This year’s TEDxSabanciUniversity’s theme is “What is next?”:  In a supremely fast changing world where innovations chase one another, we do not live a day which fails to surprise us. As being part of this incredible speed, we are surprised, excited and inspired at every moment by the breakthroughs taking place in technology, art and science.  

Sabancı University received the “Most Entrepreneurial and Innovative University in Istanbul” award at the Regional Meeting for Public-University-Industry Cooperation held by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology.

The “Global Competitiveness of Turkey” report issued by Sabancı University - TÜSİAD Competition Forum and SEDEFED was presented to the public.  Speakers at the press event were Federation of Industry Associations (SEDEFED) Chairperson Sefa Targıt and TÜSİAD Chairperson Muharrem Yılmaz. 

Information on the “Global Competitiveness of Turkey” report was presented by School of Management Dean Füsun Ülengin. 

Master’s in International Relations aims to provide theoretical knowledge on the international relations discipline, and to equip students with skills relevant to the practical applications of the field.  Focused on methodologies, approaches and policy implementation in international relations, the program’s objective is to reconcile theory and practice.

Computer Science and Engineering 2013 graduate Serhat Can Leloğlu (BSCS'10 & MSCS'13) came third in the Hack-a-thon, held in California’s Silicon Valley by sponsors including Google, Oracle and BOX.  Can Leloğlu is currently a software engineer in FuzeBox, California.

Hack-a-thon is a 24- or 48-hour project competition and coding marathon on specific subjects and platforms.

Computer Science and Engineering 2007 graduate Sarp Centel (BSCS'07) was featured in the article “Mad Turks of Silicon Valley” in the Hürriyet daily.

The latest film of Beyza Boyacıoğlu, a 2009 graduate of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design who is currently a documentary director in America, was accepted to New York Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Documentary Fortnight festival.

3D revolution at Sabancı University

For the first time, macro-vascular tissue constructs were 3D printed by using self-supported live cells directly from medical images at the 3D Tissue and Organ Printing Lab.

Canan Dağdeviren (M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2009) is coming under limelight in the United States with her successful work.

Canan Dağdeviren is working on flexible and bendable electronic devices that can be implanted into the body or on the skin. Her work extends across physics, electronics, chemistry, materials, mechanics and medicine.