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.

METU was awarded two awards, including first prize, in “Patenting Turkey - 2nd National Universities Patent Competition” organized by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT), at the ceremony on October 16, 2020.

Assistant Prof. Dicle Dövencioğlu, from METU Psychology Department, was awarded within the scope of the "For Women in Science" program, in cooperation with L'Oréal-UNESCO by her "Multidimensionality of softness perception in viscoelastic materials" project.

The Graduate Thesis and Course Performance Awards, aiming to reward the outstanding achievements of more than 7,000 graduate students, and to support their academic motivation at our five institutes actively continuing their education life within our university, were presented.

Altuğ Aydemir, a 2020 alum of our University’s Department of Economics, was honored to be one of the 12 economists shortlisted as “Highly Commended Entrants” in “The Global Undergraduate Awards”.

METU ROVER project was awarded the "Best Scientists" special award at the European Rover Challenge 2020, which is the most prestigious space and robotics competition in Europe, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Black Sea Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) Stakeholder Consultation Workshop within the scope of EU H2020 Black Sea CONNECT Project, which is the first multi-partner Horizon2020 consortium coordinated by METU, was held on September 16, 2020.

Assoc. Prof. Cağdaş Devrim Son from the Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics Program, leads screening the molecular docking system for potentially effective molecules for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.