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 President's Corner
Dear Friends of TASSA,
 Welcome to the inaugural issue of the TASSA newsletter,
The Bridge. We are very excited that once again TASSA is providing
this service to you. Our objective is to strengthen the
communication within the TASSA community. The Bridge will
inform you about TASSA Board and committee activities, news and job
opportunities from Turkey, and accomplishments of TASSA
members. We plan to publish The Bridge bimonthly. more...
Prof. Haluk
Unal
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News from the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry
and Technology
Science
Centers will be established in 81 cities in Turkey.
During the introductory meeting held in TUBİTAK,
Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Nihat Ergün stated:
''Science Centers will be available in all the metropolitan cities of
Turkey in two years and within 5 years, Science Centers will have
been established in every city in Turkey''
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News from TÜBİTAK 
High-Level
Prioritization Group Meeting of the ICT Sector
The
High-Level Prioritization Group Meeting of the Infor-mation and
Communication Technologies (ICT) sector was held on April 25 at the
Head- quarters Building of TUBITAK for identifying R&D
capabilities in ICT research and providing inputs to the
identification of sub- technology subjects in which project calls
will be opened by TUBITAK.
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REPORTS:
U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Task Force Report:
U.S.-Turkey Relations
On May 9,
2012 Council on Foreign Relations unveiled the report of a Task Force
on U.S.-Turkey Relations; A new partnership. The chairs of the task
force were Madeline K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley. The
roundtable discussion of the report was chaired by a familiar face,
David Ignatius of the Washington Post. The report acknowledges
Turkey as a rising regional and global power and calls on the U.S.
government to establish a new partnership with Turkey using new tools.
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Young Scientist
of the Month
A Conversation with
Melis Anahtar Ph.D.
"HIV is a devastating epidemic that now
disproportionately infects women. I am studying how the human immune
system responds to HIV infection in the female genital tract. I'm
pursing this in several ways, including using a novel microfluidic
device developed at MIT to comprehensively analyze the immune cells
in the female genital tract that eliminate the virus and
virally-infected cells, and studying how the bacteria that live in
the genital tract affect a person's susceptibility to acquiring HIV.
By understanding how HIV is acquired, we hope to develop better
treatments and vaccines to prevent its spread."
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News from
TASSA Members
Yavuz Oruc
is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering in University of Maryland, College Park, MD. He wrote a
historical novel in Turkish:
II. Peron: scrutinizes the role of women in the
society with the story of a girl who attends a boarding
school, Ismet Pasa Girl's Institute in Ankara in 1940. II.Peron
is an epic novel that is not on a linear time frame, of tragic
events, innocent love stories, betrayal, and shattered dreams.
Author's Website
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In This Issue
Quick Links
TASSA'12 Conference
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TASSA'12 Conference was a great success!
TASSA has completed
another chapter with remarkable success by its Annual Conference
at University of Maryland on March 3-4, 2012. More than 400
eminent scientists and scholars from both the United States and
Turkey attended the meeting in growing numbers and created once
again a spectacular showcase towards building a sustainable science
bridge between the two countries. We share our pride with you and
express our most sincere gratitude to all sponsors, speakers, and attendees. We also thank University of Maryland for their
gracious support and hospitality.
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TASSA Announces New Board of Directors
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.
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TÜBİTAK
workshop on recent developments in scientific research in Turkey
The
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
(TÜBİTAK) organized a series of workshops in Maryland, New
York, and Chicago on April 10, April 12, and April 14, respectively.
The goal of the workshops were to create awareness on recent
research developments, research funding, faculty positions and
sabbatical opportunities in Turkey. Participants met with eighteen
institutions from Turkey, who made presentations during the day-long
event.
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Presentations
given during the workshop are available on TÜBİTAK's Turkish Website
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TASSA met
with officials from the U.S. Department of State 
TASSA Board
Members met with officials from the U.S. Department of State on
April 9, 2012 to discuss the potential areas of cooperation in
science and technology between the U.S. and Turkey.
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TASSA Visited
Ambassador
H.E. Namık Tan
TASSA
President Prof. Dr. Haluk Ünal, Board Members Prof. Dr. Füsun
Özgüner and Prof. Dr Turgay Ertekin and Managing Director
Tuğba Güntay visited H.E.
Namık Tan, Ambassador of the Republic of
Turkey to the United States on April 9, 2012 at the Turkish Embassy
in Washington DC.
Mr. Tan said
that TASSA provides a dynamic platform for American, Turkish and
Turkish-American scientists and scholars to facilitate cultural
exchanges, enhance learning opportunities and contribute to the
global scientific achievements.
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TASSA-TÜBİTAK discussed a road map to make
Turkey more attractive for scientists
TASSA met
with the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
(TÜBİTAK) on April 9, 2012 at the Turkish Embassy in
Washington DC. The agenda of the meeting was the development of a
road map to make Turkey more attractive for Turkish scientists and
scholars living abroad.
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Summer/Winter
Physics School:
ITAP IARS 2012 Program
Institute
of Theoretical and Applied Physics (ITAP) in Marmaris, TURKEY is
organizing a summer and winter school. The school and the workshop
target senior and junior professional researchers, scientists,
engineers, clinicians, mathematicians, physicists, biologists as
well as students in these fields, and aim to inform them about the
recent advances in brain dynamics research.
All
International Advanced Research Schools in Physics (IARS)
activities are designed for international participation and
conducted in English. There
will be full support for local expenses of national participants
and may have partial support for the local expenses of
international participants. Local support includes
accommodation and meals. No travel support can be provided
(national & international).
The deadline for application is June 22, 2012.
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Please visit "Membership/
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Contact TASSA
Please submit news and announcements that you would like to be
included in the future issues of The Bridge by sending an
email to ed@tassausa.org
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The Bridge
Editorial Team:
Aylin Sagay Editor
Tugba Guntay Co-Editor
Hasan Ayaz Co-Editor
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