Sabancı University Sailing Club (SU-SAIL) is hosting the E-Sailing European Cup, Europe’s first intercollegiate e-sailing championship, to revive the competitive spirit of sailors from universities during the pandemic and to bring university students together. 

Research has provided indications as to whether search engine results are biased. The study was carried out by using news search results of the Google and Bing search engines, and 57 controversial subjects were evaluated in terms of two types of bias, namely “perspective” and “ideology”. The article resulting from the research was published in Information Retrieval, one of the most prestigious journals in this field.

The 4^th Topics of Water Diving Conference, organized by Sabancı University Sub-qua Society, was held on March 12 – 13. The aim of the conference was to enable underwater enthusiasts to acquire different perspectives on the sea and underwater, and to benefit from the experience and know-how of expert speakers.

An international team including Ersin Göğüş, member of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, and Yuki Kaneko, member of Sabancı University Foundation Development Program, examined intensive X-ray bursts of the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 in the summer of 2020 via NASA’s Fermi/GBM and NICER space telescopes.

Barış Bilgit, a student of the Gender Studies PhD Program of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has won a Fulbright PhD dissertation research scholarship for the term for his dissertation theme. Barış Bilgit will be in the US next year to do research about his dissertation through this scholarship, which Fulbright has recently opened.

Nanografen, a spin-off company of which Burcu Saner Okan from Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Research and Application Center (SU IMC) is the founding partner, has become entitled to support by EUREKA for its joint project. 

Sabancı University and SUNUM are involved in 3 of the 4 SAYEM (Industrial Innovation Network Mechanism Program) projects to proceed to Phase-2. SAYEM is a program designed by TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB to design innovation networks in line with national high-tech targets through collaboration with the private, university and public sectors in order to develop products with higher value added.

‘The Report on Working Life and Domestic Violence During the Pandemic’, prepared within the framework of the ‘Business Against Domestic Violence (BADV) Project’ carried out by the Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT) and supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Sabancı Foundation in collaboration with TÜSİAD, indicates that domestic violence suffered by working women grew during the pandemic.

Sabancı University CIP organizes new projects for university staff virtually during the pandemic. 

Some examples of the online projects that the university staff members volunteered in are given below: 

Students who can take the ELAE  on 16-17^th June 2021: