The Sakıp Sabancı Mardin City Museum, renovated into a museum and art gallery by the Sabancı Foundation to honor the late Sakıp Sabancı's will, hosts an exihibition by contemporary photography artist and Sabancı University Arts and Social Sciences faculty member Murat Germen titled “The Various Aspects of Photography – Murat Germen: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective”.

Academic Orientation Program for the new academic year has been organized for two days on September 6-7, 2018 to welcome new faculty members. 

Open science and open innovation were the focal points of the Open Science Summit of Turkey organized by Sabancı University, TÜBİTAK, Izmir Institute of Technology, Hacettepe University and Anadolu University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS).

Times Higher Education (THE) revealed the Eurasian University Rankings. The inaugural rankings listed Sabancı University in 6th position. 22 Turkish universities were included in the ran

The Webometrics list of the best nanotechology-nanoscience experts of the world included Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences members Yuda Yürüm and Yusuf Menceloğlu.

The Sabancı University Program for Undergraduate Research (PURE) 2017-2018 Academic Year Summer Semester concluded with the PURE Fair on August 10, 2018.

Sabancı University President Zehra Sayers received the 2017 Rammal Medal at a ceremony in France.

The Rammal Medal recognizes a scientist, group of scientist or an institution for outstanding contributions to science in the Mediterranean region, and its 2017 recipient Professor Zehra Sayers, President of Sabancı University, was also the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of SESAME between 2002 and 2018. 

A research team led by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member İsmet İnönü Kaya developed a graphene-based screen prototype as part of the "ELMAS Project".  Their work to develop a Graphene-Based OLED Screen produced the highest pixel resolution in any graphene-based screen so far.

Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Electronic Engineering 2009 graduate Rabia Tuğçe Yazıcıgil developed a novel type of transmitter at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she continues her studies. Device uses ultrafast “frequency hopping” and data encryption to protect signals from being intercepted and jammed. This new technology protects wireless data from hackers. 

Sabancı University, named Turkey's most entrepreneurial and innovative, becomes the official implementer of the TÜBİTAK 1512 BİGG Program Phase 1 Activities with the "BiGGInner" project.