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PPS Early Career Award Award to M. Reza Nofar, ITU Faculty Member

Dr. M. Reza Nofar, Faculty Member of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department was awarded the “International Polymer Processing Society (PPS) 2020 Early Career Award”.

30 Apr 2020

ITU’s Instagram Account Ranked 115th in the World Rankings

ITU’s Instagram account (@itu1773) ranked 115th, listed in the top 200 among the official Instagram accounts of 6472 universities worldwide.

29 Apr 2020

Filter and Mask Design Cleaned by ITU with UV Radiation

Assoc. Dr. Ali Gelir, faculty member from Physics Engineering Department of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and his team have designed an “Ultraviolet (UV) Based Active Filter Mask”, which can be used continuously in the fight against coronavirus.

28 Apr 2020

ITU Scientists Sequenced the First Coronavirus Genome in Istanbul

Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Gizem Dinler Doğanay from Molecular Biology and Genetics Department of the Faculty of Science and Letters, the research team carrying out their studies in the Advanced Genetic Analysis Laboratory (GLAB), sequenced the virus genome from a patient’s sample in Istanbul.

27 Apr 2020

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NEWS SERIES: Artificial Intelligence in Education

“Artificial Intelligence in Education” is the first of the news series that we have prepared on artificial intelligence, which has started to penetrate our lives with increasing use in many areas and is an important concept of the future imagination. Accordingly, we held a comprehensive interview with Assoc. Dr. Berk Canberk, Manager of ITU Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application Research, on artificial intelligence and training in the field of increasing human resource needs in this field.

24 Apr 2020

ITU ARI Teknokent mobilized in combating novel coronavirus outbreak

ITU scientists and ITU ARI Teknokent companies and entrepreneurs made important contributions to the struggle with the novel coronavirus outbreak with their solutions.

15 Apr 2020

First Among Technical Universities

University Rankings by Academic Performance (URAP) announced the 2019-2020 rankings. ITU ranked first among technical universities in Turkey.

08 Apr 2020

International Grant Awarded to ITU Faculty Member Mert Gür in Fight Against Coronavirus

Dr. Mert Gür, from Mechanical Engineering Department, and his collaborators have been named recipients of two prestigious research awards from the USA and the European Union (EU), in both of which Mert Gür will be acting as principal investigator. The research project titled “Investigation of the Cell Attachment and Fusion Mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations” by Dr. Gür in collaboration with UC Berkeley is expected to contribute significantly to global research on developing drugs within the scope of the fight against the New Coronavirus.

08 Apr 2020

Social Isolation and Our Mental Health during Distance Education

Mental health is another issue just as important as physical health in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak.

07 Apr 2020

Flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Artificial Intelligence

In aviation, basic control methods are replaced by control methods called aggressive. Research on aircraft that use artificial intelligence technology, which we will encounter frequently in our daily life, are carried out at the ITU Aerospace Research Center (ITU ARC).

07 Apr 2020

ITU Ranks First in 5 Subjects in Turkey

The London-based rankings agency Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) announced the 2020 report that reviewed, 1,368 institutions across 48 subjects and 5 discipline. According to the report, Istanbul Technical University (ITU) took first place among universities in Turkey in five subject-areas including, Architecture and the Built Environment, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth and Marine Sciences and Environmental Sciences. With this success, ITU ranked 218th in the field of "Engineering and Technology", climbing 38 places compared to 2019 in the world rankings.

30 Mar 2020

How Do Novel Coronaviruses Affect Human Health?

The outbreak of COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus named 2019-nCoV spread from Wuhan, China, influenced the world.

09 Mar 2020

The World’s First Microtonal Guitar Festival at ITU

The world’s first Microtonal Guitar Festival took place on December 13, at the İTÜ Maçka Campus.

12 Feb 2020

Cooperation between İTÜ and St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

A new protocol of educational and scientific cooperation (MoU) has been signed between Istanbul Technical University and Peter The Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU).

12 Feb 2020

The European University workshop by EELISA consortium at İTÜ

İTÜ hosted a workshop devoted to the European University project by the EELISA consortium

20 Dec 2019

Turkish University Among World’s top 100 Green Campuses

Turkish university in Istanbul selected as 28th greenest campus in Europe, according to Green Metric

06 Dec 2019

Courses Taken at ITU Through The ATHENS Program

Istanbul Technical University, hosted 37 students from Europe between 18-22 November, within the scope of the Advance Technology Higher Education Network/ SOCRATES (ATHENS) program, which it has been running successfully since 2007. The students took courses from the Faculty of Computer and Informatics and Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

03 Dec 2019

ITU Seed Among The Worlds Top Five

ITU Seed is among the worlds top 5 Aaccording to the international UBI Global index, which compares and ranks entrepreneur incubators of the worlds leading universities, ITU Seed is among the worlds top 5.

03 Dec 2019

Internationally Renowned Geoscientists Recieve Honorary Doctorate From ITU

Honorary Doctorate diplomas were presented to Prof. John F. Dewey, Prof. Dan McKenzie and Prof. Xavier Le Pichon by Istanbul Technical University for their contributions in the development of science and technology in geoscience in the world and our nation.

18 Nov 2019

BOEING – ITU Turkish Aviation & Space Industry Joint Master’s Program

The “Air Vehicle Constructions and Materials Master’s Program” will be conducted by Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and The Turkish Aviation & Space Industy (TUSAŞ), with the contributions of Boeing.

11 Nov 2019