A film made by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design faculty member Yoong Wah Alex Wong and his students won the "Royal Reel" for Animated Films in the 2016 Canada International Film Festival.

2004 Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design graduate Hayal Pozanti’s paintings at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the exhibition was reported in New York Times. Our graduate Hayal Pozanti’s “Deep Learning” pits technology against the human mind in the exhibition “Painting in Four Takes”. 

Kastamonu Entegre Ağaç Sanayi (KEAS) becomes the new learning partner of Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU. The Kastamonu Integrated Leadership Development Program was launched on Friday, February 19, 2016. The 18-month program will start with 21 executive-level participants.

Finalists of the High School Olympics hosted by the Sabancı University International Marketing and Student Recruitment Office in Kazakhstan received scholarships for undergraduate education at Sabancı University.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our Founding President, Professor Tosun Terzioğlu, a distinguished member of our community who played a large part in the establishment and development of our university.

We wish Professor Tosun Terzioğlu eternal peace and would like to offer our condolences to his family, friends, the science community in Turkey, and everyone at Sabancı University.

The farewell ceremony for Founding President Tosun Terzioğlu at Sabancı University was attended by Sabancı University Founding Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı, President Nihat Berker, the Sabancı community of faculty members, students, administrative employees and alumni as well as members of the Terzioğlu family and academics from various institutions and universities. 

Nergis Mavalvala, one of the leading figures in the MIT team that was part of the LIGO project group responsible for the discovery, was a visiting faculty member in Sabancı University during 2014. Mavalvala will be back for a longer period of time for her sabbatical.

Biological Sciences and Bioengineering 2008 graduate Eylül Harputlugil has been working on the genes and mechanisms through which limiting food intake prior to surgery provides protection to mice for her PhD in James Mitchell's lab at the Harvard University School of Public Health's Genetics and Complex Diseases Department. Eylül says that research on the correlation between limiting calorie/food intake and health has been finally cleared for human experimentation based on clinical testing, and shows positive results.

Business representatives in Turkey met at the Competitiveness Congress organized by TÜRKONFED, SEDEFED and TÜSİAD-Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum.

The 10th Competitiveness Congress was held under the theme of "Competitive Strength, Input Import Policies and Smart Regulations."