Dr. Fahmi F. Mohammadsharif at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Health, Koya University Published a new resaerch articlle entitled "A new insight into the temperature induced molecular aggregations in tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) metals." The research article has been published in the Journal of Materials Research and Technology which indexed by Clarivate Analytics with IF=3.327 and SCOPUS with Level Q1. The article authors are: Fahmi F. Muhammadsharif, Suhairul Hashim, Khaulah Sulaiman, G. Baldacchini.

The results achived by this reseach article opened a new route of fabricating highly emissive thin films of amorphous nanostructure, which are specifically important for organic light emitting diode (OLED) based displays.

A research group including a researcher from Koya University, Dr. Halgurd Sarhang Maghdid, published a study entitled "A Novel AI-enabled Framework to Diagnose Coronavirus COVID 19 using Smartphone Embedded Sensors: Design Study" in the arXiv archive. The research group proposed a new framework to detect coronavirus disease COVID-19 using onboard smartphone sensors. The study authors are: Halgurd S. Maghdid, Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, Ali Safaa Sadiq, Kevin Curran, Khaled Rabie

A Group of researchers from Kermanshah University of Technology (KUT), Koya University and the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) published a research paper entitled “A novel microstrip diplexer with compact size and high isolation for GSM applications” in the AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications. The paper Presents a novel high-performance microstrip diplexer to operate at 0.78 GHz and 1.85 GHz for GSM applications. Professor Salah I. Yahya is among the researchers, from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications is indexed by Clarivate Analytics with IF=2.853 and indexed by SCOPUS with level Q2.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, all the Universities and institutions in Iraq and the whole world are closed now. The Study may be pursued in April, as the KRG and KOU announced, but we should have our plan B if the situation will be worse and the Universities will remain closed till June or even later. KOU started the online e-lecturing program to be in touch with their students and the students can take their lectures, assignements online while they are staying at home.

A Group of researchers; Hayder H, Abbas, Fakhri H. Ibraheem, Ahmad A. Maaroof from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University published a new original research article entitled  "Pollution Problems in Koya City due to Private Electrical Generators" in the Volume 7, Number 2 (2019) issue of ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University. 

The 2020 International Conference on Resources Management, November 18-19, 202o in Koya, Koya University is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the Resources Management. This conference is a prestigious event, organized to provide an international platform for academicians, researchers, managers, industrial participants and students to share their research findings with global experts.

A Group of Researchers from KOU Participated the 6^th International Conference on Engineering (IEC 2020) Conference by Presenting a Scientific Paper. The paper has been presented by Dr. Galawezh B. Bapir, from Faculty of Engineering at Koya University. The  IEC 2020 has been held in Feb. 26-27, 2020 by Tishk International University and Erbil Polytechnic University and technically sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Iraq section.

A Group of researchers; Dr. Yazen A. Khaleel and Prof. Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, and Dr. Rahel Kh. Ibrahim from the Department of Civil Engineering at KOU published a new original research article entitled  "Skin Temperature Distribution over Human Head Due to Handheld Mobile Phone Call using Thermal Imaging Camera" in the Volume 7, Number 2 (2019) issue of ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University. 
ARO is published by Koya University with e-ISSN: 2307-549X, p-ISSN: 2410-9355, and DOI: 10.14500/2307-549X. ARO is a journal of research articles, review articles, and letters to editor. ARO is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original works in areas of Science and Engineering. ARO has been indexed by DOAJ and got DOAJ Seal. ARO has been accepted for indexing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), a new edition of Web of Science™ - Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) since Feb 2016.

Today, 4^th of March 2020, Koya University announced the preliminary results of the postgraduate candidates. The postgraduate programs at Koya Universitiy insclude;

1. M.Sc. program,
2. Higher Diploma program, and
3. Ph.D. Program.

Koya University would like to congratulate all applicants who got accepted to pursuing their postgraduate studies at Koya University. 

Dr. Shaymaa Fadhel Jassim Alkubaissy, a teaching staff at the Department of Architectural Enginerring, Koya University, has been selected as a member of the international scientific board of The 4th edition of the International Symposium “New Metropolitan Perspectives.” The Symposium will take place in Reggio Calabria (Italy) from 26 to 28 May, 2020. As a member of the international scientific board, Dr. Shaymaa will chair the thematic session TS-26. Urban Resilience. The symposium is jointly promoted by the LaborEst and the CLUDsLab Laboratories of the PAU Department, Università Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in partnership with a qualified international network of academic institutions and scientific societies.