An interview with Manufacturing Systems Engineering professor Bahattin Koç on his 3D Aorta Tissue Printing Project was broadcast in the “Yeni Ufuklar” show on CNN Türk TV on Saturday, October 4th, 2014 at 7.25 pm.

Please click below for the interview with Bahattin Koç on the 3D Aorta Printing project (in Turkish)

Sabancı University School of Management’s Executive MBA program goes on Financial Times ranking for world's best management schools!

Sabancı University School of Management’s Executive MBA program was included in Financial Times’ global ranking for “Top Executive MBA Programs” 2014.  This is the first time the Sabancı University School of Management is ranked among the top 100 universities of the world in Executive MBA programs, making it another impressive achievement for the School of Management.

The Sabancı Executive MBA program continues to provide value to its participants with numerous international achievements and recognitions.  The latest was inclusion in the Financial Times ranking, whose criteria include alumni career potential, performance and salary increase, international profile and research performance of faculty members, percentage of female students and percentage of international students.

Speaking on the inclusion of the Sabancı University School of Management in the Financial Times ranking, Dean Füsun Ülengin said, “As the Sabancı University School of Management, we move closer to our goal of internationalization with great strides year after year.  We have proven our worth with the AACSB accreditation, one of the most prestigious recognitions worldwide.  We have made a strategic partnership agreement with the MIT Sloan School of Management, one of the world’s best management schools, and become their only partner in the region.  Finally, we were included in the Executive MBA category of the Financial Times Global Ranking.  It is a great honor for a young management school to enjoy these successes and be on the same list with the leading management schools of the world.  I am confident that my team and I will achieve even greater success in the future.”

World Energy Outlook 2014 – The launch of the Africa Special Report, Turkey took place in Sabancı Center:

“Energy Sector is the Key to Africa's Development”

Istanbul (20 October 2014) Sabancı University International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) and APCO Worldwide organized the Turkey launch meeting for “World Energy Outlook 2014 - Africa Special Report” on 20 October 2014 in Sabancı Center.

The meeting started with opening remarks from APCO Worldwide’s Istanbul Office Managing Director Zeynep Dereli and Sabancı University President Prof. Dr. Nihat Berker’s and continued with International Energy Agency (IEA) Chief Economist Dr. Fatih Birol’s presentation.

Business representatives who are currently investing or planning to invest in Africa, academics and experts attended the launch meeting, which discussed in detail Africa’s energy sector, and important opportunities regarding its energy potential.

“Economic and social development in sub-Saharan Africa hinges critically on fixing the energy sector,” said IEA Chief Economist Dr. Fatih Birol. “The payoff can be huge; with each additional dollar invested in the power sector the overall economy is boosted by $15.”

Increasing access to modern forms of energy is crucial to unlocking faster economic and social development in sub Saharan Africa, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Africa Energy Outlook, a Special Report from the 2014 World Energy Outlook series. More than 620 million people in the region (two-thirds of the population) live without electricity, and nearly 730 million people rely on dangerous, inefficient forms of cooking. The use of solid biomass (mainly fuelwood and charcoal) outweighs that of all other fuels combined, and average electricity consumption per capita is not enough to power a single 50-watt light bulb continuously.

In the IEA’s first comprehensive analysis of sub-Saharan Africa, it finds that the region’s energy resources are more than sufficient to meet the needs of its population but are largely under-developed. The region accounted for almost 30 percent of global oil and gas discoveries made over the last five years, and it is already home to several major energy producers, including Nigeria, South Africa and Angola. It is also endowed with huge renewable energy resources,

including excellent and widespread solar and hydro potential, as well as wind and geothermal.

About APCO Worldwide:

Founded in 1984, APCO Worldwide is an independent global communication, stakeholder engagement and business strategy firm with offices in more than 30 major cities throughout the world. We challenge conventional thinking and inspire movements to help our clients succeed in an ever-changing world. Stakeholders are at the core of all we do. We turn the insights that come from our deep stakeholder relationships into forward-looking, creative solutions that always push the boundaries. APCO clients include large multinational companies, trade associations, governments, NGOs and educational institutions. The firm is a majority women-owned business. For more information, please visit www.apcoworldwide.com.

