Professor Aylin Küntay, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, has been honored with a prestigious Membership at the Academia Europaea. The Academia Europaea, established in 1988, stands as a distinguished European Academy of Humanities, Letters, and Sciences, comprising esteemed individual members dedicated to advancing knowledge and education throughout Europe. Professor Küntay's elevation to this esteemed position underscores her significant contributions to the fields of language and communication development, sociocognitive development, social interaction, gesture studies, child-directed input and interaction, as well as her pioneering work in the realms of social robots and education.

Prof. Selçuk Peker and Assoc. Prof. M. Yavuz Samancı, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, published the results of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of glossopharyngeal neuralgia, which is difficult to diagnose and severely impairs the quality of life of patients, in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain.