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ABOUT
Turkish
American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA) is an independent,
non-profit and non-political organization established in June 2004
in Washington, DC.
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TASSA
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INSTITUTIONAL
MEMBERS
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TASSA
2016 Conference will be held at the University of Chicago, April
2-3, 2016
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 We are very excited to share that our signature event,
the TASSA Conference, held every two years, will take place on
April 2-3, 2016 at the University of Chicago.
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Prof. Kelestemur
appointed as the first director of the newly established Turkish
Health Institutions (TUSEB)
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 Former president of Erciyes University, Kayseri,
and the TUBA council member Prof. Fahrettin Kelestimur was
appointed as the first director of the Turkish Health Institutions
(TUSEB) in June. As
The Bridge editorial team, we reached out to Prof. Kelestimur to
ask about TUSEB and his initial plans for TUSEB. We are publishing
his response in its entirety below. Full
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Canan
Dağdeviren (MIT 35 under 35) develops a device to facilitate
skin cancer diagnosis
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 2015
MIT Technology Review announced Canan Dağdelen, an exceptional
female Turkish scholar, as an "Innovator Under 35."
Since 1999, the MIT Technology Review has awarded numerous
innovators, ranging from Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder of Facebook, to
Helen Greiner, the cofounder of iRobot. Canan Dağdeviren
will be awarded at the annual EmTech MIT conference on September,
which will take place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge,
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Duygu
Karaman (MIT 35 under 35) develops an app for the visually impaired
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 Duygu Karaman (26), visually impaired herself,
developed the mobile application "My Dream Partner"
(Hayal Ortağım) for the blind, and was listed in "35
Innovators under 35" by the MIT Technology Review. Among the 700,000 visually impaired Turks,
150,000 of them use My Dream Partner. She developed the technology
with the other visually-impaired members of Young Guru Academy. The
application also won the "Best Mobile
Product-Application" award by the GSMA. Full
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Gözde
Durmus (MIT 35 under 35) develops a method to characterize cells
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 It takes seeing whether a patient heals or worsens, or the
time for a cell to grow, to understand if cells are dying, or
basically cancerous.
Gözde Durmus (30), Turkish female scientist in Stanford, invented a
simple method for this assessment, leading to her acknowledgement
as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. Full
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Turkish-American
scientist Zakir Durumeric (MIT 25 under 35) invents a way to
improve online security
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 Zakir Durumeric, the son of a Turkish
mathematician, Oguz Durumeric, is amazed to discover that
people place pretty much everything online, from ATM
machines, bank safes, all the way to even control systems of
nuclear plants.
Durumeric finds it hard to believe how common these unsafe online
practices are, particularly considering the recent on-line hacking
incidents affected some big corporations such as Sony and Target. Full
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Another
success story from a female Turkish scientist from the University
of Oxford
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 Dr. Nihan Akyelken from the University of Oxford
won the "Young Researcher of the Year" award by the International
Transport Forum.
Ms. Akyelken won a prize of EUR 5,000 with her
studies about the governance of sustainable transport.
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What
the research on Whistled Turkish says about the neural structure
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 Every language has its own peculiarities, and
according to a recent research, the Turkish language is unique in
the way brain is used during Turkish whistling. For those who are not familiar with this method
of communication: Whistled Turkish is literary Turkish language,
adapted into whistles. Mainly practiced in the villages of Black
Sea coast of Turkey, the language allows communication in distances
of 50 to 90 meters. Full
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ERC Grants a Tool for Creating Soft-Landing
Bases in Turkey
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By Nilay Papila
European Research Council (ERC) funds can be defined as
the most distinguished way of soft landing, which provide funding
for top researchers and innovators who would like to conduct their
researches at two different countries, namely Turkey and the US
simultaneously.
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Introduction
of the Board Members: Mehmet Toner
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On behalf of the editorial team of TASSA we are pleased to
introduce the members of our Board of Directors, who have agreed to
graciously share their thoughts on TASSA and its activities, as
well as information about themselves with our readership. In
this issue we feature Mehmet Toner, Helen Andrus Benedict
Professor of Surgery (Biomedical Engineering), and Health Sciences
and Technology at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and .
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Young
Scholar of the Month: Mustafa Karabas
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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. The young scholar in this issue is Mustafa Karabas,
Staff Mechanical Engineer of Advanced Technology Team, at Wyss
Institute of Harvard University.
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Fellowships
for PhD-level research on
non-US cultures and
societies
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The International Dissertation Research
Fellowship is open for applications from PhD students! US
citizenship is not required, and the fellowship aims to support
research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences,
advancing knowledge about non-US cultures and societies. For
more information, visit SSRC's website. The deadline for application is November 3,
2015.
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