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Ahmedşah Bilgi, senior from IUE Department of Translation and Interpretation who came in first place, and Yasemin Memiş and Mustafa Serhat Atalay, who shared the second prize at the 2016 Young Translators Competition held by the Ministry of EU Affairs, received their awards from Rauf Engin Soysal, Undersecretary of Ministry of European Union Affairs. Prof. Dr. Lütfiye Oktar, Head of IUE Department of Translation and Interpretation, accompanied the students to the ceremony that took place in Ankara.

Turkey is no longer a young population. Proportion of elderly population, which is increasing each year, reached 8.2% in 2015. Melahat Kızıl, Lecturer at IUE Vocational School of Health Services, Elderly Care Program, commented about Turkish Statistical Institute’s data and she said that increase in elderly population required some serious state policies. She said, “Rapid increase in elderly population pose a threat in terms of social security systems. If we suppose that the elderly has at least one chronic disease, it will be a significant burden in terms of health and care issues.”   

It has been reported that tolerance towards Muslim immigrants in European Union countries has decreased after Charlie Hebdo and November 2015 Paris attacks, and that the immigrants from Turkey were perceived as a threat to social life.  

Patients, who have hard time following their prescriptions, will soon find a relief. The “Smart Pill Dispenser” project, developed by students of Izmir University of Economics (IUE), will put an end to the worries of patients who wonder if they took their pill, if they took it on time, or if they took it more than one time. The system, intended for patients who need to take multiple pills regularly, classify the pills based on times and their types. When it is time to take the pill, it drops down to the box, and warns the patient via sound and vibration. 

Judges and prosecutors, who completed their training on arbitration, received their certificates. Feyzi Öztürk, Acting Chief Prosecutor of Izmir Courthouse and Prof. Dr. Oğuz Esen, Rector of IUE, awarded the certificates to 112 judges and prosecutors who got trained by Izmir University of Economics Continuous Education Center (IUECEC). Ömer Ömeroğlu, Acting Chief Prosecutor, Celal Kocabaş, High Court Chief Prosecutor of Izmir Regional Courts of Justice, judges and prosecutors attended the ceremony.

They bake pastries and muffins and collect donations to make sick children happy. Students of Department of Culinary Arts and Management, Izmir University of Economics (IUE) strive to make children, who are hospitalized at Children’s Oncology Ward at Dokuz Eylül University Hospital, happy for the past 3 years. The students Ezgi Usluer, Fulya Sivritaş, Selin Akay, and Merve Öztürk volunteer to make the sick children forget all the pain and hardship they experience during their treatments. 

Intergenerational communication in business life was discussed at Izmir University of Economics. Changes experienced in intergenerational work systems were discussed in detail at the “1^st Human Resources Summit” co-organized with the Human Management Association of Turkey (PERYON) Aegean Branch.   

Young chefs of Izmir University of Economics will be learning the finesse of baking and decorating cakes from the master chefs of İnstitut Paul Bocuse. The collaboration agreement signed between Department of Culinary Arts and Management and İnstitut Paul Bocuse will allow teaching the finesse of baking cakes to the future chefs of IUE. Ekrem Demirtaş, President of IUE Board of Trustees, visited the students in the kitchen and baked with them.    

The experts stated that our good intentions might be causing harm to the “injured”. The statistics revealed that the folks took the issue of performing first aid lightly, and they believed that it was something they could manage “on their own”. Even though 91.5% of folks who participated in the “Assessment of First Aid Knowledge of Individuals” study claimed that they would call 112 in an emergency, when an emergency situation came up, the rate of folks calling 112 came all the way down to 4%’s.

The experts recommend 2 million 178 thousand 563 students, who are going to take Transition to Higher Education Examination (YGS) this weekend, to leave aside negative thoughts and focus on their future. The experts, who gave “golden” advice to prospective university students before the exam on March 13, said that it was very normal for students to get excited but they wanted the students to repeat the phrase, “I can do this, I want to do this, I will do all that I can at the exam”.