Sabancı University Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı  

Placed At United Nations' Highest-Level Advisory Body

Güler Sabancı has been assigned to the United Nations' Global Compact Board by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

Sabancı University Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı   

has been assigned as the member of the Board at the United Nations The Global Compact. With more than 7.000 business participants and other stakeholders in over 130 countries, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative The Global Compact Board is chaired by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. With its representatives from the business world, civil society, labour and employees, the board functions as UN's highest level advisory body. As the board member, Güler Sabancı will participate in the initiatives to improve the partnership between the United Nations and the business world, to ensure that the specific compact principles are complied with, as well as providing strategical consultancy in alignment with The Global Compact principles.

Other members to stand alongside Güler Sabancı include Paul Polman the CEO of Unilever, Kurt Bock Chairman of the Board BASF SE, Charles O.Holliday the Bank of America Chairman, Jean-Guy Carrier Secretary- General of the International Chamber of Commerce, and Toshio Arima the Director and Executive Advisor to the Board of Fuji Xerox. Sabancı is the sole Turkish member of the board. The member candidates to be defined by the recommendations from the Nominations Committee as well as the local organizations, are assigned by Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations. Consisting of 31 members, the board stands for the regions all over the world as well as a wide range of industry sectors.

-Other Internatıonal Posıtıons Held By Güler Sabancı-

In addition to being a member of The Global Compact Management Board, Güler Sabancı is still the first and only woman member of European Round Table of Industrialists, the first Turkish member of International Business Council, which is the advisory council of World Economic Forum, and the only Turkish member of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Energy Initiative International Advisory Committee.

Having undersigned The Global Compact of the United Nations in 2007, Sabancı Holding has also hosted the Annual Local Network Forum in 2009, where a range of representatives meet from all over the world. Furthermore in 2011, Sabancı Holding has been the first Turkish company to undersign the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles, which was initiated by The Global Compact.

United Nations Global Compact Board

(As of 19 April 2012)

Chair

H.E. Mr. BAN Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations

Vice Chair

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (ex officio), Chairperson, Foundation for the Global Compact

Business

Mr. Toshio Arima, Director and Executive Advisor to the Board, Fuji Xerox, Japan

Mr. Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board, BASF SE, Germany

Ms. Marilyn Carlson-Nelson, Chairperson, Carlson, U.S.A.

Mr. Fernando Chico Pardo, President, ASUR, Mexico

Mr. Robert Collymore, Chief Executive Officer, Safaricom Limited, Kenya

Ms. Monica de Greiff, Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Energia de Bogota, Colombia

Mr. Samuel Di Piazza, Vice Chairman, Institutional Clients Group, Citi, U.S.A.

Mr. Chengyu Fu, Chairman, Sinopec, China

Mr. José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Petrobras, Brazil

Mr. Andrei Galaev, Chief Executive Officer, Sakhalin Energy, Russian Federation

Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys, India

Mr. Björn Hägglund, Member of the Board, Alfa Laval, Sweden

Mr. Charles O. Holliday, Chairman, Bank of America, U.S.A.

Mr. Decheng Li, Standing Vice President & Director General, China Enterprise Confederation, China

Mr. Elias Masilela, Chief Executive Officer, Public Investment Corporation, South Africa

Mr. Arif Masood Naqvi, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Abraaj Capital Holdings Limited, UAE

Ms. Guler Sabanci, Chairperson, Sabanci Holding, Turkey

Mr. Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, United Kingdom

Ms. Martha Tilaar, Founder and Chairperson, Martha Tilaar Group, Indonesia

Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd., India

Civil Society

Mr. Jose Abrahao, President, Ethos Institute,

Ms. Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International

Ms. Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director General, IUCN

Mr. Pierre Sane, President, Imagine Africa International

International Labour and Business Organizations

Mr. Jean-Guy Carrier, Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce

Mr. Philip Jennings, General Secretary, UNI Global Union

Mr. Brent Wilton, Acting Secretary-General, International Organisation of Employers

Mr. Manfred Warda, General Secretary, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions

Ex Officio

Mr. Wolfgang Engshuber, Chair, Principles for Responsible Investment

Mr. Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact

The review article titled as "Tumor suppressor genes and ROS: complex networks of interactions" by Vurusaner Beyza; Poli Giuseppe; Basaga Huveyda is published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2012 Jan 1;52(1):7-18.

In a little while, the article ranked 6th in the list of the most downloaded Free Radical Biology and Medicine articles from ScienceDirect.

Halil Şen, our PhD student in the Industrial Engineering Program, was awarded the third place with his paper "A Simple, Fast, and Effective Heuristic for the Single-Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Problem" in the student paper competition at the 13th International Conference on Project Managament and Scheduling (PMS 2012). The conference is one of the premier meetings with a long-standing tradition in his field and was held in Leuven, Belgium during April 1-4.

Jyrki Katainen will visit our campus
Jyrki Katainen, The Prime Minister of Finland, will visit our campus on April 19, 15.45-16.45, for a talk on "The Finnish View on European Economic Perspectives and EU-Turkey Relations" followed by a Q&A session.

