Professor Mahir Şaul of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will be giving the first FASS History Seminar of the 2010-2011 academic year on Tuesday, 12th October. The talk has been scheduled for 15:40 in Room G049 in the Arts and Social Sciences building.

Through the SU Scholarship Fund more than 800 of our University students in financial need have received scholarships. With your help, we could increase these numbers…

“Feature-based design and material blending for free-form heterogeneous object modeling”

Bahattin Koç with his student Kuntal Samanta was awarded the Top Cited Author at Computer Aided Design Journal for their previous work titled “Feature-based design and freeform modeling for heterogeneous objects"

In loving memory of Dicle Koğacıoğlu...

'Thinking of Dicle/Dicle'yi Düşünüyoruz'

Sabancı University Civic Involvement Projects (CIP) held the first ALL-CIP event of 2010 at the Karaköy Communication Center on Sunday, October 3rd.  The event brought together hall Sabancı University students who are team leaders and advisors for CIP, and the projects to take place in the 2010-2011 academic year were introduced.  The event included many fun activities for CIP members to plan their year.

Professor Selim Çetiner
Sabancı University

Known as the largest photography exhibition and coveted by millions, the Photokina has been providing an opportunity to various photography schools for exhibiting the works of their students at the “Academy Meets Photokina” event.

Orientation 2010, the event to introduce new students to Sabancı University, took place at the Sabancı University Performing Arts Center on Friday, September 24th.  Approximately 500 parents and students attended what could have been called a festival.

Dear Members of the Sabancı University Family, there is one computer that no others can hope to approach in terms of power: It is our brain, and the secret to its power is the direct connection between each and every signal-bearing cell with 10,000 other cells and the continous structural renewal of the brain based on the signals carried by these many connections. This illustrates the importance of inner communication and renewal. The renewed gazeteSU will certainly strengthen our communications.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Member Ayşe Kadıoğlu has been appointed as a member of the Council of Europe’s Group of Eminent Persons.

In light of the reference that the Council of Europe -as the guardian of the European Convention on Human Rights-  has the responsibility to defend the values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, the Group will meet between October 2010 and May 2011 in order to prepare a report.