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TASSA Newsletter The Bridge - Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2017

 

 

In This Issue:

·        Daron Acemoglu wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

·        Two TASSA Officials Receive Prestigious Awards

·        Two Turkish-American Scientists are the recipients of the Presidential Early-Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers

·        Four Turkish American Scientists are inducted to the National Academy of Engineering

·        Two Young Researchers Receive Recognition for Their Work

 

 

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TASSA NEWS

 

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 OutrageTASSA is Outraged with President Trump's Immigration Decision

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The Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA) would like to express its disappointment and deep concern about the Executive Order (Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorists Entry into the United States) signed by President Trump on January 27, 2017.   

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Nearly 150 Institutions and Societies Sign a Statement Addressed to President Donald Trump

 

Nearly 150 Institutions and Societies sign a statement addressed to President Donald Trump, voicing their concert about the White House Executive Order on visas and immigration. 


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DuyguTASSA reaches out to a School Teacher in Turkey; Duygu Atmis   

 

A 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!   

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TURKISH SCIENCE DIASPORA NEWSDiaspora

 

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Daron Acemoglu

StatementDaron Acemoglu wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

 

MIT economist Daron Acemoglu has won this year's BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Economics, Finance, and Management, in honor of his prolific research contributions that have helped reshape his discipline over the last two decades. 

 

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 CananMehmetTwo TASSA Officials Receive Prestigious Awards

 

  • TASSA Board Member Mehmet Toner is inducted to the 2016 National Academy of Inventors. Read More... 
  • TASSA Executive Committee Member Canan Dagdeviren is named as a2017 Innovation and Technology Delegate of Academy of Achievement. Read More...

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Mehmet Toner

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Canan Dagdeviren

 

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Two Turkish-American Scientists are the recipients of the
Presidential Early-Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

  

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Sinan Keten

Nurcin Celik

It is our pleasure to inform you that two Turkish-American Scientists Nurcin Celik, PhD and Sinan Keten PhD are the recipients of the Presidential Early-Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering. President Obama announced the name of the 102 scientists who are honored with this award today, January 10, 2017.


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 NAEAwardsFour Turkish American Scientists are inducted to the National Academy of Engineering

 

TASSA is proud to announce that four Turkish American Scientists are inducted to the National Academy of Engineering.

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Birol Dindoruk

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Ali Dogru

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Mehmet Toner

 

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MustafaTwo Young Researchers Receive Recognition for Their Work

 

Mustafa Unal received three prestigious awards; The Coblentz Student Award, The Coblentz William Fateley Student Award and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Graduate Student Award.


Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) researcher, Onder Albayram, MSci, PhD, has been awarded an Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship Grant.

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Onder Albayram

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Mustafa Unal

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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE

 

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tayfunTayfun Sonmez on "Matching Markets, Market Design and Kidney Exchange" 

 

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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 available seats in public school classrooms were auctioned off to the highest bidder or, for those needing a kidney transplant, people were made to outbid each other for a vital life-saving organ. 

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YoungScientist

YOUNG SCIENTIST 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. This month's young scientist is: 

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Emre Ozkumur

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Emre Ozkumur

 

 

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In every issue of The Bridge, we will now include science cartoons by Ergun Akleman. In this issue, we have a page from Engineering History: Discovery of Fire. This science cartoon was originally published in Cumhuriyet - Bilim ve Teknik exactly 30 years ago, in 1987. 

 

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