Winners of the METU Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation 2021 Awards have been announced.

Murat Germen, member of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), has become the winner of an international photography award with his photography series titled “Reuse of Abandoned Industrial Architectural Heritage”.

The winners of “Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Awards” organized for the 12^th time this year by Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) in the memory of Dicle Koğacıoğlu, an academic and activist who passed away in 2009, were announced at an online conference on December 25. Articles by Dilan Alataş, Şehide Zehra Keleş Yüksel and Gözde Cöbek won the award.

An article about Li-ion batteries written by Alp Yürüm and Begüm Yarar Kaplan, researchers at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM), and Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, part-time researcher at SUNUM, member and vice-dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, and Vahid Charkhesht, doctoral student at Sabancı University, was featured on the cover of ACS Applied Energy Materials Journal in December 2021.

Being one of the main items on the world’s and Turkey’s agenda, and having great importance for energy dynamics and climate, electric vehicles were discussed at the conference and the panel entitled ‘Electric Vehicles Outlook - Global & Turkey’ organized in Istanbul by Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC).

Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) is home to manufacturing of borophene, which is a substance made from boron. Manufactured by only a few countries in the world, borophene can now be manufactured at SUNUM.

“Urban Mobility in Smart Cities” workshop was held on December 20 in partnership with Sabancı University, Farplas/Farklabs and PWC Turkey on Farklabs’ Maslak campus.

The results of the “Entrepreneurial and Innovative University Index - 2021”, prepared under the leadership of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), have been announced by Mustafa Varank, the Minister of Industry and Technology. With a total score of 75.72, Sabancı University has been ranked as the most entrepreneurial and innovative foundation university.

Sabri Sayarı, emeritus faculty member of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), has been elected as the President of the Turkish Political Science Association. Berk Esen, member of FASS, also sits on the newly established board of the association chaired by Sabri Sayarı.

An article entitled “Insider Giving” by Süreyya Burcu Avcı, part-time faculty member at Sabancı Business School, has been published in the Duke Law Journal of the Duke School of Law in the US.