2018 News

Call for Nominations: TASSA 2018 Young Scholar Awards

You are invited to submit a nomination (including self-nominations) for these prestigious awards. The conference committee plans for at least 2 awards in each category (i.e., graduate student, postdoctoral scholar/researcher and junior faculty).   full story

New NSF center will help to improve health in underserved communities

TASSA Board member, Aydogan Ozcan is working on new technologies for helping people with low-income, who have diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSG), his team at UCLA is partnering with   full story

Canan Dagdeviren on Miniaturized Neural Drug delivery System (MiNDS)

It is now common knowledge that neurological disorders arise from the dysregulation of neural circuits, rather than from a single afflicted region of the brain.   full story

TASSA 2018: Call for abstracts

We kindly invite you to submit an abstract for the TASSA 2018 conference that will be held at the Boston University (June 2-3rd, 2018). The general theme of the upcoming TASSA 2018 conference will be "Disruptive Ideas and Technologies."   full story

The young scholar profile: Beste Mutlu

In every issue of The Bridge, we highlight a young scholar profile from our diaspora. These accomplished and early career individuals demonstrate the potential of next generation Turkish-American scientists and scholars.   full story

Turkish Economists' Work Is Recognized

Recently the Journal of Political Economy (JPE), probably the most prominent journal in economics, published a retrospective issue to celebrate its 125th anniversary:   full story

Bahri Karaçay ile Bilim Celebrated its 100th Episode

Top Turkish popular science podcast “Bahri Karaçay ile Bilim (Science with Bahri Karaçay) just celebrated its 100th episode. TASSA president Prof. Haluk Ünal was a special guest for the occasion.   full story

Bulent Basol on a new and powerful semiconductor metrology technology- ALPro

Semiconductor industry is the engine of economic, environmental and social development in the world. Many applications from machine learning to artificial intelligence and robotics all depend on the availability of faster running integrated circuits or chips, with higher computing power and data storage capability.   full story

2017 Young Scientists Awards by Bilim Kahramanlari Dernegi

We would like to announce you "2017 Young Scientists Awards" by Bilim Kahramanlari Dernegi.   full story

Minutes: Joint TASSA Board and Executive Committee Meeting

The nominating committee is charged collecting nominations for the Board of Directors elections for the seats of Bulent Basol, Ayse Imrohoroglu, Fusun Ozguner, Selim Unlu whose terms are ending by the upcoming election.   full story