News – Bilim Akademisi

Our member Daron Acemoğlu won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics

Our member Daron Acemoğlu won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Our member Daron Acemoğlu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

The Nobel Prize, given for their work on “the formation of institutions and their impact on prosperity,” is considered one of the most prestigious scientific awards in the field of economics.

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By İlke Candar|14/10/2024|Comments Off

The Results of BAGEP 2024 have been announced!

Initiated by the Science Academy, Türkiye and supported by individual and institutional investors, the results of the Science Academy Young Scientists Award Program (BAGEP) 2024 have been announced.

Forty-two new awards are added to the 435 awards given since 2013 with the aim of identifying, rewarding and supporting young academicians in conducting new studies.

We congratulate the young academicians who won BAGEP 2024 award. Please click here for the names.

Our award ceremony will be held on Saturday 27 April 2024 at Koç University. Please click here for the program.

We would like to take this opportunity to extend our …

By İlke Candar|25/04/2024|Comments Off

ALLEA “The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity” 2023 revised edition

ALLEA released the 2023 revised edition of “The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity” which reflects the latest views of the research community on good research practices.

Please click here European-Code-of-Conduct-Revised-Edition-2023 to read the latest version.

By Yaprak Özışık|04/08/2023|Comments Off

New Members of the Science Academy (December 2022)

The following scientists were elected as Science Academy, Turkey members at the General Assembly on 14.12.2022.

HONORARY MEMBER

Sanjit K. Mitra – University of California,

MEMBERS

Ziyadin Çakır – Jeoloji – İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi

Cem Ersoy – Bilgisayar Mühendisliği – Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Seda Ertaç – Ekonomi – Koç Üniversitesi

Ece Göztepe – Hukuk – Bilkent Üniversitesi

Ali Hortaçsu – Ekonomi – The University of Chicago

Aylin Yener -Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği – The Ohio State University

Kübra Doğan Yenisey – Hukuk – İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi

By Yaprak Özışık|24/12/2022|Comments Off

Bilim Akademisi supports IHRN Executive Committee Statement

The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRN) is an alliance of more than 90 honorary societies that defends the fundamental rights of scholars worldwide and supports academic institutions under threat. We, the members of the IHRN’s Executive Committee, strongly condemn the ban against women’s participation in higher education in Afghanistan announced this week by the Taliban’s acting Minister of Higher Education. Denying women access to education is a gross violation of fundamental international human rights standards, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination …

By Yaprak Özışık|23/12/2022|Comments Off

European Research Council Funding for Tolga Mete Duman and Ömer İlday

The Science Academy, Bilim Akademisi members; Prof. Tolga Mete Duman of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Assoc. Prof. Ömer İlday of the Departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics, the Neuroscience Program and UNAM have had their projects selected for funding under the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation funding program, after submitting proposals in response to the European Research Council (ERC) 2021 advanced grant call. The total budget for the two projects will be nearly 5 million euros.

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By Yaprak Özışık|28/04/2022|Comments Off

Science Academy, Turkey – Statement regarding the Military Attack of Russia on Ukraine

The Science Academy, Turkey, strongly condemns the military attack of Russia on Ukraine, a sovereign and democratic state, violating all rules of international law and causing unprecedented harm to the basic tenets of the United Nations Charter. The Preamble of the Charter states its objective as ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights […] of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice …

By Maral Sahin|07/03/2022|Comments Off

New Members of the Science Academy (December 2021)

The following scientists were elected as Science Academy, Turkey members at the General Assembly on 04.12.2021.

HONORARY MEMBER

Cumhur Öner – Tıp – Utrecht Üniversitesi

MEMBERS

Ufuk Akçiğit – Ekonomi – Chicago Üniversitesi

Moshe Arditi – Tıp – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Attila Çiner – Jeoloji – İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi

Alper Demir – Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği – Koç Üniversitesi

Tolga Mete Duman – Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği – Bilkent Üniversitesi

Ali Erdemir – Makine Mühendisliği – Texas A&M University

Can Erkey – Kimya – Koç Üniversitesi

Hülya Kayserili – Tıp – Koç Üniversitesi

Haluk Külah – Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği – Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi

Özhan Özatay – …

By Yaprak Özışık|07/12/2021|Comments Off

Bilim Akademisi Report on Academic Freedoms 2020-2021 (Summary)

The Science Academy has been publishing reports on academic freedom since the year 2015, summarizing the developments and sharing them with the public. The report we have drafted this year is once more a compendium of outstanding violations of academic freedoms in our country. Most of the violations stem from the authority accorded to the President of the Republic under the new laws or decrees, which make interventions and violations such as those enacted at Bogazici University possible, without any proper justification or dialogue with the university bodies before taking action in such critical matters as appointments or the creation …

By Maral Sahin|22/11/2021|Comments Off

New President of Bilim Akademisi

Bilim Akademisi General Assembly (GA) that had been postponed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic for the last 18 months, was finally held on June 17, 2021. Bilim Akademisi founding president Prof. Dr. Ali Alpar handed over the task to our new president, Prof. Dr. Canan Atılgan who was elected during the GA.

Prof. Atılgan has been a member of Bilim Akademisi since 2012. Her research interests are polymer and protein dynamics, theoretical and computational investigation of complex molecular systems. (http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/canan/)

We are grateful to Prof. Alpar for his leadership, patience, persistence. All his efforts have made Bilim Akademisi into the internationally recognized, reputable …

By Maral Sahin|19/07/2021|Comments Off