The seventh annual Best Paper Competition, organized by the Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces (EFSUN) at Sabancı University, was held online on August 19, 2025, with a strong participation from young scientists at national and international levels, and was moderated by Prof. Dr. Emre Erdem.

Ece Salihoğlu is one of our graduates who has forged her own path with the skills and perspective she acquired during her education. We share an interview with our graduate, which includes her career journey, success story, and her feelings about our university.

Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF), with Akbank as its founding sponsor, is launching three certificate programs this fall semester.

Frankfurt (Oder). IHP – Leibniz Institute for High-Performance Microelectronics and Sabancı University in Istanbul are continuing to expand the scope of the Joint Laboratory, which has been the foundation of their successful academic and research collaboration since 2007. In April 2024, the laboratory's focus on microelectronic technologies was expanded to include the design and development of integrated high-frequency (RF and mm-wave IC) circuits. This will further support scientific excellence in areas such as high-frequency integrated circuits, radar sensors, micro- and nano-systems, and RF packaging.

The winners of the 2024 Award Program for High Schools participated in the Sabancı University Summer High School as part of their award. In the third term of the Summer High School, which took place in August 2025, students both took courses in various fields and had the opportunity to experience university life on campus for two weeks.

Associate Prof. M. Tahir Kılavuz, a new faculty member at Sabancı University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, has been awarded an ERC-Starting Grant of €1.5 million for his project DEMIG, from the European Research Council, one of Europe's most prestigious and competitive funding schemes in the European Union.

Assoc. Prof. Öznur Taştan, will serve as the national coordinator from Türkiye in the ACCELERATE (Functional precision medicine platform for the treatment of pancreatic cancer) project, supported under the European Union’s TRANSCAN-3 ERA-NET Cofund program.

Within the scope of the Industry-Focused Projects Program, Mustafa Batın Efe, a graduate of Sabancı University Computer Science and Engineering Program, who developed a Driver Monitoring System in collaboration with Vestel, talked about his experience.