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TASSA Newsletter The Bridge - Volume 6, Issue 1, March
2017
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TASSA NEWS
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TASSA is Outraged with President Trump's Immigration
Decision
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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TASSA 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 NEWS
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Daron
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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Two 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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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
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Nurcin
Celik
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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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Four 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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SeldaGunsel
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Mehmet
Toner
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Two Young Researchers Receive
Recognition for Their Work
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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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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE
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Tayfun Sonmez on "Matching Markets, Market Design
and Kidney Exchange"
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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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:
Emre Ozkumur
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SCIENCE
CARTOONS
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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.
Click for the full Cartoon
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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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