Sabancı University School of Management’s MBA Program will take part in the online MBA Fair held annually by The Economist.

The Economist Which MBA? will be held on February 5, 6 and 8, 2014.  MBA candidates can access the fair after filling out a very short form, and can visit the virtual booths where the most prestigious schools of the world introduce their MBA programs.  The fair is expected to attract more than 4000 MBA candidates from 145 countries.  Sabancı University MBA Programs Administrative Associate Burcu Albayrak, Professional Programs Director Yusuf Soner, former MBA Academic Director Can Akkan and Executive MBA Administrative Associate İpek İzet will participate in live sessions and provide information about programs.

Among the participants of the fair, 32% are from North America, 27% from Asia, 22% from Europe, 8% from Middle East/Africa, 6% from South and Central America, and 3% from South Pacific.

Live sessions (Turkish time)
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 14:00- 17:00 / 19:30 - 22:30
Thursday, February 6, 2014 17:00 - 20:00
Saturday, February 8, 2014 17:00 - 20:00

Please click below to visit the Sabancı University  School of Management MBA Program booth: http://mbaevent.whichmba.com/

The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium – (IWGSC), whose only Turkish implementer is a Sabancı University team led by Biological Sciences and Bioengineering professor Hikmet Budak, is to receive €1 million from Bayer CropScience for physical map completion.

The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) announced today that it will receive approximately €1 million (EUR) over the next six months from Bayer CropScience (BCS) to support physical mapping of several wheat chromosomes. The goal of BCS’s contribution is to accelerate the consortium’s wheat genome sequencing effort for drought- and disease-resistant wheat genes.

The only Turkish partner of this immense project is a project team of 7, led by Sabancı University Biological Sciences and Bioengineering professor Hikmet Budak. 

In the Turkish leg of the project, Sabancı University scientists supported by TÜBİTAK and the European Union will seek to complete the physical mapping of one other chromosome in addition to 1AL and 5D chromosomes.  These chromosomes carry the genes that control drought resistance, quality and disease resistance traits in wheat.  As a result, the efforts have direct implications on increased wheat profitability and food safety in Turkey, where wheat remains a staple in the diet.  The Sabancı University project team will make the actual/physical locations of the genes in the mapped chromosomes and their related genes and markers available to researchers in Turkish public and private research institutions first.

Other participating countries of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium include UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Norway, Estonia, Russia, India, China, Japan, Australia, Israel and the United States.

About the Wheat Genome Sequencing Project:

DNA sequencing of the wheat genome will be a critical tool in observing and determining the functions of wheat genes, and will help to develop new genotypes that are highly efficient.

The funding for the project is expected to create resources for the development of new and more sustainable wheat genotypes that are resistant to draught and disease, and to accelerate plant breeder and farmer production programs globally.

About the Sabancı University project team:

Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences’ Biological Sciences and Bioengineering program professor Hikmet Budak and his team have been working on the project since 2005, supported by TÜBİTAK and the EU 7th Framework Program. 

Professor Hikmet Budak has a doctorate in genetics and improvement from Lincoln University in Nebraska, with a minor in statistics.  After completing his degree, he was appointed as plant genetics coordinator in the same university.  Budak returned to Turkey in 2004 to join the faculty of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at Sabancı University.  His awards include a Turkish Academy of Sciences award and the Worldcomp06 achievement award in 2006.  Recently, an article authored by Budak in his area of research was published in the globally acclaimed scientific journal Nature.

About the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGCS):

The IWGSC, with more than 1,000 members in 57 countries, is an international, collaborative consortium, established in 2005 by a group of wheat growers, plant scientists, and public and private breeders. The vision of the IWGSC is a publicly available, high quality genome sequence of bread wheat that will enable breeders to develop improved varieties and lay a foundation for basic research in wheat, cereals, and plants.

Please click for the IWGCS press release

Our Alumnus Ergi Şener (BSEL’05 & MSEECS-LFI’07) won the “MasterCard Europe President’s Award for Innovation” with his “TV Commerce” Project.

