The EFSUN SABANCI Frontiers in Material Surfaces and Interfaces Workshop was held at the Biotechnology Institute-Gebze Technical University on June 12, 2024. The workshop brought many students, experts, engineers and researchers from various disciplines together thanks to its rich content.

The late Dr. Kemal Derviş, former Member of the International Board of Overseers of Sabancı University, who served as the Minister of State for the Economy in the 57th Government of the Republic of Turkey and who contributed greatly to the university with his valuable ideas and works, starting from the Search Conference in 1995, where the foundations of Sabancı University were laid, was commemorated on the first anniversary of his passing with an event organized by Sabancı University and Istanbul Policy Center.

The project entitled "VALPOP- Valuing Public Goods in a Populist World: A Comparative Analysis of Network Dynamics and Societal Outcomes", in which Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Member Fatih Serkant Adıgüzel participates as a researcher, has been deemed entitled to support from the European Commission within the scope of the Horizon Europe Program.

Besides the project partners of HYSouthMarmara, key stakeholders in the hydrogen ecosystem, company representatives, and academics participated in the first workshop of the HYSouthMarmara Hydrogen Valley Project, held at Sabancı University Performing Arts Center.  Coordinated by the South Marmara Development Agency (GMKA) and conducted by a consortium of 15 partners, the "HYSouthMarmara - South Marmara Hydrogen Shore" Project is an important step for the green transformation of Turkish industry and revitalizing the hydrogen ecosystem.

The countdown has begun for the Sabancı University 2024 Commencement Ceremony. The 22nd undergraduate and 25th graduate commencement ceremonies, at which our Founding Chair of the Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı and our President Yusuf Leblebici will deliver opening speeches, will take place on Saturday, June 29, 2024, on Sabancı University Tuzla Campus.

2023-2024 Academic Year Summer Term Special Student Applications

The project of FENS and EFSUN researcher Gül Kozalak received EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant for exchanges and collaborations between research groups of  Micro-Nano Scale Heat Transfer & Microfluidics research group at Sabanci University and The BioInterfaces group at  University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

The 2024 Munich Alumni Meeting took place on Saturday, June 8, at Bamberger Haus in Munich. Our President Yusuf Leblebici, FENS Dean Erkay Savaş, Dean of Sabancı Business School Ayşegül Toker, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Eren İnci, and our Director of Institutional Partnerships and Alumni Relations Cenk Efe Bayırlı attended the meeting in which 100 alumni participated.

Prof. Bedir Tekinerdoğan, from Wageningen University & Research, Hollanda, will be guest at the Nano Open Webinar on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 between 11.00-12.00 at Zoom.