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Winners of TÜBA’s TEÇEP Awards Announced

TÜBA’s 2016 Best Authored and Translated Books Awards (TEÇEP) were granted. 146 applications were received for TÜBA’s 2016 TEÇEP Awards in the fields of natural sciences, engineering sciences, health sciences and social sciences, and 2 works in engineering and social sciences were granted the “Best Authored and Translated Books” award, with honora ...

TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Kemal Haşim Karpat Among the Recipients of “Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards”

Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards, given on October 29 every year, were granted. Recipients of the 2016 Awards are TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Kemal Haşim Karpat, Mustafa Kutlu, Prof. Erol Parlak, Şener Şen, Feridun Özgören and Ord. Prof. Süheyl Ünver. Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards are granted on behalf of the Turkish State, as per the &ldqu ...

ANUBiH Celebrated the 65th Year

TÜBA President Professor Ahmet Cevat Acar joint the celebrations of 65th Year of the Establishment of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBiH) and the 50th Year of The Issue of The Academy Law organized in Sarajevo on October, 27-28. The Minister of Social Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adil Osmanovic, Former Bosnian Presidential Council President Eyup Ganic, ...

TÜBA Honorary Member Professor Aziz Sancar was elected as member of NAM

TÜBA honorary member and 2015 Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar was elected as member of American NAM. The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), established in 1970 under the name Institute of Medicine (IOM), is an independent organization of professionals study especially on health and medicine. NAM serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering ...

“Nanoscale Friction” Study by TÜBA GEBİP Members

A team of researchers led by TÜBA GEBİP member Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Z. Baykara, which also included Asst. Prof. Engin Durgun, another TÜBA GEBİP member, published an article on “Nanoscale Friction” in the journal Nature Communications. The team of Bilkent researchers led by Asst. Prof. Mehmet Z. Baykara, a recipient of TÜBA’s 2013 GEBİP Awards and faculty memb ...