The "Gürsel Sönmez Awards" established in 2006 in memory of the late Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences member and valued scientist Gürsel Sönmez will be given for the 10th time this year.  

A remembrance event will be held for Gürsel Sönmez on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 1.40 pm in FENS G032, followed by the announcement of this year's Award winners and poster presentations. All members of the Sabancı University community are invited.

Students who will take the ELAE on June 9th, 2016:

1. Students who have studied in the School of Languages during 2015-16 academic year and who have submitted on an online survey which was sent to them by mail.  (A petition is not required.) 
2. Inactive students who still hold exam rights & who have given in a petition to take the ELAE on June 9 th, 2016
3. Grad students

Location and Times:

The students certifying that they have passed one of the national and/or  international foreign language examinations at a level determined by the university are entitled to begin undergraduate programs.

The following international exams and minimum scores will exempt students from the SU Foundation Development Year. 

Siemens Art Prize “Borders Orbits 18” competition has concluded. The Prize was given to Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design, Masters students Didem Erbaş and Eren Sulamacı with their work "Tortu".

The Purple Certificate Program supported by the Sabancı Foundation in association with Sabancı University and the Ministry of Education held children's games workshops in partnership with the Bilgi University Children's Studies Unit during the Children's Biennial in Istanbul.

SThe Gender Certificate Program initiated by the Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Forum and Istanbul Bilgi University Sociology and Teaching Studies Center (SEÇBİR) to improve gender equality in education concluded.

On May 23, 2016, Istanbul Policy Center (IPC), in cooperation with American University and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), organized a one-day event in Istanbul entitled “Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Preventing Conflict and Sustaining Peace.”

Milan-based publisher Skira printed a comprehensive monograph of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Murat Germen. Established in 1928, Skira is one of the most prestigious artistic publishers in the world, and their monograph on Murat Germen explores the boundaries of the artist's experimental and documentary work that culminates in different imageries in photographic narrative. Murat Germen’s book is the first comprehensive monograph on a Turkish artist published by Skira.

2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate Professor Aziz Sancar gave a lecture titled "The mechanistic fundamentals of DNA repair" at Sabancı University on Thursday, May 26, 2016. Professor Sancar told Sabancı University students about his 35-year work on how cells repair damaged DNAs and preserve genetic information that won him the 2015 Nobel Prize.