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Jason Young (Astronomy) was granted four nights of observing time on the Harlen J. Smith telescope at the McDonald Observatory to study a very faint galaxy named UGC5675 in February of 2020, the ideal time to observe this particular galaxy.


Zayim, Ayca. 2023. “The Federal Reserve, Covid-19, and the Governance of the International Monetary System.” Pp. 53-71 in Central Banking in a Post-Pandemic World: Challenges, Opportunities, and Dilemmas, edited by M. Yagci. Abingdon: Routledge.


Zayim, Ayca. 2020. “Building Confidence ‘On the Ground’: Encounters Between Finance and the Central Banks of South Africa and Turkey,” in Mustafa Yagci (Ed.). The Political Economy of Central Banking in Emerging Economies. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367823054.


Zayim, Ayca. 2014. “Differentiated Urban Citizenship and Housing Rights: Analysing the Social Impacts of Urban Redevelopment in Globalizing Istanbul.” International Planning Studies 19(3-4): 268-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2014.913475.


Zayim, Ayca. 2011. “Worker Cooperative Case Study: Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing.” University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Cooperatives Staff Paper No 9 (with Michael Billeaux, Anne Reynolds, and Trevor Young-Hyman).