“Urban Mobility in Smart Cities” workshop was held on December 20 in partnership with Sabancı University, Farplas/Farklabs and PWC Turkey on Farklabs’ Maslak campus.

The results of the “Entrepreneurial and Innovative University Index - 2021”, prepared under the leadership of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), have been announced by Mustafa Varank, the Minister of Industry and Technology. With a total score of 75.72, Sabancı University has been ranked as the most entrepreneurial and innovative foundation university.

Sabri Sayarı, emeritus faculty member of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), has been elected as the President of the Turkish Political Science Association. Berk Esen, member of FASS, also sits on the newly established board of the association chaired by Sabri Sayarı.

An article entitled “Insider Giving” by Süreyya Burcu Avcı, part-time faculty member at Sabancı Business School, has been published in the Duke Law Journal of the Duke School of Law in the US.

Prince Abdülmecid Efendi, who had a lasting effect on the Ottoman art world, is on view at SSM with a selection of artworks, most of which are together on view for the first time.

Organized by Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender), Curious Steps: Gender and Memory Walks were held after a long pandemic break in Beyoğlu on December 15, 2021.  

Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) has signed an agreement with the Abdi İbrahim company to develop biodegradable polymers, which are more sustainable and circular types of packaging, for use in primary packaging of consumer health products.

Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) is organizing a conference entitled “Electric Vehicles Outlook - Global & Turkey”.

With a fellowship from Loughborough University, Sabancı University Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Program Faculty Member Selçuk Artut will be staying two-weeks in the United Kingdom for accomplishing several tasks. With the Ambiguous Standards Institute of which he is a member, he will carry the exhibition that they presented at the Chicago Art Institute this year to Loughborough, and then prepare various seminars and make presentations with the same team.

Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) will hold Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Awards Conference, which will be organized for the 12^th time this year to the memory of Dicle Koğacıoğlu, a sociologist, from 13.00 to 17.00 on Saturday, December 25.