Activities organized by IICEC continued unabated during the summer period. The newsletter prepared as part of these activities is now available.

The Sabancı University Professional Graduate Programs Commencement Ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 11th on the Sabancı University Tuzla Campus.

The International Foreign Policy, Defense, and Security School, organized by the Istanbul Policy Center, will take place in Karaköy from October 20 to 28, 2025.

The SU Gender Saturday Talks return this term. In the first session, we will come together with Yağmur Nuhrat. Moderated by Sabancı University faculty member Çağla Aydın, Nuhrat will deliver a talk titled “Gender and Sports: Binary, Inclusion, Fairness.”

Sabancı University hosted a full-day NMR Workshop on September 10th, held in collaboration with EFSUN – the Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces, Oxford Instruments, and Tekafos Technological Systems.

An Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Workshop was held on September 11th with the participation of Sabancı University academics and employees of Sabancı Holding companies.

As Sabancı University celebrates its 25th anniversary, it revisits its roots and the story of its founding. This special feature is compiled from the book "Founding a University," written by Güler Sabancı, Chair of the Sabancı University Board of Trustees, which provides anecdotal accounts of our university's founding, vision, and development journey.

The Open Space Workshop held at Sabancı University turned into a productive gathering thanks to the contributions of academics and administrative staff.

Dr. Fatma Coşkuner, Head of Education and Learning Programmes at The Sakıp Sabancı Museum, has contributed an article entitled “Meditating on Aivazovsky’s Black Sea: Representing Russian Imperial Expansion” to the edited volume The Routledge Companion to Art and the Formation of Empire, published by Routledge.

Sabancı University, with support from the enCRYPTON project funded by the European Union under the coordination of Erkay Savaş, successfully hosted the 6th International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security & Privacy (LightSEC 2025). The workshop took place on September 1–2, 2025 at the Conrad İstanbul Bosphorus in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Türkiye, and was chaired by Erkay Savaş (Sabanci University), Amir Moradi (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Gregor Leander (Ruhr University Bochum).