About Sabancı University International Center for Energy and Climate:

Working with governments, partners from industry, international organizations, think-tanks and other research bodies, establishing a network of cooperation with other universities in the region and in the world; IICEC aims to inform policy makers, industry, academics and opinion leaders on key energy challenges and provide them with objective and genuine analysis. We foster the exchange and development of ideas by providing a distinguished platform gathering key stakeholders involved in energy and climate fields.

The decision to establish the Istanbul International Centre for Energy and Climate was motivated by the growing role of Turkey in the international energy landscape and the strategic position of Istanbul, where Europe and Asia meets. The Center, at Sabancı University Karaköy Minerva Palace in Istanbul, is located at the crossroads of almost all current and emerging energy players, both on the producing and consuming sides of global energy markets. Utilizing this strategic position, IICEC will serve to fill the need for an international approach with international resources to the future of energy and climate topics, as a globally recognized networking center.

Sabancı University International Autophagy Symposium

Leading scientists of the world working on autophagy, a new and emerging field of biomedicine and molecular cell biology, will be in Turkey on October 21st and 22nd, 2014 in association with Sabancı University and the Turkish Biochemistry Association. 

Autophagy is one of the fundamental biological mechanisms that recycles intracellular structures.  Autophagy dysregulations are observed in many diseases including intracellular protein degradation disorders, ageing, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and infectious diseases.  Autophagy is a very basic and hot field of research that is extremely important for human health.  The purpose of the meeting is to raise awareness and interest in the field of autophagy in Turkey. Within scientific circles, there are talks of autophagy being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in the future.

Sabancı University has Turkey’s only active autophagy laboratory

Autophagy dysregulations are observed in many diseases including intracellular protein degradation disorders, ageing, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and infectious diseases. Consequently, major drug companies worldwide are investing significant sums to discover and clinically validate novel drugs modulating autophagy.  Currently there are around 200-250 labs dedicated to the study of various aspects of autophagy in the world, and around 150 labs are in Europe.  The lab of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences faculty member Devrim Gözüaçık is the only active autophagy lab in Turkey.

Devrim Gözüaçık is a doctor of medicine and an expert on molecular cell biology and genetics.  His work on autophagy received science awards from Roche, European Molecular Biology Organization, Turkish Academy of Sciences and Istanbul Kültür University.  In his research at Sabancı University, Gözüaçık leads pioneering studies in the connections between autophagy dysregulation and diseases like cancer and Parkinson’s.  Dr. Gözüaçık is an editor of Autophagy journal printed in Texas and considered the leading publication in the field, and sits on the board of the New York-based International Cell Death Society.  He is an academic referee for many national and international research institutions including Cancer Research UK, Wellcome Trust, UK, The Health Research Board, Ireland, Research Foundation Flanders, FWO (Belgium) and TÜBİTAK.  In addition, Dr. Gözüaçık is internationally recognized for his work on programmed cell death. 

Other speakers in the symposium

The invited speakers are top level scientists who are World class pioneers in their respective fields. They are all famous in the field of autophagy:

Richard Lockshin (USA): One of the pioneers of the "Programmed Cell Death Field" and a prominent scientist in the "Autophagy and Cell Death Field", writer of many popular science books. He is the first person in the history to coin the term “Programmed Cell Death” in his early seminal works, opening the way for one of the major fields in current biomedical research. Dr Lochshin is also the founder of the “International Cell Death Society” that brings together researchers from varying backgrounds and countries to each other, in an attempt to foster international cooperation and collaborations based on new and different ideas in biomedical research.

