In 2021, AdımODTÜ funded 64 undergraduate research projects in which more than 190 students took part. The number of funded projects for undergraduate research was 17 in 2018, 27 in 2019, and 57 in 2020. Thus, the number of projects funded by AdımODTÜ has reached a total of 165, with approximately 800 students studying in them.
Furthermore, among the presentations made at the AdımODTÜ Undergraduate Research Day event held on December 22, 2021, the projects receiving the “Best Poster Award” were announced. The Best Poster Award was shared by the project titled “Identification of Novel Mixed Lineage Leukemia 1 (MLL1) Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy,” in which Olka Missaghimamaghani, Fatimah Safieh, and Ilir Sheraj took part in addition to Prof. Sreeparna Banerjee as the project supervisor, and the project titled “Effect of Haptic Exploratory Processes on Online Shopping Experience,” in which Fatma Çelebi, Hümeyra Aybüke Bilir, and İzel Deniz Vardar took part in addition to the project supervisor Asst. Prof. Dicle Dövencioğlu. The runner-up for the best poster award was the project named “Fener the Object Tracking Robot,” conducted by Evren Uçar, Meral Şahin, Muhammed İzzet Sezer, Rüya Gülşah Ulutaş, Şevval Belkıs Dikkaya, and Yusuf Onat Yılmaz, under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Werner Schmidt. The third place was shared by the “QRegister” project carried out by Deniz Karakay, Alkım Dömeke, and Hümeyra Bodur under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Pınar Angın, and the project titled “The Upcycling of Waste Fried Oils,” conducted by Duygu İnce, Ecem Baskın, Anıl Yılmazkan, and Melda Öcalan, with Asst. Prof. Simge Çınar Aygün as the project supervisor.
Further information regarding the funded projects can be reached at https://adimodtu.org.tr/proje/lisans-arastirmalari-projesi.
