Prof. Omar M. Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley, Honorary Member of TÜBA, has been awarded the IUPAC-Soong Prize for Sustainable Chemistry by the International Union of Fundamental and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
TÜBA President Prof. Muzaffer Şeker attended the “G20 Chief Science Advisers Roundtable (CSAR)” as part of the G20 Summit in Pretoria, South Africa. In 2025, TÜBA Full Member Prof. Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev took part in the CSAR Meeting themed “Equity-based science, technology and innovation for inclusive human development and global sustainability”.
TÜBA is following with deep concern recent developments across several universities in the United States, where peaceful expressions of conscience in response to the grave humanitarian crisis in Gaza have been met with serious restrictions.
Prof. Kadriye Arzum Erdem Gürsan, a principal member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) and a faculty member at Ege University, has been elected for the fifth time to the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Committee of the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA).
TÜBA President Prof. Muzaffer Şeker visited Prof. Marileen Dogterom, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).