Mr. Brwa Hasan Hussein is an academic staff at Department of Civil Engineering / faculty of Engineering (FENG) who has been awarded Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program of 2018. Indeed, the Fulbright program is designed to equip the scholars with knowledge and tools necessary to build the capacities of the universities in Iraq and to advance the education of future generation of Iraqis. The program lays the foundation for Iraqi scholars and their U.S hosts to develop long term institutional relationship and areas of cooperation that can be sustained over time.

Mr. Peshawa Jamal Muhammad Ali, head of Software Engineering Department, participated in a team called (Horizon) to secure a grant within exchange program alumni projects, in a competition “2017 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF)” which is amongst the “U.S. Department of State Grants Program “. The projected leaded and administrated by Dr. Shilan Ali, other team members of the project are from different sectors of Kurdistan region society. The project title was (Healing Women from Invisible Wounds of Terror). The sum of the grant is 24,930 US$ which covered the different costs of the project.

In a press realease the Columbia University’s Italian Academy announced a $1.15 million gift from the Sidney J. Weinberg Jr. Foundation for a vital project that will bring as many as 20 additional Fellows over the next 5 years to study architectural history and preservation. “This generous gift from the Weinberg Foundation—one of the largest donations since the founding of the Academy—permits us to pursue the understanding and conservation of architecture of all geographic areas and periods,” said David Freedberg, Director of the Italian Academy.

The 1st International Conference on Pure & Applied Science ICPAS 2018 was held on 23rd - 24th April, 2018 at the Presidency Building of Koya University, Koya, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, http://koyauniversity.org/node/155. The conference was supported by Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research in Erbil, Kurdistan Region-Iraq. The conference was the first that organized by Faculty of Science and Health at Koya University. With respect to registrations, 107 submitted papers registered from different Iraq and Kurdistan Region Universities and only 43 papers were accepted to be presented in the conference after peer review procedure by professional staff of Faculty of Science and Health http://conferences.koyauniversity.org/index.php/pas/2018/about/organizi…, in different fields. Attendees of 130 academics from Mosul, Kirkuk, Anbar and Baghdad Universities were registered. Over 35 delegates attended the conference from General Consulate of Japan, Ministries of High Education and Scientific Research, Health, Agriculture and Natural Resources. More than 212 staff member of Koya University registered and attended the conference.

As an Associate Researcher Fellow at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM Big Data Center, Professor Salah I. Yahya, with a research group from the UTM, Al-Mustansiriya University and University of Baghdad, published a new research article in the Volume 10(2018), Number 1 of the International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and its Applications (IJASCA). IJASCA is a peer-reviewed scientific journal indexed by SCOPUS.

The Presidency of Koya University is significantly commemorating the prominent figures of Koya and Kurdistan in general, and they want to demonstrate the true value and the texts as well as works of famous figures from the researchers’ perspective based on the scientific methods. Hence, the third conference on the well-known figures from Koya has been dedicated to the famous poet Dildar, who is the author of (Ay Raqeeb), which has been the national anthem of Kurdistan for more than half a century. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

Dear participants and honorable guests 

On behalf of the Koya University Presidency I whole-heartedly welcome you all. Koya University is excited about taking its essential role by holding its third scientific conference on the Koyan figures. I have personally mentioned in a number of occasions and some other settings that Koya University has a great responsibility for conducting research and reviving the performance, products and the characteristics of the prominent figures, scientists, scholars, artists and politicians of the area that Koya University located. 

Behar English Language Center (BELC) at Koya University is pleased to announce that its classrooms have been busy for the last three weeks with the students of the Religious High School in Koya. Those 25 students and 4 teachers are being engaged in a semi-intensive English program as the target population of a program that is generously funded by The American Embassy and kindly hosted by Koya University.

Just over a year has passed since SEED and Koya University opened the Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS) and we have made tremendous progress. We've had 24 service providers graduate from the Psychosocial Support Services (PSS) Training Program, empowered with new skills and the practical experience that resulted from receiving clinical supervision. We already have 27 participants enrolled for our next session, which began last week. We trained nine faculty members of Koya University on trauma psychology, supervision, and interactive teaching methods.

2018 International Conference on Pure and Applied Science (ICPAS 2018) is organized annually by the Faculty of Science and Health at Koya University on April 23rd and 24th 2018 with support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region-Iraq. the ICPAS 2018 has the doi: 10.14500/icpas2018. Start here to submit a paper to this conference: STEP ONE OF THE SUBMISSION PROCESS