Prof Dr. İlkay Salihoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Yücel

The finalists of "Green Brain International of the Year International Project Competition" organized by METU Northern Cyprus Campus (METU NCC) for high school and university students to raise awareness of sustainable energy and water resources have been determined. In the competition where projects from 40 different countries participated, 9 finalist teams performed their presentations in the event organized.

Prof. Dr. Vasıf Hasırcı, the founder of METU Center of Excellence in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, and his Ph.D. student, Dr. Menekşe Ermiş Şen, developed a chip technology that determines cancer cells in a very short time from body liquids such as saliva, blood, sputum and urine.

22 entrepreneurs who attended the acceleration program held in Turkey and US as part of the New Ideas New Jobs (NINJ) acceleration program organized for the 13th time this year by METU and ODTÜ TEKNOKENT told us about their initiatives to steer the future making their presentations on Demo Day held on October 14, 2017. Entrepreneurs tried to influence the participants with their project, which they only told in 3 minutes.

Achieving great success in education and research fields, METU has broken a new ground by meeting science and scientists with photography through METU Science Communication Team (SCT) established recently. Taking the photos of world famous figures, Mehmet Turgut focused on scientists from METU this time.

Prof.Dr.-Ing. Mahmut Onur Karslıoğlu from METU Department of Civil Engineering has been granted the 2017 Science Award of the National Geodetic Commission of Turkish National Union of Geodesy and Geophysics for his concrete contributions to the development of Geodesy discipline, a part of earth and near earth space science, and to the strengthening of its relation with different disciplines; and to the promotion of the studies conducted in our country through the national and international roles that he has undertaken.

The METU Career Fair, which is held twice a year to meet METU students with companies, was held on November 2-3, 2017 with participation of three special participants, forty-seven companies, three sponsors and three thousand people. Taking place in the Culture and Convention Center, the event focused on renewable energy in the small foyer area. In the panels moderated by Mehmet Auf, Prof. Dr. Raşit Turan, Director of METU-DUNAM (The Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications); Prof. Dr.

To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, All the METU FEAS students, alumni, retirees and current academic and administrative staff came together in the FEAS-A and B buildings on October 21, 2017. In the event that started with the opening remarks of the Prof. Dr. Özlem Özdemir, Dean of METU FEAS, and Oktar Türel, a former Dean of METU FEAS, continued with the selected videos of professors, alumni and students.

Organized in cooperation with Middle East Technical University and METU Alumni Associations to have talks with scientists in public places about public issues, the seventh Science Café event was held in Gaziantep on Friday, December 8, 2017. Assoc.Prof.

Applications for My METU Short Film/Video Competition held for the second time this year by GISAM (Audio-Visual Systems Research and Production Center) with the support of METU President's Office and Development Foundation will continue until April 27, 2018.

Organized for all METU students; My METU Short Film/Video Competition aims to promote the Middle East Technical University from the perspective of the students as well as encouraging young people to meet with cinema.