Implemented in Turkey by Sabancı University with the support of Akbank, the Carbon Disclosure Project’s 2010 results were announced.  Of the 11 companies disclosing carbon emissions, 5 are banks.

Sabancı University Civic Involvement Projects (CIP) and Citibank cooperated for the NGO Internship Program, implementing an initiative maintained by the Citi Foundation in the United States for 30 years for the third time in Turkey.

The closing ceremony for the third NGO Internship Program was held at the Karaköy Communication Center on Sunday, October 24th.  Certificates were handed out to participants.

The first prize in the awards given by the Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Forum in honor of the academic and activist Dicle Koğacıoğlu went to Özlem Ezer from the York University with her article “Freedom from the Hegemony of ‘The One’ and ‘The Language’: Plurality in Biographies.”

Held for the first time this year, the awards received applications of 28 graduate researchers from 16 universities in Turkey and abroad.

The Sabancı University Photography Club (SÜFOK) opens a porthole to the world of the dockyards with the “Dockyards” exhibition at Tomtom Fun Aid

Held by the Sabancı University Photography Club (SÜFOK) with the support of Tomtom Fun Aid, an urban transformation project, the “Dockyards” photography exhibition will be available for visiting from the 23rd of October to the 20th of November.

Kabir Tambar’s first-prize winning article at the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards 2009 was published in the Comparative Studies in Society and History.

A young researcher at the University of Vermont, Kabir Tambar had won the 2009 Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award with his article “The Aesthetics of Public Visibility: Alevi Semah and the Paradoxes of Pluralism in Turkey.”

Please click here to read the article.

An article by faculty member Ersin Göğüş concerning his work on neutron stars was published in Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications. 

A team led by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Mechatronic Engineering faculty member Kemalettin Erbatur developed Turkey’s first humanoid robot.

Named SURALP (acronym for Sabancı University Robot Research Laboratory Platform), Turkey’s first humanoid robot was presented to the public at the Sabancı University campus in Tuzla on Wednesday, October 13th.
Turkey’s First Bipedal Humaniod Robot: SURALP (Sabancı University Robot Research Laboratory Platform)

On th 6 October Sikorski presented six Poles with the prestigious Bene Merito medals for their services in the promotion of culture and strengthening of Poland 's position in the international arena.

Professor Mahir Şaul of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will be giving the first FASS History Seminar of the 2010-2011 academic year on Tuesday, 12th October. The talk has been scheduled for 15:40 in Room G049 in the Arts and Social Sciences building.