Ana Maria Cuervo (USA): The founder of the "Chaperone-mediated Autophagy (CMA) Field", prominent scientist in the "Ageing Research Field". She continued the work of Fred Dice, her former mentor and single handedly discovered the basic mechanisms  governing this very basic biological phenomenon. Her work also showed the importance of CMA dysregulation in human diseases including ageing, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease).

Zahra Zakeri (USA): Prominent scientist in the "Viruses and Autophagy Field", Chairperson of the "International Cell Death Society" and the "Scientists without Borders Initiative". Her work layed foundations of research on cell death regulation mechanisms. Moreover, she made important contributions that allowed a better understanding of how viruses currently threatening humanity, including Ebola and Dengue and Influenza abuse autophagy mechanisms for their infection, multiplication and spread.  

Jörn Dengjel (Germany): Prominent Scientist in the field of "Proteomics of Autophagy". He published landmark papers revealing how autophagy networks are connected at a protein level. He published important work relating autophagy to immunity, cancer and lifespan. 

In addition, young scientists Devrim Öz-Arslan (Acıbadem University) and Elif Damla Arısan (Istanbul Kültür University) will present their work on autophagy.

By Melek Sarı

Introductory remarks were made by Sabancı University Faculty Member and European Journal of Women’s Studies editor Ayşe Gül Altınay, Sabancı University Faculty Member Hülya Adak, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty Member Kathy Davis.  Introductory remarks were followed by panel discussions.

The 20th anniversary of the EJWS coincides with a highly politicized moment shaped by austerity regimes that accompany various crises, rise of conservative and racist political movements (with significant numbers of women participating in them), grassroots urban movements reclaiming public spaces and challenging the limits of representative politics, neoliberal biopolitics expanding the control of bodies to the genetic and the molecular, and seemingly contradictory changes in gender and sexuality regimes – the expansion of rights for women and non-normative sexualities accompanying hate crimes, sexual violence and new forms of control and repression. On the southern and eastern edges of Europe, women have played a key role in the “revolutions” that have changed authoritarian regimes, and are now facing religious and political backlash. In the case of Syria and Iraq, women’s lives are destroyed or torn by war and sexual violence, turning them into one of the most vulnerable group of refugees in Europe and the Middle East. Challenges of climate change and the increasingly difficult access to water and other resources are adding to women’s vulnerability.

As feminist scholars, we find ourselves faced with some difficult questions. For instance, while the legalization of same-sex marriage in so many states would have been unthinkable only a decade ago, such “normalization” risks intersectional politics and solidarity across class, race, ethnicity and religion. Moreover, terms like “gender equality” and “women’s liberation” have become incorporated by right-wing movements which involve significant mobilization of women. How have feminist activists and scholars dealt with such incorporation? How do we respond to such mobilization (of women, LGBTI individuals, or feminist/queer conceptual tools) for conservative and racist agendas? Are the tools developed by feminist theory and activism through the years adequate to respond to the vast changes taking place in our social and political milieu? Or do we need “new words, new methods” (to paraphrase Virginia Woolf)? Do we see “new words, new methods” coming out of the various grassroots or transnational movements that are emerging?

This conference aims to provide a dynamic forum to discuss the narratives of contemporary political change from a feminist perspective, focusing on two main threads: Understanding the gendering and sexualization of narratives of contemporary political change and analyzing the ways in which feminist and LGBTI movements respond to narratives of political change and/or construct alternative narratives.

Established to foster high-quality scientific cooperation with universities and research institutions in Germany, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation provides a number of support programs.

A briefing session will be hosted by President Nihat Berker from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 at the Cinema Hall to provide more information about Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation support programs.

Representing AvH will be Dr. Nora Jennifer Schneevoigt (Programme Director Europe, Sponsorship and Network Department), and a large number of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers and doctorate students in particular are expected to attend.

