In just under two weeks, the 35th Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkey Relations, (#USTurkeyConf), organized by the American-Turkish Council (ATC) and the Turkish US Business Council (TAIK), will convene more than 500 leaders and visionaries in the private sector, government, and the non-profit space to shape the future of business, innovation, and growth. From October 30 until November 1, 2016 in Washington, DC, more than 20 industries will be in attendance, represented by CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, members of the U.S. Congress and Turkish Parliament, and other ministers and cabinet secretaries.
Forty-seven centuries old handwritten Qurans from Turkey will be presented Saturday at the first major Quran exhibition here at the Smithsonian Institution. The Qurans were brought from the more than 100-year-old Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul. The exhibition will also include 18 Qurans from the permanent collections of the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M.Sackler Gallery – both part of the Smithsonian. The manuscripts are among the most important ever produced from geography spanning Turkey to Afghanistan and covers almost 1,000 years of the history of Islamic art between the 8th and 17th centuries.
High honors for two UNC professors: Melina Kibbe and Aziz Sancar have just been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Kibbe and Sancar are two of only 70 inductees this year from across the country. Fewer than 2,000 members have been inducted since the Academy’s founding in 1970. Melina Kibbe is chair of UNC’s Department of Surgery and editor-in-chief of the journal JAMA Surgery; a statement from UNC also describes her as “an advocate for gender equality in biomedical research.”
