaging in corporate social responsibility, Edmans emphasized the difficulty of measuring social responsibility.

Employee satisfaction was another subject for Alex Edmans, who said that satisfaction had good effects on company value. Edmans said, “When employees are satisfied, they perform better and are more loyal to the company." Alex Edmans also noted that although customer satisfaction was costly, it paid dividends in the stock exchange. Edmans said that investing in corporate social responsibiltiy was not simply an option, but a productive area of business. Alex Edmans concluded by saying that when companies focus on short-term material gains instead of treating their employees well, they would be unable to come up with new products in the long term.

Our graduate Canan Dağdeviren receives Strong Women Award

Materials Science and Engineering 2009 MSc graduate Canan Dağdeviren won the third "Fatoş Büyükkuşoğlu Strong Women Award 2016" given by the Arya Women's Investment Platform.

The award ceremony, featuring Sabancı University faculty member Özge Akbulut as panelist, took place in Adana on February 7, 2017.

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) celebrates its 15th year with an exhibition on Feyhaman Duran, one of the leading members of the 1914 Generation, titled "Feyhaman Duran - Between Two Worlds."

More than 1000 pieces of the leading portrait artist's works and personal effects are on exhibit at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum in association with Istanbul University and the support of Sabancı Holding.

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) celebrates its 15th year with an exhibition on Feyhaman Duran (1886-1970), one of the leading members of the 1914 Generation, titled "Feyhaman Duran - Between Two Worlds" in association with Istanbul University and the support of Sabancı Holding.

The comprehensive exhibition portrays Feyhaman Duran's life with more than 1000 works born out of the artist's amalgam of tradition and Western art crafted during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic, sections of the house in Beyazıt where he and his wife Güzin Duran, also an artist, lived for most of their lives, and special exhibits illustrating his daily life and work environment.  Arranged with art supplies, furniture, and selections from a calligraphy collection, these exhibits provide a closer look into the life and times of a pioneer in Turkish art. The selection from Feyhaman Duran’s “private collection” includes portraits for which the artist was mostly known for, as well as landscapes, still lifes and pochades.

Speaking in the press conference for the opening of the exhibition, Sabancı University Founding Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı said: “We wanted to mark the beginning of our 15th anniversary by embracing our own values and featured an artist of this country. This exhibition is also important because it brings two academic institutions together.  Feyhaman Duran lived through the Ottoman Empire into the Republic. Therefore, this exhibition is a close look not only into Feyhaman Duran’s life and works, but also our country and its past, enabling us to make sense of things. As you know, Sakıp Sabancı Museum is a university museum that belongs to Sabancı University, one of the youngest universities in Turkey. This exhibition was possible thanks to Istanbul University, which happens to be the oldest university in Turkey. An institution with hundreds of years of history had confidence in the experience of a very young institution, and the two academic bodies collaborated in exemplary fashion. Istanbul University generously shared the works and personal effects of the artist. I hope that this close and constructive cooperation between two universities will inspire other institutions to do the same. We are living through difficult times. We believe that the best way to overcome difficulties is to work harder and produce more than ever. Art becomes even more meaningful in days like these. That is because art unifies, heals, improves, and shows us new ways to understand our past and present."

Speaking about the exhibition, Museum Director Dr. Nazan Ölçer said, “We are delighted to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Feyhaman Duran. We owe the unprecedented vastness and inclusion of this exhibition to our partnership with Istanbul University.  Before he died, Feyhaman Duran bequeathed his home and all furniture and other objects in it to Istanbul University for conservation, and after his wife passed away some time later, the University became the owner of not only the house, furniture and works of art, but also an entire world shaped by a long and illustrious life. The collection we have on exhibit today takes us to the intimate world of the artist. Hundreds of pochades, shared with no one except perhaps his wife, serve as a valuable guide into how the artist preferred to work.