Sabancı University faculty who have received Alexander von Humboldt Foundation support in the previous years:

AvH Research Award

Professor A. Nihat Berker 

AvH Georg Forster Research Award

Professor İsmail Çakmak

AvH Fellows

Dr. Hülya Adak 

Professor Hasan Mandal 

Dr. İbrahim Burç Mısırlıoğlu 

Dr. Cleva Ow-Yang 

Professor Cihan Kemal Saçlıoğlu 

Sabancı University and the leading German scientific center IHP-Microelectronics establish a first in Turkey: the Microelectronics – Joint Virtual Excellence Lab based on the “More-than-Moore” concept.

The Microelectronics Research Group of the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the leading German scientific center IHP-Microelectronics join their scientific experience and resources in a Microelectronics – Joint Virtual Excellence Lab based on the “More-than-Moore” concept.

The Microelectronics Research Group of the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences has been undertaking successful cooperation projects with the leading German scientific center IHP-Microelectronics since 2008.  The two cutting-edge institutions now join their scientific experience and resources in a Microelectronics – Joint Virtual Excellence Lab based on the “More-than-Moore” concept.  This initiative is expected to take scientific studies to a new level that is novel to Turkey and rare abroad as well, leading to more effective studies both in Turkey and on a European level.  The motto of the More-than-Moore concept is to develop smaller, functional, economical, versatile and long-lasting electronic systems.  This has potential to contribute to many industries including communication, biomedicine, aerospace, aviation, security, automotive and robot-automation.

The lab was established at the signing ceremony and conference held at the SUNUM facility on the Sabancı University Tuzla campus on Thursday, October 16, 2014, hosted by Sabancı University President Professor Nihat Berker and attended by IHP-Microelectronics Rector Professor Bernd Tillack, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and representatives from the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, TÜBİTAK, and related sectors.

The research and development-focused cooperation of IHP-Microelectronics, a major technology provider to the leading wireless communication companies of the world, and Sabancı University is the first example of a pioneering model in Turkey.  The IHP - Sabancı University Joint Virtual Lab – Center of Excellence will enable easier access of other universities, research institutions and companies in Turkey to research and development in the field, serving to increase cooperation.

The projects in the Center of Excellence will be particularly useful to the electronics and communication, health (biomedical), satellite-aerospace, aviation, security, automotive, robot-automation and environmental industries.  The social benefit aspect of the cooperation and resulting projects will be safer, healthier, more economical and environmentally-friendly project outputs.

The objectives of the Sabancı University and IHP-Microelectronics Joint Virtual Excellence Lab are:

Extending the research capabilities by using a complementary research approach; strengthening the position for joint project applications; increasing international visibility; attracting excellent students and researchers for joint project work; and bringing in high level teaching (lectures, internships at IHP, and visiting scientists) based on advanced IHP and Sabancı’s research topics.

Supported by the technological infrastructure and knowhow of Sabancı University and IHP-Microelectronics, the ‘Center of Excellence’ will help to demonstrate successful German Turkish cooperation on scientific as well as political levels. 

"It is our goal is to strengthen the cooperation between Turkey and Germany in the fields of science and research. Therefore, I expressly welcome the special commitment of the IHP-Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics in Frankfurt (Oder) and the technological cooperation with its partner in Istanbul. I wish both partners every success in their cooperation," said the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Johanna Wanka. "This cooperation reflects the aim of the German-Turkish Year of Science 2014, namely the further expansion of joint activities in research, education and innovation with projects that point the way to the future."

IHP Scientific Director Professor Bernd Tillack said: “The Joint Lab is targeting on topics which offer us the opportunity to do research on a high level and deliver results with large social impact in both countries. For this research both partners bring in complementary research concepts. That evokes important synergy effects and creates a win-win situation. This will attract highly motivated young people for our research projects, another important advantage of working together with Sabancı University. We regularly have a group of students from Sabancı working in IHP for a couple of months every year. The Joint Lab with its very attractive and exciting research topics will help both of us to attract even more highly motivated students in the future.”

