•    ANOTHER STEP FOR SABANCI UNIVERSITY TO BECOME A WORLD-RENOWNED UNIVERSITY

•    SABANCI UNIVERSITY ISTANBUL POLICY CENTRE AND GERMANY’S MERCATOR STIFTUNG HAVE SIGNED A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP DECLARATION

•    CHAIRMAN OF SABANCI UNIVERSITY, GULER SABANCI WAS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT MERCATOR STIFTUNG’S ANNUAL CONFERENCE

•    GULER SABANCI: “FOLLOWING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH MIT, THIS NEW LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP WITH MERCATOR STIFTUNG WILL ELEVATE SABANCI UNIVERSITY TO THE GLOBAL ARENA”

735 graduate from Sabancı University
 
The commencement ceremony for the 12th undergraduate and 9th graduate classes of Sabancı University took place on Saturday, June 25th at the Sabancı University campus.  11 doctorate, 129 master’s and 595 bachelor’s students received their diplomas.  Among this year’s graduates were international students from 12 countries, namely the United States, Germany, Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Palestine, India, Iran, Egypt, Russia and Ukraine.

The commencement ceremony for the 12th undergraduate and 9th graduate classes of Sabancı University will take place on Saturday, June 25th, 2011 with the attendance of Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı and President A. Nihat Berker.

Graduates will receive their diplomas at the commencement ceremony to be held at the Tuzla campus.  Awards established in memory of the late Sabancı University faculty member Gürsel Sönmez, who passed away in 2006, will also be given at the ceremony.

Commencement ceremonies have been important events to build the institutional memory of the university since 2000, when the first students graduated.  The “Academic Year Closing Lecture” given to the commencement class one day before the ceremony has also become a tradition.

NanoTR - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference is the most comprehensive meeting organized annually in Turkey in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The 7th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference (NanoTR VII) will be held in Sabancı University on June 27 - July 1, 2011 in Istanbul.

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award Was Given to Professor Kemal Kirişci for His Article on a Multidimensional Look at Turkey’s Foreign Policy

Held in honor of the late Sakıp Sabancı, the Honorary Chairman of the Sabancı University Board of Trustees, the 6th Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards will be given at a ceremony hosted by the Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı and President A.

The exhibition, entitled “Across - The Cyclades and Western Anatolia During the 3rd Millennium BC” is composed of artifacts from various Turkish museums as well as the National Archaeological Museum and the N. P. Goulandris  Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens. It examines the relations between the Cyclades in the Aegean and the nearby Anatolia that gave rise to reciprocal influence, creating two cultures which are similar in many respects, nonetheless maintained distinctive regional characteristics.

Ayşe Parla receives the TUBA-GEBIP award 2011, given by the Turkish Academy of Sciences to Outstanding Young Scientists.

One of the young stellar researchers at FASS, Ayşe is a sociocultural anthropologist teaching mainly in our Cultural Studies programs.

The award will finance a research project on migration and citizenshipfor the next three years. Ayşe will receive the award in a ceremony on June 3, at the annual Academy Day in Istanbul.