Dear ODTÜ Members,

As part  of ODTÜ’s 60^th Anniversary Honarary Lecture Series Spring Program, Prof. Michael W. Apple will give a talk on "Educational Realities and the Tasks of the Critical Educator” on May 12, 2016 Thursday at 14.00 in Culture and Convention Center Kemal Kurdas Hall. 

Prof. Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He also holds Distinguished Professor appointments at the University of Manchester and Northeast Normal University in China. 

A former elementary and secondary school teacher and past-president of a teachers union, he has worked with educational systems, governments, universities, unions, and activist and dissident groups throughout the world to democratize educational research, policy, and practice. Professor Apple has written extensively on the politics of educational reform, on the relationship between culture and power, and on education for social justice. He is one of the leading scholars of critical pedagogy.

Professor Apple has been selected as one of the fifty most important educational scholars in the 20th Century.  His books Ideology and Curriculum and Official Knowledge were also selected as two of the most significant books on education in the 20th Century. He is the editor of an international series of books published by Routledge, Critical Social Thought.

He has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Educational Research Association, the UCLA Medal for "Outstanding Academic Achievement," and a number of honorary doctorates by universities throughout the world.
Professor Apple has worked on educational reform, lectured and taught in a considerable number of countries throughout the world, where his material has been extremely influential in the development of more socially critical and democratic educational policies and practices.

The poster of the event can be found below.

Dear ODTÜ Members,

Within the framework of the Spring Program of ODTÜ 60^th Anniversary Guest Speakers Series, Bob Hodgson will deliver a conference entitled "Fostering the Knowledge Economy” in Kemal Kurdaş Hall, Culture and Convention Center on Monday, April 11 at 14:00 hrs.

Bob Hodgson is the Managing Director of Zernike Ltd, which is based in the United Kingdom and conducts work internationally. The company manages ICT focused incubator centers and provides seed capital for knowledge based firms.

Bob Hodgson has worked in more than 60 countries, particularly, on innovation policies and technology commercialization in collaboration with international agencies like the World Bank as well as regional and local agencies .

Prior to the launching of Zernike (UK), Hodgson was executive director of SQW Ltd. During this period, the company published its path-breaking study "The Cambridge Phenomenon", which explains the technological transformation experienced since the 1960s in the city of Cambridge and the incredible improvements there regarding technology focused initiatives and companies.

Bob Hodgson’s biography and the poster of the event can be found below.

Bob Hodgson is the Managing Director of Zernike (UK) which manages an ICT focused incubator and provides start up capital for knowledge based firms. He has nearly thirty years of international consulting experience – he has worked in more than 60 countries including nearly 30 on innovation policies and technology commercialization half with international agencies like the World Bank and half with national, regional and local agencies and the private sector. He is regularly invited to give keynotes at international fora such as the Innovation Forum for the Americas in Uruguay; conferences on Intellectual Property strategies for SMEs for WIPO in Buenos Aires, Cairo and Rome; a workshop on technology and innovation for the World Bank in Korea. In 2009 he was co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation in New Delhi. In June 2010 he is one of the main presenters at the global course on Innovation Policy for the World Bank in Washington DC.

Prior to the launching of Zernike (UK), Bob was for 14 years an executive director of SQW Ltd which is best known for its path breaking study "The Cambridge Phenomenon", published in 1983 and subsequently updated with an analysis of the position among high tech firms in the Cambridge region in 1999. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Innovation, Creativity and Capital at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his time with SQW, he spent 8 years with the consultancy side of Coopers & Lybrand, working internationally from a London base.

The British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has announced the 2016 rankings of the world’s top universities by subject. QS have declared that they assessed 4,226 leading world universities for this ranking, and by measuring their performances, specified 945 top universities in 42 different scientific subjects.

In the rankings which can be found at the address http://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings, ODTÜ is among the world’s “top” universities in 12 scientific subjects, thus representing Turkey in the highest number of fields. ODTÜ, which appeared in the lists of 10 subjects last year, was the only Turkish university to increase its number of fields this year. Among other universities representing Turkey in these rankings, İTU appeared in the lists of 8 subjects, İD Bilkent University 5, Boğaziçi University 4, Hacettepe University 2, Ankara University, İstanbul University and Koç University 1 subject each.

ODTÜ was one of the two Turkish universities that appeared in ‘the World’s top 100 universities’ list for Mineral & Mine Engineering. In addition, ODTÜ appeared in ‘the World’s top 150 universities’ list in 4 subjects (Statistics & Operational Research, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Civil & Structural Engineering, Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering), in ‘the World’s top 200 universities’ list in 4 subjects (Politics & International Studies, Education, Earth & Marine Sciences, Chemical Engineering), in ‘the World’s top 300 universities’ list in 2 subjects (Physics & Astronomy, Computer Science & Information Systems) and  in ‘the World’s top 350 universities’ list in 1 subject (Mathematics).

In these rankings, ITU was among the top 100 universities in 1 subject (Mineral & Mine Engineering), top 150 universities in 1 subject (Earth & Marine Sciences ), top 200 universities in 4 subjects (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Structural Engineering), top 350 universities in 1 subject (Computer Science & Information Systems), top 400 universities in 1 subject (Physics & Astronomy). İD Bilkent University was among top 150 universities in 1 subject (Politics & International Studies), top 200 universities in 1 subject (Electrical & Electronic Engineering), top 300 universities in 1 subject (Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering), top 350 universities in 1 subject (Computer Science & Information Systems) and top 400 in 1 subject (Physics & Astronomy). Boğaziçi University was among top 250 universities in 1 subject (Electrical & Electronic Engineering), top 300 universities in 3 subjects (Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering, Education, Computer Science & Information Systems). Hacettepe University was among top 300 universities in 2 subjects (Medicine, Education), Koç University was among top 200 universities in 1 subject (Politics & International Studies), İstanbul University was among top 300 universities in 1 subject (Medicine), and Ankara University was among top 400 universities in 1 subject (Medicine).

I would like to congratulate and extend my gratitude to our academic units, faculty and students for the honor of their success in these rankings.

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Acar

President

WE ARE GRIEVING DEEPLY, WE CONDEMN TERROR

We have encountered another atrocious terror attack targeting innocent people in Ankara.

Our university has lost two of its students in this inhumane assault. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering student Berkay Baş and Electrical and Electronics Engineering English Language Preparatory School student Ozancan Akkuş have died.

We are in deep grief.

May those who lost their lives rest in peace. We extend our sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wish our wounded citizens recovery.

We condemn terror and reiterate our call to bring an end to all sorts of violence.