{"id":18963,"date":"2023-09-27T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/?page_id=18963"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:10:59","slug":"introduction-speech","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/?page_id=18963&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Introduction Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uralakbulut.com.tr\/?page_id=25&amp;lang=tr\"><strong>Prof. Dr. Ural AKBULUT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Akbulut.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Akbulut.png 288w, https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Akbulut-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>How Can We Raise Our Universities in World Rankings?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. Ural Akbulut serves as the President of Middle East Technical<br \/>University (METU) Informatics Institute URAP. He completed his undergraduate<br \/>and graduate education at METU Department of Chemistry between 1968-1972. He<br \/>completed his doctorate at the University of South Florida Chemistry Department<br \/>in 1973. He started his academic career as a research assistant at METU in 1975<br \/>and took on various academic and administrative positions at Ankara University<br \/>for a while. He currently works as a professor at METU.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. Ural Akbulut served as dean and vice rector at Ankara University;<br \/>general secretary, vice rector and rector at METU.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Ural Akbulut, who deals with portrait art as well as being an academician<br \/>and administrator, has received T\u00dcB\u0130TAK Incentive Award, Benz Alumni Award<br \/>(USF&amp;BENZ), Turkish Chemical Society Service Award, Italian Knight Order,<br \/>ANG\u0130AD-Educator of the Year Award, Lions International Achievement Award and<br \/>Japan-Hyogo State&#8217;s International Prize. In addition, he has undertaken more<br \/>than a hundred academic studies and many projects that are included in<br \/>reputable indexes. His scientific studies have received over 1000 citations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Ural AKBULUT How Can We Raise Our Universities in World Rankings? Prof. Dr. Ural Akbulut serves as the President of Middle East TechnicalUniversity (METU) Informatics Institute URAP. He completed his undergraduateand graduate education at METU Department of Chemistry between 1968-1972. Hecompleted his doctorate &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18963","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18966,"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18963\/revisions\/18966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sempozyum2023.karatekin.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}