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Prof. Zehra Özlem Keskin Özkaya

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KARMA Lab was awarded funding for the project Awards and Honors

KARMA Lab was awarded funding for the project "HERIFORGE"

Koç University KARMA Lab was awarded funding under the HORIZON-WIDERA-ACCESS-07 Excellence Hubs call within the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for the project "Cultural Heritage and Immersive Technologies for Innovation Forge" (HERIFORGE). The HERIFORGE project aims to support interconnected ecosystems in Poland, Cyprus, and Türkiye, providing an innovative and cutting-edge R&D environment in Creative Cultural Industries (CCIs). This project seeks to enhance social resilience through the use of XR technologies and the responsible use of cultural heritage. With HERIFORGE, the number of projects at Koç University eligible for support has reached 24 since the program started in February 2021.

Asst. Prof. Levent Beker ERC (European Research Council) Grant Highlighted News

Asst. Prof. Levent Beker ERC (European Research Council) Grant

Asst. Prof. Levent Beker from our Department of Mechanical Engineering has been honored with the prestigious ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his pioneering project, "Wearable Ultrasound for Continuous Bladder Monitoring." Dr. Beker, the sole recipient of this esteemed support from Türkiye, is at the forefront of developing an innovative solution that enables patients to monitor their bladder volume outside the hospital setting continuously. In this 18-month project, with a budget of 150,000 Euros, Dr. Beker will collaborate with Prof. Tufan Tarcan and Assoc. Prof. Ersin Köseoğlu from the School of Medicine.

Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe Research

Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe

Prof. Şener Aktürk from our Department of International Relations published the article “Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe," which examines the causes and consequences of the ethno-religious cleansing of non-Christians in medieval Western Europe in International Security, one of the most prestigious journals in the field.

KARMA Lab was awarded funding for the project Awards and Honors

KARMA Lab was awarded funding for the project "HERIFORGE"

Koç University KARMA Lab was awarded funding under the HORIZON-WIDERA-ACCESS-07 Excellence Hubs call within the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for the project "Cultural Heritage and Immersive Tec...

Asst. Prof. Levent Beker ERC (European Research Council) Grant Highlighted News

Asst. Prof. Levent Beker ERC (European Research Council) Grant

Asst. Prof. Levent Beker from our Department of Mechanical Engineering has been honored with the prestigious ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his pioneering project, "Wearable Ultrasound for Continuous ...

Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe Research

Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe

Prof. Şener Aktürk from our Department of International Relations published the article “Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe," which examines the...

Assoc. Prof. Elif Nur Fırat Karalar - European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Member Awards and Honors

Assoc. Prof. Elif Nur Fırat Karalar - European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Member

Our faculty member Assoc. Prof. Elif Nur Fırat Karalar from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and School of Medicine has been elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Orga...

Professor Ayişe Karadağ American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Membership Awards and Honors

Professor Ayişe Karadağ American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Membership

Dean of the School of Nursing, Prof. Ayişe Karadağ, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) for her significant, sustained, and extraordinary impact on health and healt...

Established Thought Leader in Consumer Research Research

Established Thought Leader in Consumer Research

Prof. Zeynep Gürhan Canlı, has been recognized as an "Established Thought Leader in Consumer Research" by a recently published comprehensive scholarly benchmarking analysis.