Wins a global civics competition

Wins a global civics competition

Selected globally as one of the three students to win a global civics competition (by United Nations and the Open Society Institute) is FASS economics BA student Sevgi Şairoğlu.

Sevgi will fly to New York and Washington DC to meet with the board of the Brookings Institute and Ban Ki-Moon.

VACD MA alumni Sinan Büyükbaş's artwork was selected by the behance.net

VACD MA alumni Sinan Büyükbaş's artwork was selected by the behance.net

Achievement: ImageCLEF Plant Identification Competition

Achievement: ImageCLEF Plant Identification Competition
The plant recognition system developed by our faculty member Berrin Yanıkoğlu,
in collaboration with her doctoral student Çağlar Tırkaz and Erchan Aptoulla from 
Okan University, has received 1st place in the international ImageCLEF Plant Identification 2012
competition. The goal of the competition was to automatically recognize the plant in an

Most prestigious conference

Most prestigious conference

Dr Deniz Kurtoğlu Eken, Director of School of Languages of our University, has been invited as a plenary speaker to IATEFL UK Annual Conference, most prestigious conference in the field of ELT, organized annually by the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), which was established in 1967 and has around 4000 members. The upcoming conference will be held in Liverpool on April 8-12, 2013. 

Time to vote for your favourite blog post-Tell us your (Ex)change story

Time to vote for your favourite blog post-Tell us your (Ex)change story

The blog contest “Tell us your (Ex)change story” was launched by IRO in April and applications to the contest were received until 15 June 2012. All submitted posts have been evaluated by the jury based on the competition rules. Now the best six posts are open to vote on facebook.

You can vote for your favourite blog post and help your candidates get the highest point and increase their chance of winning until 2 July 2012, 8:30 am.

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