The proposal "BRIDGE-BS" submitted as coordinator to the "H2020-BG-2018-2020" call under the lead of Prof. Dr. Barış Salihoğlu and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yücel has been accepted for funding.

Assoc. Mecit H. Öztop's FunTomP project will be supported within the scope of Horizon 2020.

The METU Alumni Office has commissioned a "60thAnniversary Commemorative Medallion" to honor and extend our deepest gratitude to the first alumni.

Organized by The Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GÜNAM) of our University, the2nd International Conference on Photovoltaic Science and Technologies is held online between November 30 and December 2, 2020, within the scope of coronavirus restrictions.

Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu from the Biological Sciences Department and her team including Prof. Zuhal Akyürek from the Civil Engineering Department and Asst. Prof.Antoine Dolcerocca from the Sociology Department of the Middle East Technical University are part of a consortium running a new Horizon 2020 project, 'PONDERFUL', led by the University of Vic (Spain).

Berkay Özbek, a graduate of the Electrical-Electronics Engineering undergraduate program of our university, a graduate student under the supervision of Prof. Haluk Külah and research assistant at the same department, will be supported within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 1512 Techno-Entrepreneurship Capital Support Program with his project.

Study of Assoc. Prof. Ulaş Yaman and Prof. Melik Dölen entitled as “Generation of Patterned Indentations for Additive Manufacturing Technologies” has been selected as the Best Design and Manufacturing Application paper by the journal of IISE Transactions.

Since our university's 2019-2020 Academic Year Diploma Ceremony was in the pandemic period, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Verşan Kök, the President, congratulated our top-ranked graduates for their outstanding success by contacting them.

The scientific article entitled “Impact of nutrients and water level changes on submerged macrophytes along a temperature gradient: A pan-European mesocosm experiment,” co-authored by Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu, Zeynep Ersoy, Tuba Bucak and Eti Levi together with Prof. Erik Jeppesen, is published in “Global Change Biology”.

The construction of the "METU Students Co-working Area" will begin at the end of November 2020, and it is planned to be completed and put into service in September 2021.