Sabancı University - IHP Microelectronics cooperation track record since 2007:

The cooperation between the two institutions started in 2007 based on mutual topics of interest defined under a Memorandum of Understanding.  The model of cooperation includes scientific exchange of ideas, scientist/student exchanges, and sharing facilities and services.  As a result of the cooperation, there are 4 Sabancı University graduates (BSc, MSc and PhD level) working as a full-time researhers at IHP.  Researchers from the two institutions make at least 3 joint publications per year.  Other outputs include more than 5 successfully completed, on-going or under evaluation sponsored projects from Turkish, German and EU funding Agencies/schemes, along with  more than 20 jointly-published journal and conference papers from these project outputs, more than 5 graduate students’ dissertations, over 15 undergraduate graduation  projects and internship opportunities for over 15 students.

About Sabancı University

Sabancı University was established in 1999 as Turkey’s first university without departments, and enables students to choose their diploma programs at the end of their first year.  Sabancı University is the first university to host the global leaders in sustainability and sign the United Nations Global Compact.  Sabancı University was at the top of the "University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Index" compiled by the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and is also the first Turkish private university to be included in the top 200 (182nd place) of the Times Higher Education (THE) 2014 Rankings.  Furthermore, Sabancı is among the top 500 of the QS 2014 World University Rankings. http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/

About the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Microelectronics Research Group

Led by Professor Yaşar Gürbüz, the Sabancı University Microelectronics Research Group conducts 

research and development of CMOS and SiGe-BiCMOS based integrated devices, circuits and system solutions, MEMS, detectors/sensors & actuator solutions for wireless communication, biomedical and medicine, surveillance and security, aerospace and industrial applications. The Group also has micro and nanofabrication capabilities provided by Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM). http://microsystems.sabanciuniv.edu/

About IHP-Microelectronics

The IHP is an institute of the Leibniz Association and conducts research and development of silicon-based systems and ultra high-frequency circuits and technologies including new materials. It develops innovative solutions for application areas such as wireless and broadband communication, aerospace, biotechnology and medicine, automotive industry, security technology and industrial automation. The IHP employs approximately 300 people. It operates a pilot line for technological developments and the preparation of high-speed circuits with 0.13/0.25 µm BiCMOS technologies, located in a 1000 m² class 1 cleanroom. http://www.ihp-microelectronics.com/en/start.html 

By Melek Sarı

Sabancı University entered the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings at 182th position, becoming the Turkish university with the highest position upon first entry to the rankings, and was the only foundation university in Turkey to be included.

After only 15 academic years since its establishment, Sabancı University shares this prestigious position with three other Turkish universities: METU (85th), Boğaziçi (139th) and ITU (165th).

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are the only global university performance tables to judge research-led universities across all their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

Sabancı University President Nihat Berker said: “Sabancı University is a leading global research university with interdisciplinary education that focuses on research and the individual, an environment of free academic choice and performance, and a globally-influential faculty.  Our students make free and informed choices with respect to their diploma programs, and go on to make great contributions to research and have international outreach after graduation.  Sabancı University continues to be the most innovative and entrepreneurial university in Turkey.  We focus our research on applied and strategic areas to uphold our principles of advancing knowledge, supporting students, and contributing to the development of the society.  Research in our university aims to enrich education programs on the one hand while contributing to social and economic development on the other.

“Sabancı University is the Turkish university that receives the most projects and funding per faculty member from Europe with almost TL 400,000 of research funding and 1.32 projects per faculty member.  We also have the highest number of incoming and outgoing exchange students to and from Europe.  Sabancı University ranked first one time and second two times on the Most Entrepreneurial and Innovative Universities Index issued by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology.

“Today, I am excited and proud to see Sabancı University among the top 200 on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings at its first appearance on the list – more so considering that we are only in our 15th academic year.  Our university has become an international point of reference with its vision, an institutional culture that is libertarian, participatory and respectful of diversity, an educational philosophy that is innovative, interdisciplinary and sensitive to the needs of all stakeholders, and creativity in research and education that enables the generation and dissemination of original knowledge that leads the way.

