The Sabancı University Technology-Based Startup Acceleration Center SUCOOL and Turkey's first technology-based commercialization and seed fund company Inovent held an event at Karaköy Minerva Palas on Saturday, November 19 to present startups supported by Sabancı University to potential investors.

The NANOGRAFEN venture, founded by Material Science and Engineering 2007 Master's and 2011 PhD Graduate and SUNUM Researcher Dr. Burcu Saner Okan and Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Dean Professor Yusuf Menceloğlu in partnership with Inovent A.Ş. for the production of high-quality, affordable and high-quantity graphene, won two awards.

Our students, alumni, employees and friends of SU took part in the 38thIstanbul Marathon on Sunday, November 13 for the benefit of the Sabancı University Scholarship Fund.

Thanks to their supporting families and friends, they have generated enough fund for the monthly stipend of 2 of our successful students who are in financial need.

The worldwide "Art Conservation Project" implemented by Bank of America Merrill Lynch extends to the conservation of six paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum Collection.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences member İsmail Çakmak received The World Academy for Sciences  2016 Prize in Agricultural Sciences for his successful multinational projects in 12 countries and outstanding contribution to scientific literature in his field. 

İsmail Çakmak was nominated for the 2016 Prize in Agricultural Sciences by the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

Interview: Şule Yalçın / Alumni Relations and Career Development Manager

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Mechatronic Engineering undergraduate (2004), master's (2006) and PhD (2012) graduate Emrah Deniz Kunt spoke about his venture Indoora, which provides high-precision location technologies and services indoors, where GPS technology does not work.

Would you like to tell us more about your startup Indoora?

November 10th Ataturk Remembrance Day will be held on Thursday at Performing Arts Center.

November 10th Ataturk Remembrance Day Program:

8:45 Commencement

8:45-9.05 Slide Show

9.05 Moment of Silence & National Anthem

9:10  Remembrance Speech by Prof. Dr. Ersin Kalaycıoğlu: ''Republic and Science: Transition from Dynasty to Popular Rule''

Due to the ceremony, there will be no class between 08:40 and 10:30.

The second Hexagon Studio Executive Development Program held by Sabancı University Executive Development Unit EDU in association with Hexagon Studio concluded with a certificate ceremony held on Monday, October 24, 2016 at the Sabancı University campus in Tuzla.

Attending the ceremony were Hexagon Studio General Manager Tolga Doğancıoğlu and a number of executives.

2015/16 Mercator-IPC Fellow Defne Kadıoğlu Polat's report titled" "There is nothing quite like Tophane" A Case Study of Gentrification in Istanbul" was published.