2016 News

Two Turkish-American Scientists are the recipients of the Presidential Early-Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

It is our pleasure to inform you that two Turkish-American Scientists are the recipients of the Presidential Early-Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering.   full story

TASSA Participates at the Euraxess Joint Mentoring Initiative Meeting

On 5-6 December 2016 TASSA participated in the 2nd Annual Meeting of the European Scientific Diasporas in North America.   full story

TASSA Reorganizes Its Executive Committee

TASSA Executive Committee, which is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of TASSA has been reorganized. Per TASSA Bylaws.   full story

Aydogan Özcan Receives the Inaugural Rahmi Koc Science Award

Aydogan Ozcan, a member of the TASSA Board of Director, Receives the inaugural Rahmi Koc Science Award.   full story

MSCA - ITN Partner Search

We are in search for a partner to submit to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Proposal. Since the current partners are all academic, we are looking for partners from the industry.   full story

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) Call for Proposals

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) provide grants for all stages of research careers - doctoral candidates or highly experienced researchers - and encourage transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.   full story

Bulent Basol on Photovoltaic Solar Energy

Photovoltaics (PV) is the direct conversion of solar energy to electricity employing PV modules. Work on solar cells, which are the building blocks of PV modules, started in 1880’s and yielded practical devices in early 1950’s.   full story

Feryal Ozel receives Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Feryal Ozel receives Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Feryal Ӧzel is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy at The University of Arizona.   full story

Sena Eken Schieber Economics Award

The Sena Eken Schieber Economics Award grants scholarships to women from Turkey, who are admitted to graduate programs for a Masters or PhD degree in Economics at an accredited school in the United States.   full story

Young Scientist of the Month: Serdar Abaci

1) Would you please tell us about yourself and your journey that led you to become a scholar. In Turkey I attended a vocational high school, majoring in computer hardware. At the time the graduates of vocational high schools were allowed to attend only Schools of Education afterwards.   full story

Young Scientist of the Month: Onur Mudanyali

1) Would you please tell us about yourself and your journey that led to become a scholar? When I was around 4, my dad started to teach me simple math and physics basics as if we were playing games.   full story

Canan Dagdeviren Wins 2 Prestigous Awards

Canan Dagdeviren wins the The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists in the Translational Medicine Category and the 2016 Fatos Buyukkusoglu Strong Women Award   full story