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.

“The Regulatory Role of hNRNPA1 on microRNA Genes” project, coordinated by Prof. Ayşe Elif Erson Bensan from Biological Sciences Department, was granted the grand award in the Oncology Summit Project Competition.

Professor Ahmet Cevdet Yalçıner was granted the 2019 Hamaguchi Award, given by Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

A sitcom series will be shot with a fun language about the lives of our students in and around METU.