Between 4 and 8 April, 2012, Sabanci University IEEE Student Branch has organized a technical trip to Munich, Germany as guests of the IEEE Student Branch of Technical University of Munich. 21 club members attended to the technical trip: Ahmet Alper Yalçın, Ahmet Hamdi Tokel, Alperen Mustafa Turgut, Aykut Kadayıfçı, Barış Çete, Batuhan Baykal, Can Gemicioğlu, Cansu Yıldırım, Çağla Koca, Ece Kocagil, Emre Uçar, Fırat Özdemir, Göksan Işıl, İrem Boybat, Kerim Kemal Kibaroğlu, Mehmet Armanç Özhan, Nazlı Kılıçaslan, Ogün Onur Kibar, Onur Zungur, Rıdvan Kahraman, Serhan Gül.

In the frame of the technical trip, members of the SU IEEE club have been able to obtain detailed knowledge on both industrial and academic world of Germany. At the first day of the trip, world-renowned BMW World, located near the Munich Olympic Park, was visited. BMW World consists of BMW plant and BMW museum. SU IEEE members realized a guided tour of the plant, in which more than 900 cars and up to 1,400 engines are built per day. In this plant visit, students gained an an exciting insight into all areas of automobile production. They observed and received information about almost all stages of the production including the Press Shop, Body Shop, Paint Shop, Engine Shop, the Production of Interior Equipment and Seats, as well as Assembly of the automobiles. Moreover, they had a unique experience in BMW museum, being able to delve into the history of the company and observing automobiles built at various stages of its history.

In the following days, SU IEEE members came together with the IEEE members of Technical University of Munich. Both groups, consisting mainly of electronics and mechatronics engineering students, exchanged information about their respective education systems, investigated the differences and similarities between engineering approaches of two systems. TU Munich students showed SU IEEE members their university, concentrating specifically on engineering departments. Students were able to observe the research environment in TU Munich by visiting the digital image/video analysis and power electronics laboratories at the university. They acquired important information about an international research facility and the German education system.

Lastly, SU IEEE members also visited the world’s largest museum of technology and science, the “Deutsches Museum”. With approximately 1.5 million visitors per year and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology, Deutsches Museum have been a unique experience for SU students. They were able to get information about many scientific breakthroughs from past to present and took a glimpse to the future of science and engineering. SU IEEE members focused especially on nanotechnology, microelectronics, optics and electrical machines sections of the museum and got involved to museum’s interactive experiments.

Overall, the technical trip has become both a great learning experience and enjoyable tour of German industry and academia, motivating SU IEEE members to further organize and attend to such trips.

Sabancı University Professional Master's Degree in Information Technology applications deadlines for Academic Year 2012-2013 Fall Term has been announced.

You had been on exchange or you still are and you gained an unforgettable experience socially, culturally and academically. Now it is time to share and inspire...

Former and current outgoing Exchange students from SU; we look forward to reading your exchange stories!

Requirements of the Competition

Publish your blog post which consist of 500 words minimum on IRO website, upload at least 3 photos to support your post and participate in the competition! Please also send your photos to suoutgoing@sabanciuniv.edu by e-mail.

Be a social media monster with your blog post, get the highest point in student survey and increase your chance of winning!

Please click here for further information.

Prizes:

1st Prize: IPAD 2

2nd Prize: WII Nintendo Set

3rd Prize: Adidas Gift Card for 150 TL

Deadline: 15th of June 2012

Rules of the Competition:

• The competition is open to former and current outgoing Exchange students from SU.
• The blog posts will be evaluated by the jury.
• Winners of the competition will be announced at the IRO website on July 2, 2012 .
• SU International Relations Office(IRO) has every right to use blog posts and photos submitted to the competition with your name for promotion.
• In case the number of applications to the contest is lower than 10, IRO can decide to postpone or cancel the competition.

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Professors from MIT are visiting Sabancı University this week.  Distinguished scholars from MIT gave lectures as part of their visit.

Professor Stuart Madnick, Baron of Langley, from the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Dean for Undergraduate Education  Professor Daniel Hastings gave lectures in the evening of Thursday, March 29th.

Professor Stuart Madnick of the MIT Sloan School of Management gave a speech titled "Web 3.0 is coming, will you be ready?” at the MBA ve EMBA alumni meeting held in the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum – the Seed.

Stuart Madnick discussed the long-term objectives and useful tools and technologies associated with web 3.0.  Madnick reflected on the transition from web 1.0 to web 2.0 and what these two versions of the web brought, and said that web 3.0 would not only support new applications, but create applications in its own right.  Also discussing past difficulties with computers, Madnick argued that the situation would change rapidly with the transition to “semantic web.”  Saying that the semantic web is a progression of the current system, Stuart Madnick added that the system would enable users and computers to work in better harmony.  Madnick said that the semantic web would make it easier for computers to process and comprehend data, giving them strong reasoning skills.

Prof. Stuart Madnick

Professor Daniel Hastings gave a lecture titled “MIT and Education” in the seminar held at the Minerva Palas in Karaköy.  Hastings explained the education system at MIT, and mentioned international cooperation initiatives of the university.  Hastings said, “MIT is a national US university with an international vision.”  Hastings discussed the values of MIT and said that reputation was of utmost importance, and that reputation was a prime concern in the international initiatives that they undertook.

Prof. Daniel Hastings

Every year, our highest-achieving students go on a visit to the MIT under the guidance of our President Nihat Berker to live a different culture and education experience.

This year, 8 successful MIT students will be our guests for the first time on a week-long discovery of Sabancı University.  MIT students will attend lectures in our school and experience life on campus and in Istanbul with our students and President Nihat Berker.