“In line with our mission of ‘Creating and Developing Together’ we develop internationally competent and confident individuals, enriched with the ability to reflect critically and independently, combined with a strong sense of social responsibility; and contribute to the development of science and technology on a global level, as well as disseminating the knowledge created to the benefit of the community.

“We are empowered by the international achievements of our university, such as inclusion in international rankings that prioritize research capabilities like the Times Higher Education list.  This is a result of our commitment to upholding our vision and mission since the day we were established.”

About the Times Higher Education rankings:

THE World University Rankings are considered to be the globally most respected rankings that provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

THE contacted over 10,000 academics globally with the world’s most trusted academic survey to compile the rankings.  Fifty million citations were reviewed.  Positions were assigned based on 13 performance indicators in five categories.  The THE rankings are the only global university performance tables to judge universities across all five of their core missions.
 
THE assesses successful universities based on 13 performance indicators in teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook.  Although all performance indicators are balanced, number of citations and international reputation are the two most important indicators that are considered.

According to THE, Turkey achieved considerable progress compared to last year, where there was only one university among the top 200.  The fact that four universities are in the top 200 this year is owed to the number of citations received by scientific articles.  Also worth noting is the motivation that is spurred by the increase in research and development investments in the country.

The 13 performance indicators used in THE World University Rankings are grouped into five areas:

•    Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)
•    Research: volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
•    Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent)
•    Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
•    International outlook: staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).

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Demand Driven Institute (DDI) Turkish representative NOVACES International Yönetim Danışmanlığı will organize a “Certified Demand Driven Planner” (CDDP) training program on October 14th and 15th in association with Sabancı University and ISCEA (The International Supply Chain Education Alliance) to offer Demand Driven Materials Requirements Planning training in Turkey for the first time.

DDMRP is a formal planning and execution method designed to correct the inadequacies and inappropriate rules of conventional Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) given today's more volatile, complex and service-oriented supply and manufacturing scenarios.  The method was defined for the first time in Carol Ptak and Chad Smith’s Orlicky’s Material  Requirements Planning (Mc Graw Hill -2011).

The implementation of DDMRP allows the following benefits simultaneously:
-    95% or better performance in levels of service
-    25% to 40% reduction in inventory levels
-    Up to 80% reduction in delivery times

The training will be delivered by ISCEA CDDP Program Director Chad Smith.
For details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/certified-demand-driven-planner-cddp-traini...

About NOVACES International Yönetim Danışmanlığı:
The company was founded in affiliation with the founders of the US-based management consultancy company NOVACES LLC in 2014.  Located in Istanbul, the company provides services to public and private institutions on Demand Driven Materials Requirements Planning (DDMRP), Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and Focused Performance Management (System-CPI).  The company is the Turkish representative of the Demand Driven Institute.  For more information about NOVACES International, please visit.

About the Demand Driven Institute:
The Demand Driven Institute (DDI) was founded in 2011 by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, co-authors of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition.  For more information, please visit www.demanddriveninstitute.com

About ISCEA:
With over 120,000 members and organizations in 24 countries, ISCEA is the global leader in Supply Chain training and certification.  ISCEA develops internationally recognized certification programs and members of ISCEA work in the supply chains of Global2000 companies.  For more information please visit www.iscea.net

Since 2005, SGM has been livening up the campus with regular events in two seasons of October-November-December and March-April-May, and opens its curtains for the first time this year with a concert by Teoman with songs from his new hit album "Yavaş Yavaş."

Also in October are performances by the Talimane Theater, Çolpan İlhan-Sadri Alışık Theater and Tiyatro Kedi as well as a play performed by the Sabancı University Drama Club.

Tickets will be available on all Biletix outlets starting on September 30th.

** Sabancı University members can purchase tickets at reduced prices from the SGM Ticket Office at the university center by showing their university IDs.

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