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TASSA Newsletter The Bridge - Volume 5, Issue 5,
November/December 2016
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TASSA NEWS
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TASSA
Elects Four Directors of the Board
TASSA held elections for four Board members whose terms
expired in 2016. Huseyin Abut, Murat Gunel, Aydogan Ozcan and Mehmet
Toner completed their terms as the Board of Directors.
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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, the Executive Committee includes the President, one or
more Vice Presidents, the Managing Director, the Treasurer, and the
Editor of the Bridge.
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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.
The opening reception took place at the Embassy of Austria, Washington
D.C. on December 5 followed by the full event at the Embassy of
Slovakia, Washington, D.C. on December 6.
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TURKISH SCIENCE DIASPORA NEWS
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Aydogan Ozcan Receives the
Inaugural Rahmi Koc Science Award
Aydogan
Ozcan, a member of the TASSA Board of Directors, Receives the
inaugural Rahmi Koc Science Award. Prof. Ozcan received this award
for a blood test device that can be mounted to a cell phone.
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Canan Dagdeviren Wins Two Prestigious Awards
Canan
DAGDEVIREN wins The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young
Scientists in the Translational Medicine Category and the 2016 Fatos
Buyukkusoglu Strong Women Award.
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Feryal Ozel receives Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Feryal
Ozel receives Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Feryal Ozel
is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of
Astronomy at The University of Arizona. She has made pioneering
contributions to the physics of neutron stars and black holes, as
well as to the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies in the early
Universe.
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE
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A flexible
CIGS solar cells fabricated using electrodeposition
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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.
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GRANT
OPPORTUNITIES
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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.
The scholarship is given in memory of Sena Eken Schieber. Several
awards will be made annually, up to $25,000 each, to cover tuition
and/or living expenses.
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The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Call for Proposals
 The
Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) provide grants for all
stages of researchers' careers - be they doctoral candidates or
highly experienced researchers - and encourage transnational,
intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.
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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. The partner should have an expertise
in mining industry, steel aluminum, foundry industry,
semiconductor manufacturer, casting of any type of
metals -aluminum, copper, steel, forge etc.,
and can be a large scale corporation, KOBI or all other non-academic
organizations.
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YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF THE MONTH
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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. We have two young scholars
in this issue:
SERDAR ABACI
Educational Research and Evaluation Specialist
Learning Technologies Division
University Information Technology Services
Indiana University
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Serdar's interview
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2016
TASSA CONFERENCE SPONSORS
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TASSA INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
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TASSA's mission is to promote
educational, scientific and technological cooperation between the USA
and Turkey and to facilitate the advancement of science in Turkey and
the USA through scientific exchange, educational programs and
increased networking.
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