METU News

A webinar on “Designing Games that Resonate with Learners and Learning” will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at 9.30 pm . Prof. Eric Kopfler will attend the webinar as the speaker.

The student team of Prof. Semra Aşcıgil won first and first runner up prizes in graduate division of the 23rd International Business Ethics Case Competition (IBECC).

“Turkish Photovoltaic Technologies Platform” Project submitted by METU GÜNAM (Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications) together with 8 other national partners to the “Call for High Technology Platforms” opened within the scope of TÜBİTAK Center of Excellence Support Program (1004 Program) has been accepted and passed to the next stage.

Zero Waste Unit placed waste collection bins at various points of the campus.

According to the Impact Rankings 2020 results announced by the world universities ranking institution Times Higher Education (THE), METU has become the university with the best results among the Turkish universities, taking place in the top 10 in the title of "clean water and sanitation".

Middle East Technical University President Prof. Dr. Mustafa Verşan Kök has made statements about various projects and programs carried out in the distance education process started by METU.

METU’s two projects are granted.

Assistant Professor Batur Ercan from METU Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, is elected as one of 28 people to receive the award within the framework of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientists Award Program.

Middle East Technical University, with the recycling application initiated within the campus, makes recycling both attractive and fun.

Lectures and speeches of METU faculty are on Spotify Podcasts, and Soundcloud.