Researchers in the Sabancı University Gözüaçık Lab discovered how and why a genetic and deadly disorder (Inclusion body myopathy with early-onset Paget disease and frontotemporal dementia, IBMPFD) occurs. The treatment recommended by the team is based on autophagy, which was the subject of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine. 

“Sustainability and Alternative Energy: Lowering Our Footprint on Our Planet”

02 November Wednesday at 12.40, FENS L062

Sabancı University invited parents to the sixth annual “Family and Education Day.”  Families learned more about a wide range of topics from science to entrepreneurship, energy, and politics.

Sabancı University “Family and Education Day” took place at the Sabancı University campus in Tuzla on Saturday, October 22, 2016. The traditional Family and Education Day event started at the Sabancı University Performing Arts Center with introductory remarks by Acting President Ayşe Kadıoğlu.

Hello Tomorrow and Sabancı Üniversitesi Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) will hold an event “The Future of Energy” on Monday, October 31^st 2016, at the Sabancı Center.

The high-level event will host leading innovators, science-entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors and industry experts.

“Gravitational Wave Detectors: The Ultimate Windows on the Universe"

Electronic Engineering 2009 graduate Rabia Tuğçe Yazıcıgil received a dissertation award from Columbia University for her dissertation “Compressive Sampling as an Enabling Solution for Energy-Efficient and Rapid Wideband RF Spectrum Sensing in Emerging Cognitive Radio Systems”.

Rabia Tuğçe Yazıcıgil was one of the 23 entrants to the 2015 MIT Rising Stars academic career workshop chosen to make a presentation on her dissertation among 60 woman scientists.

TİM and İnovent start a mentorship project for sustainable value

Sabancı University affiliate Inovent and the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM) kick off INOSUIT - Innovation-Focused Mentorship Project, to help companies create sustainable value and increase their exports. The academic directors of the project are Inovent Director Merih Pasin and Sabancı University FENS faculty member Umut Ekmekçi.

Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU starts trainings available to the general public in order to share the collective knowledge and experience with wider audiences and provide reliable support to professionals who believe in continuous development.

Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU started a new training program with its learning partner, Akçansa.

The launch meeting of the Akçansa Bosses Program took place on Wednesday, October 12, 2016. 16 Akçansa dealers will join the 4-month program. 

Industrial Engineering 4th year student Bengüsu Özcan's second book Antika Adam was published by Pena Yayınları on September 6, 2016!

Antika Adam [Ancient Man] is the story of Koray, who is cryogenically preserved into the future as a responsible young man, and his ordeals in the new world where he finds himself. It is a gripping story of time travel gone awry.