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As Turkey witnessed the deaths of its 18 thousand citizens in the Marmara Earthquake on August 17, 1999, the experts stated that building inspections, in the 15 years since the tragedy, were not done properly. Based on the official records, 18 thousand people have lost their lives, another 23 thousand got wounded, 135 thousand buildings have collapsed, and 600 thousand people were left homeless in that earthquake. Concerns about building stock in Turkey continued, and it has been indicated that construction companies needed to stop selecting the inspection companies on their own. 

Lecturers of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Department of Mathematics will be studying the features of a new module in invariant theory with a TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Project they developed. Asst. Prof. Dr. Uğur Madran and his Ph.D. student Deniz Erdemirci Erkuş prepared a project in order to develop a larger model that will include special cases not covered by the theory, and will bring a different point of view to the theory which will ease the coding theory used in wireless communication. The study, which is granted 61 thousand Turkish Liras by Mathematics, Physics Research Support Group within TUBITAK, will last for 18 months.

Izmir University of Economics (IUE) is making it easy for those who want to make a difference in their careers by having a graduate degree, with “distance education model”. IUE allows students to benefit from technological facilities and improve themselves by offering distance education in addition to graduate programs with or without thesis. All of the courses in IUE e-MBA programs are taught live on the internet environment.

After the Soma Disaster, where 301 miners have lost their lives and deeply saddened Turkey, Merve Çelebi and Seba Acar, graduates of Izmir University of Economics (IUE), Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, used coals in their design in memory of the miners. Çelebi and Acar, in a study they started as graduation project, used 301 pieces of coal in the glasses in their design to commemorate the miners who have lost their lives in the Soma Disaster. 

Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Fashion and Textile Design will promote the production processes of Turkish textile in England. Lecturers and students of De Monfort University (England) Department of Fashion and Textile Design and IUE Department of Fashion and Textile Design created a joint project for “FEED – IN Educational Collaborations Competition” organized by British Council. As a result, the project was chosen. Students of Izmir Economics will share samples of Turkish textile from design to production in England. As part of the project, lecturers and students of De Monfort University (England) Department of Fashion and Textile Design will also come and visit textile companies operating in Izmir.

Construction of Izmir Science and Technology Park Technology Development Region (İzmir Bilimpark), which is co-established by Izmir University of Economics and Izmir Chamber of Commerce, has started in ITOB Organized Industry Region. Ekrem Demirtaş, Presdient of IUE Board of Trustees, IUE Rector Prof. Dr. Oğuz Esen, and faculty members threw the first shovel of cement mortar for İzmir Bilimpark which will be completed at the end of the year and ready to serve in 2015. Start of the construction initiated the applications of the entrepreneurs and the evaluation process for the projects.

It has been reported that thanks to “health communication”, a field getting widely popular in USA, the communication between the patient and the doctor, which is hard to establish many times, is getting much easier. The patients can have peace of mind deciding about their treatment methods and processes thanks to health communicators.

It has been stated that Turkish economy was going through an endurance test, and general elections in 2015, following the Presidential elections that will be held next week, will be subject to two major uncertainties. The experts stated that the answer to the question whether the economy management would be reshaped or not was looked for especially, and they indicated that  Turkish economy would be always on a knife edge due to political and external developments between the two elections.

Lecturers of Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Fashion and Textile Design will tell the story of Turkish silk that had to compete against Chinese silk for many years, in India. Prof. Dr. Elvan Özkavruk Adanır, Head of IUE Department of Fashion and Textile Design, Lecturers Seda Kuleli and Özge Dikkaya Göknur, will be talking about silkworm breeding and silk weaving in Turkey after the presentations they conducted in Thailand, Italy, and Alanya.

Paul Scherer, fashion designer of Desperate Housewives’ beautiful actress Eva Longoria, will share his expertise with the future fashion designers of Izmir University Economics (IUE) Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Fashion and Textile Design. In addition to Longoria, Paul Scherer also custom designs for American Singer Jennifer Rush, German Actresses Mirja du Mont and Sophie von Kessel, top model Heidi Klum, and German Singer Sarah Connor. Scherer will be teaching creative fashion to IUE students for a whole semester in 2014 – 2015 Academic Year.