The Project provides an easy shopping experience for users by online stores.

Ergi Şener is working at “MasterCard-Turkey” as a “Business Development Manager”. He is responsible for the business development strategies and management of innovation in 10 countries included Turkey.

The “Life Lab” exhibition, curated by our graduate Elif Gül Tirben (VAVCD, 2010) and including alumni artists Berke Soyuer (VAVCD, 2011) and Elif Süsler (VAVCD, 2009) opens at the Sanatorium Gallery on January 31st.

Venue: Sanatorium Gallery 

Address: Asmalı Mescit Cad.No 32A Tünel Beyoğlu 

www.sanatorium.com.tr 

Elif Süsler

Artists featured in the joint exhibition “Life Lab” to be held at the Sanatorium Gallery between January 31st and March 2nd are Cins, John Conway, Bora Başkan, Yunus Emre Erdoğan, Ece Gökalp, Sinem Mucur, Can Pekdemir, Berke Soyuer and Elif Süsler.  The curator of the exhibition is Elif Gül Tirben.

Berke Soyuer

The inspiration for the exhibition is French sociologist Bruno Latour’s study “Lab Life” conducted in a laboratory doing biological research on animals.  The study depicts the social aspect of the production of scientific knowledge, its openness to error, therefore criticism, and the communication issues between the “scientific clan” generating the knowledge and the people outside the clan.

Contrary to lab life, which defines scientific production and whose existence becomes manifest as a phenomenon that is separate from science or life as studied by science, the Life Lab exhibition is composed of a series of visual experimentations that deliberately disrupts (scientific) reality and the affinity with which we perceive our surroundings, with subjects ranging from anatomy to the footsteps on the Moon, quantum theory, and new life forms.  Being consistent with scientific fields, these experiments explore the amazing possibilities of life through visual representation, and suggest rethinking them as a whole, liberated from all categories and scientific processes.

Participating artists: 

Cins 

John Conway 

Bora Başkan 

Yunus Emre Erdoğan 

Ece Gökalp 

Sinem Mucur 

Can Pekdemir 

Berke Soyuer 

Elif Süsler

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 2004 graduate Emre Salman receives a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 2004 graduate Emre Salman receives a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

The award will provide approximately half a million dollars in funding over five years to Salman’s research on three-dimensional, energy-efficient integrated circuits.  Closely linked to the semiconductor industry, the research efforts are supported by the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.

Furthermore, Emre Salman's book "High Performance Integrated Circuit Design," printed in September 2012, is currently a textbook in several universities.  The 700-page book was published by McGraw-Hill.

About Emre Salman:

After graduating from Sabancı University, Salman completed his master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of Rochester.  During his studies, he worked as an R&D engineer in companies including Synopsys and Freescale Semiconductor.  Following a one-year postdoctoral research appointment, he became an assistant professor at SUNY Stony Brook University in 2010.  He has been the director of the "Nanoscale Circuits and Systems (NanoCAS)" research laboratory at Stony Brook since 2011.

The first exhibition of the year at Sabancı University Kasa Galeri is by SU graduate Aslı Narin.  Narin’s first personal exhibition, titled “Spin” will be available between January 24th and February 22nd.

It's not easy to stand in my spot

I seem to sense the call of other spots

Yet could my standing-in-a-spot be called just that

When that spot I stand in will not stand still

Özdemir Asaf, Electronic 

Aslı Narin’s first solo exhibition Spin is about the artist, having set out on the road with no purpose of destination, searching for what is constant in nature and within herself. At points where she pauses along her path, Narin captures distinct moments as photographs and videos. In these monochromatic, almost abstract images, the essence of matter momentarily appears to become visible; nature and the body reveal their secrets. The movement of the path, of light and of water remind the viewer of the impossibility of remaining in a single spot, and the inevitability of returning to a point of origin.

