2017 News
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Kadri Vural on High Performance Infrared Detector ArraysThe infrared (IR) wavebands of ~ 1-14 µm are of interest for various government, military, industrial, and commercial applications such as thermal imaging cameras. The key component of a thermal imaging system is the IR detector. full story |
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Dr. Aysegül Gündüz Receives Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant ProfessorsDr. Gunduz received 2017 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, presented by University of Florida’s Provost’s Office. The awards program recognizes research accomplishments by junior faculty members full story |
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Young Scientist of the Month: Çağlar Girit1) Would you please tell us about yourself and your journey that led you to become a scholar? When I was a boy my father would take me to his lab in the physics department at Princeton University.In the hangar-like building that housed his experiment to detect neutrinos, he would fill his dilution refrigerator with liquid helium. full story |
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SCIENCE CARTOON - May 2017In every issue of The Bridge, we now include science cartoons. In this issue, we have a page from Engineering History: History of Science full story |
2017 International R&D Summit and Fair AnnouncementInternational R&D Summit and Fair will be held between May 3 and 5, 2017 at Hotel Pullman Congress and Convention Center in Istanbul Turkey. The goal of the summit and fair is to establish scientific and trade collaborations between instutitions, and individuals, to expand national and international awareness for services and activities focused on the developmental goals of the Turkey, as government, universities and private sector. full story |
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Daron Acemoglu wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge AwardMIT economist Daron Acemoglu has won this year’s BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Economics, Finance, and Management, full story |
Four Turkish American Scientists are inducted to the National Academy of EngineeringTASSA is proud to announce that four Turkish American Scientists are inducted to the National Academy of Engineering. full story |
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Science Cartoons February 2017In every issue of The Bridge, we now include science cartoons. In this issue, we have a page from Engineering History: Discovery of Fire. full story |
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Young Scientist of the Month: Emre Ozkumur1) Would you please tell us about yourself and your journey that led you to become a scholar. I have always had interest on how new technology is used, or often created, to solve existing problems. Growing up, reading a book was a rather boring activity whereas opening up the broken walkman was a lot of fun. full story |
Funding Opportunities February 2017European Research Council Consolidator Grant (EUROPE) | Eligibility: researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD full story |
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TASSA Reaches out to Duygu AtmisA story in Hurriyet on December 30, 2016 touched the hearts of many. A devoted teacher Duygu Atmis commutes to her job, a container elementary school, on a mule every day during Winter months. Cars cannot go up the hill because of snow so the villagers assigned her a mule to help her with the commute! full story |
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Tayfun Sonmez on “Matching Markets, Market Design and Kidney Exchange”In traditional economic practice, it is usually the price of a product that determines who gets what. Sometimes, though, buying and selling via the best “price” does not work well. For instance, there would be a great deal of resistance within a community if full story |