When designing the exhibition, we traced the footsteps of Feyhaman Duran from his birth into an intellectual Ottoman family in 1886 through the traditional atmosphere of Istanbul and the 'alla franca' lifestyle prevalent in Beyoğlu at the time. We attempted to reconstruct the Istanbul of the artist's times with documentary footage we obtained from foreign sources. To understand the academic education he received, we followed him to Paris, to the École des beaux-arts and Académie Julian, and to help us envisage his life there, we contacted various archives and film museums abroad to obtain materials that depict the streets and quartiers of Paris in the 1910s. To provide a glimpse into Feyhaman and Güzin Duran's private life, we brought sections of their house located in Beyazıt, one of the oldest and most authentic neighborhoods in Istanbul, and inherited by Güzin Duran from her grandfather, the renowned calligrapher Yahya Hilmi Efendi, into our museum."

The exhibition of Feyhaman Duran’s life and works will be supported with documentaries, conferences and children's workshops to better illustrate the era of the artist, and includes photographs of documentary nature. An exhibition catalog containing essays on different periods in Duran's art, and a research on the role of the Khadiv Family, who enabled the artist to go to Paris, in the culture and arts of the late Ottoman Empire accompanies the exhibition as a rich primary source on the artist.

Feyhaman Duran’s art also depicts the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic and bears witness to the clashes, struggles and developments of the time. The exhibition follows Duran from a crumbling empire to Paris, the home of art, and ultimately back to his homeland engulfed in turmoil, illustrates how his adventurous journey influenced his art, and tells the tale of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the

Republic through the history of art.

As an artist whose work was always influenced by his concurrent experience of the East and the West, Feyhaman Duran is mostly known for his portraiture due to the demand for portraits in Republican Turkey; however, he was also a prolific painter of landscapes, still lifes and other genres.

Different aspects of Duran's work are illustrated by exhibits including the first live model nudes he painted in Paris to landscapes of various locations and settings, and still lifes that depict calligraphic paintings as objects.

The “Feyhaman Duran - Between Two Worlds” exhibition will continue until July 30 at the Sabancı University SSM.

Are you ready for Erasmus + and Global Exchange Applications for 2017-2018?

2017-2018 Academic Year Erasmus  + and Global Exchange Programs application period started.

Online Application Starts: 06.02.2017 @9am – Ends: 01.03.2017 @4pm.

For eligibility, application rules, agreements list and other details, please click.  

Sabanci University Summer School (June 28 - August 18, 2017) has a job opening for the following undergraduate course in Psychology:

PSY 303 - Research Methods

The course will be conducted in English. For more information about the course, please visit Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences website: http://fass.sabanciuniv.edu/

The applicants should have previous teaching experience of this course at the undergraduate level.

Applicants should send a package containing their C.V., and evidence of teaching ability to:
                    Sena Balkaya
                    Summer School Office
                    E-mail: summer@sabanciuniv.edu

Application due date is February 20, 2017. The evaluations will start immediately.

Dr. Carmine Difiglio assumed his new position of Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) Director

It is with pleasure that we announce that Dr. Carmine Difiglio has become the Director of Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) and Visiting Professor at Sabancı University as of January 2017.

Prior to this position, Professor Difiglio served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy and Head of Technology Policy at the International Energy Agency (IEA). At the IEA, he established the Energy Technology Perspectives model and Project (2001). Energy Technology Perspectives continues to this day as a flagship IEA publication by showing what technologies and investments are needed to meet G20 and Paris climate goals.

Professor Difiglio is a featured speaker on topics ranging from the international oil market, improving energy security, how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the prospects for avoiding the worst consequences of global climate change. His speaking engagements include Chatham House, the Aspen Institute, the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies and numerous conferences in London, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Geneva, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Delhi, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and many American cities. Professor Difiglio also serves as Co-Chair of the World Federation of Scientists’ Permanent Monitoring Panel on Energy and has chaired several Professional committees in various organizations including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the International Energy Agency. His publications include a wide variety of modeling and policy assessments concerning energy efficiency, motor-vehicle fuel economy, alternative energy supplies, greenhouse gas emissions, international oil markets and energy security. Professor Difiglio received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. For further information please visit http://iicec.sabanciuniv.edu