News 2005

TASSA Launches a New Initiative: The Visiting Scholars Program

We invite our members and Turkish Universities/Institutions to join TASSA’s efforts to build this cross Atlantic bridge as a step towards longer term scientific collaborations.   full story

TASSA is happy to announce....

National Academy of Sciences elected Prof. Aziz Sancar from the University of North Carolina as a member and Prof. Mehmet zdogan from the University of Istanbul as a foreign associate to the Academy.   full story

Prof. Yildiz Bayazitoglu earns high honor from ASME

Prof. Yildiz Bayazitoglu from Rice University' has been awarded the 2004 Heat Transfer Memorial Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).   full story

MIT's Acemoglu Wins a Top Medal in Economics

Prof. Acemoglu is the recipient of the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark medal, given every two years to the nation's best economist under the age of 40.   full story

TAMA and TASSA held their first joint conference in New York

On March 12th, the Turkish American Medical Association (TAMA) and TASSA held their first joint conference in New York City.   full story

TASSA participated in TADAM's meeting in Chicago

TASSA participated in TADAM’s meeting on March 26 2005 and supported their request of making the equivalency of US trained and US board-certified Turkish medical doctors more objective and easy.   full story

A Spectacular Showcase of Turkish American Scientists and Scholars

Opening remarks by the Conference Chair Dr. Murat Tarimcilar, Ambassador Dr. Faruk Logoglu and Dr. Kenan Sahin, President of TIAX LLC, expressed their strong support for the establishment of TASSA.   full story

TASSA Annual Conference in Washington, DC

Annual Conference of the Turkish-American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA), to be held at the George Washington University on FEBRUARY 19-20, 2005 in Washington, DC. Program attached.   full story