Burcu Balçık, Bahar Yetiş, and Sibel Salman organized the EURO Working Group Mini-Conference on Humanitarian Operations 2022 in İstanbul during October 5-7. They thank all the participants for their contribution to this great event.

Global Network Week at Koç University took place on October 17-20, 2022.

The principal international journal Chemical Engineering Research and Design (ChERD) announced the “Outstanding Women in Chemical Engineering Across the Globe” selection results.

Prof. Dr. Can Erkey from Koç University and Dr. Deniz Şanlı Yıldız from Ford-Otosan organized a two-day workshop on hydrogen fuel cells for Ford-Otosan engineers at Koç University. The first day was allocated to lectures on various technical and theoretical aspects of Proton Exchane Membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The second day included a demonstration of the operation of a PEM fuel cell located at Prof. Dr. Can Erkey’s laboratory, experiments on the importance of various operating parameters on fuel cell performance and joint discussions on incorporation of a PEM fuel cell into a heavy duty truck which works with hydrogen.

Congratulations to Prof. Zeynep Aycan (Koç Holding Chair of Management & Strategy at Koç University) from the Department of Psychology and the Department of Management for being elected as the next President of IACCP (International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology).

The Politus Project will assess the commercial viability of proprietary natural language processing and machine learning technology for AI-based data-driven fair social policymaking.

NEXUS co-designs, implements, monitors and evaluates innovative and targeted actions aimed at bridging inclusivity gaps in nine research organisations and their respective R&I ecosystems with the aim to bolster institutional change through the development of inclusive Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in intersectional and intersectoral directions.

Assist. Prof. Erkan Senses organizes webinar series covering scattering techniques for nanoscale materials characterization.

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Prof. Öznur Özkasap (Computer Engineering), Prof. Sinem Çöleri (Electrical and Electronics Engineering), Assoc. Prof. Sedat Nizamoğlu (Electrical and Electronics Engineering), Assoc. Prof. Ertuğrul Başar (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) and Assoc. Prof. Nurcan Tunçbağ (Chemical and Biological Engineering) have received the TÜBİTAK 2247-A National Leader Program Grant. We are pleased to inform you that Koç University has once again received the largest number of projects (9 out of 31) and College of Engineering has received 5 project grants out of 9.