Özdemir Asaf’s poem titled Electronic is the most important source of inspiration in Narin’s research process. As a science, electronics is based on the principle of the movement of electrons (free electrons dragged towards a magnetic field form an electrical current). In this sense, the dynamic structure of the atomic universe implied by the title of the poem enables us to view the desperate search of the self from a physical and universal perspective. Why do we seek stability, while the world we inhabit, and in fact, the universe itself, revolves and flows? What happens when that state of equilibrium is disturbed? Balance lost, disrupted, drifting towards uncharted territory, where do the oscillations of the self take us? It is perhaps these lines from T.S Eliot's Four Quartets that best shed light on these questions posed by this exhibition: “We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” 

The sound production of the video installation titled “Tours” in the exhibition was carried out by Emre Malikler. Elif Gül Tirben is the guest curator at Kasa Gallery for Aslı Narin's first solo exhibition Spin. 

Guest Curator: Elif Gül Tirben

Exhibition Dates: January 24 – February 22, 2014

Address: Kasa Galeri Bankalar Cad. No: 2, Karaköy, Istanbul.

Visiting Hours: 10:00 – 17:00 (closed Sundays)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Aslı Narin was born in 1985, and she graduated from the Department of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design at Sabancı University. She completed her master’s degree in the same field at Goldsmiths College, University of London. For the last two years she has been teaching at the Department of Graphic Design of the Faculty of Art and Design at Kadir Has University. Narin continues to work on her PhD at the Proficiency in Art Program of Yıldız Technical University. 

Follow Kasa Gallery on the web:

http://kasagaleri.sabanciuniv.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kasa-Galeri/77695156678
http://www.twitter.com/kasagaleri

The following programs leading to  MA and PhD degrees are accepting early applications for  2014-2015 academic year Fall semester. Contact names for each program have been provided for academic inquiries only. For administrative or procedure related questions, please contact Student Resources Office.

Economics (MA/PhD) econ.sabanciuniv.edu/ 

Contact: Mehmet Barlo, (216) 483 92 84, barlo@sabanciuniv.edu

History (MA/PhD) hist.sabanciuniv.edu/

Contact: Hülya Canbakal, (216) 483 92 40, hcanbakal@sabanciuniv.edu

Turkish Studies (MA) ts.sabanciuniv.edu/

Contact: Halil Berktay, (216) 483 92 37, hberktay@sabanciuniv.edu

Applicants must have completed their previous degree programs by September 1, 2014, at latest.

Admission Requirements

Admission Requirements for Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Financial Support

A limited number of scholarships based on academic achievement are available in the form of partial or full tuition waivers and/or stipends.

Click for SU Graduate Scholarships.

Click for Graduate Funding, Other Opportunities and Awards

Please note that those candidates who fail to submit a sufficient English proficiency exam score and thus attend the course of English Language Preparation will receive no scholarship until they successfully complete the course.

Deadline

January 31st, 2014 is the deadline for the early applications. For History, all applicants take a written exam, afterwards eligible candidates are invited for an interview via e-mail. For other programs, after an initial screening, eligible candidates are invited for an interview via e-mail.

Please note that applications from abroad will not be required to take the written exam; they will be interviewed via phone or net meeting (Skype, etc.) if they’re found eligible after the initial screening.

The Graduate Admissions Calendar

 Economics (MA/PhD)

 Interview** : To Be Announced

 History (MA/PhD)

 Written Exam* : 17 February 2014
 Interview** : 21 February 2013

 Turkish Studies (MA)

 Interview** : To Be Announced

*All candidates are required to attend the admission exam / interview at the given date.

Applicants for more than one program must get in touch with the contact names of those programs and petition to take the entrance exams in a different time period to avoid possible time conflicts. 

 **Eligible candidates are going to be invited via e-mail for the interview.

Applications:

Online applications are accepted via admission.sabanciuniv.edu/ . Application documents (official exam results, transcript, etc..) should be uploaded on the online system and application packages be submitted either in person or post by mail to the address below. Please note that print-out of the completed application form should also be added to the application package. The packages sent via mail must arrive at the department by the application deadline. Applications sent via e-mail are not accepted.

