Daron Acemoglu on Technology and the Future of Work
An interview conducted by Meg Murphy with The Science Academy Member Prof Daron Acemoglu on technology and the future of work can be found here.
BAGEP 2018 Applications Now Open
A top priority for the Science Academy is encouraging the youth to engage in good science, and rewarding the best examples. In order to choose and reward the best young academics and to support them in conducting new studies, an award program was initiated in the year 2013 and its fifth edition was held this year. Science Academy runs this program not with government funding, but with the support of the society at large.
The award-winning young academics are granted 15,000 TL per year for a period of two years to support them in their research. The objective here is to reward …
New Members of the Science Academy (December 2017)
The following scientists were elected as Science Academy, Turkey members at the General Assembly on 2.12.2017.
HONORARY MEMBERS
Takhmasib Aliev – Physics – Middle East Technical University
Ayşe Çağlar – Anthropology – University of Vienna
MEMBERS
Şermin Genç – Biology- Dokuz Eylul University
Murat Karaçorlu – Ophthalmology – Istanbul Retina Institute
Bülent Mengüç- Business Administration – Kadir Has University
Aydoğan Özcan – Physical and Wave Electronics – UCLA
Sinan Özeren- Geology – İstanbul Technical University
ALLEA Statement on the Patentability of Inventions Involving Human Embryonic Stem Cells
ALLEA publishes statement on the patentability of inventions involving human embryonic stem cells in Europe.
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Celal Şengör Awarded the Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership of EGU
The Science Academy, Turkey member Prof. Dr. Celal Şengör was awarded the 2018 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership of European Geosciences Union.
He will receive the medal at the EGU 2018 General Assembly, which will take place in Vienna on 8–13 April.
Here’s a list of all prize winners in 2018 and the list of past Arthur Holmes medal winners can be seen here.
Science Academy’s full membership to ALLEA confirmed
The Science Academy has been admitted as a full member of ALLEA, the ALL European Federation of Academies, in the General Assembly of ALLEA held on Sep. 4 2017, in Budapest.
The Science Academy will continue to uphold academic principles in Turkey and contribute increasingly to ALLEA projects and working groups where our members were already active since our associate membership in 2014.
Daron Acemoglu wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The Science Academy, Turkey member 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.
The BBVA Foundation awards are high-profile prizes across a range of disciplines. The foundation honors recipients in eight intellectual and artistic categories for “contributions of broad impact for their originality and theoretical significance,” including “research work that successfully enlarges the scope of our current knowledge.”
Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT.
Photo: Allegra Boverman
Timothy Garton Ash, Istanbul Conference Video
The Science Academy welcomed world-renowned historian Prof. Timothy Garton Ash , in the second of its recently launched Annual Lectures. At the conference held on 16 February 2017 at Boğaziçi University, Prof. Garton Ash gave a lecture on free speech titles “Free Speech Under Attack”
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Nature 15.02.2017 – Two Articles on Turkey
Please click to read two articles published on the latest Nature Magazine (no 542)
Steps to help Turkey build a future on research
The Turkish paradox: Can scientists thrive in a state of emergency?
IHRNASS Statement on Executive Order Banning Entry to USA
The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRNASS) released a statement on President Trump’s executive order banning entry to US for citizens of 7 countries.
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