TASSA Announces New Board of Directors
Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA) is pleased to announce its newly elected board of directors. The new directors represent a wide range of expertise in various scientific fields and will bring valuable leadership to TASSA. The board members and their affiliations are as follows:
| Hüseyin Abut | Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering, SDSU and Adjunct Professor at Boğaziçi University |
| Turgay Ertekin | Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering and George E. Trimble Chair in Earth and Mineral Sciences, Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Pennsylvania State University |
| Murat Günel | Nixdorff-German Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurobiology and Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine |
| Orhan Gürbüz | Nuclear Engineering Consultant at Gurbuz Consulting and Director at Tobolski Watkins Engineering Inc. |
| Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan | Endowed Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Houston, Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University |
| Aydoğan Özcan | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA |
| Füsun Özgüner | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University |
| Mehmet Toner | Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Haluk Ünal | (Chairman of the Board and President), Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland |
About Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA)
TASSA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and non-political scientific and scholarly organization established in June 2004 in Washington, DC. TASSA aims to build a sustainable science bridge between the U.S. and Turkey. TASSA’s mission is to promote educational, scientific and technological cooperation between the USA and Turkey and to facilitate the advancement of science in Turkey and the USA through scientific exchange, educational programs and increased networking. More information about the new board is available at the TASSA Board of Directors page.
To learn more about TASSA, please visit www.tassausa.org or email ed@tassausa.org or call 1-855-827-7204.