Warning! All the application documents become property of Sabancı University. It is suggested to keep the original reports of TOEFL, GRE and ALES scores, and apply with the copies of those test scores. But please note that the originals must be produced at the time of registration to Sabancı University.

Student Resources Office
Sabancı University, Orhanlı
34956, Tuzla/ İstanbul-Turkey
www.sabanciuniv.edu
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9093
Facsimile: +90 (216) 483 90 73
E-mail: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu

Likeminds – German-Turkish Junior Expert Initiative, launched by Robert Bosch Stiftung, European Academy of Berlin (EAB) and Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University (IPC), 2014 program application process has started.

The program aims to strengthen ties between young German and Turkish top performers, and also to intensify the practical and topic-oriented exchange of ideas, experience, and understanding. In addition, it aims to contribute towards creating a professional and personal network, bringing together young experts, the deciders of the future.

In practical terms, the program is designed to address German and Turkish future experts, ‘high fliers’, young or junior experts, opinion formers, and disseminators from all sectors of society. Participants will enter into current social and political debates and confront cutting-edge issues. “likeminds” consists of three components: a preparatory workshop, held simultaneously in Istanbul and Berlin, followed by two tours d’horizon in both countries. At the workshop, participants choose different aspects of the focus topic of the year to be elaborated on during the program year. At the tours d’horizon, they have the opportunity to discuss their chosen issues with German and Turkish leading experts from politics, economy, academia, and media.

The program is seeking 10 junior experts from Germany and Turkey in the fields of politics, economy, academia, media and the arts with professional achievement and organisational responsibility.

Applicants from Turkey should contact with Gülnur Kocapınar from gulnurkocapinar@sabanciuniv.edu at Sabancı University-Istanbul Policy Center and German applicants should contact with Ute Böhr from ub@eab-berlin.eu at European Berlin Academy.

Application Form

Your application and all required documents should be received until February 9, 2014.

January 2013 ELAE Results

22^nd ELAE result code explanations are as follows:

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have received the required grade or above in the January 22nd ELAE and who have gained the right to start their faculty studies as Spring (irregular) Freshman in the 2013-2014 Spring Semester.

EL: (Exempt from the ELAE): indicates students who are exempt from the January 22^nd ELAE. These students have already gained the right to start their faculty courses in the 2013-2014 Spring Semester.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have not been able to obtain the required grade in the ELAE.*

NA (Non-attendance): indicates students who did not attend the exam and is equivalent to a “UL” grade*.

Grade bands are as below:

Postgraduate candidates who have taken the January 22^nd ELAE will be informed of their results by their faculties.

A Placement Exam will be given to inactive students who want to continue at FDY on the 27th of January at 9 a.m. They should contact to SL Directorate on the 24th of January at 4 p.m. latest.

Please see the link for your ELAE results.

We wish you success in your studies,

The School of Languages Directorate

Sabancı University International Relations Office held 3rd Public Speaking competition  among high schools in Pakistan

Sabancı University International Relations Office held 3rd Public Speaking Competition among the students of the leading high schools in Pakistan. The theme of the contest was “Turkey's International Role: Present & Future”. 

Elimination rounds were held between January 13 and 17 among the top students of the leading high schools in Pakistan, including the Lyceum School and Nixor College.  The final was held on January 18 at the Karachi Mövenpick Hotel.

Danish Ahmad, Sabancı University representative in Pakistan; Ebru Koç, Executive at International Relations Office and  Murat M. Onart, Consul-General of Turkey in Karachi spoke at the final event.  The winners of the contest and runners-up received their prizes from Consul-General Murat M. Onart.

The contest was held to promote Sabancı University at the leading high schools in Pakistan.  Out of the 16 students who were successful in the elimination rounds to represent their schools, the top 3 students were rewarded with a trip to Turkey in February.  These students will stay at the Sabancı University campus in February.  The 16 finalists were also given a Sabancı University gift pack and certificates.

Sabancı University students from Pakistan and their parents were among the audience.  Also speaking at the event were Sabancı University student Sheheryar Ahmad, who shared the experiences at Sabancı University. The event concluded with a dinner.