Indonesia has rich traditional fabrics such as batik and lurik from Yogyakarta or gringsing and endek from Bali. Along with the traditional woven fabrics, there are modernized fabric manufacturers that produced printed batik and linen. It allows faster production process compared with traditional woven fabrics. To keep people interest on traditional woven fabrics, a team of UNY students designed the Eco Culture Fashion which gave a new feel to traditional weaving that woven fabrics do not have in general.

Personal hygiene is the first step to support a healthy life style. To ensure better application for personal hygiene, it is important for parents or the community to set the example. For student with mental deficiency, maintaining personal hygiene can be challenging. For this reason, UNY students developed a Personal Hygiene Smart Box as a medium for personal hygiene learning.

Novi Syaifatun Kamala and Intania Betari Miranda created a tool called Smart Fish House (SFH). According to Novi, Smart Fish House uses the principle of a wall trombe, in which there is a narrow room filled with air in the form of glass. "The principle works is that the outer surface will be heated by sunlight, then the light is slowly moved into a narrow room," Novi said. Then the heat in the room will be connected.

Yogyakarta State University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Yogyakarta Palace at Royal Ambarrukmo, on Tuesday March 5. This activity took place at the international symposium of Javanese culture and the Kraton Yogyakarta manuscript. The signing of the memorandum of understanding was carried out by the King of Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X and Rector of UNY, Sutrisna Wibawa.

The Faculty of Engineering UNY welcomed the Robotics Team and Garuda UNY Team in the Hall of Faculty of Engineering on 7 May 2019. Both teams achieved valuable result in each event they participated in, namely the UNY Garuda Team won 2nd place in the Urban Concept Category and broke the Asia and World record in terms of distance at the 2019 Shell Eco-marathon Asia in Sepang, Malaysia while the UNY Robotics team became General Champion at the Indonesia 2019 Regional Robot Contest 3 in Purwokerto.

dr. M.L.A.M. Maarten Dolk from the Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Netherlands, gave lectures to all students of the UNY Mathematics Education Masters Program on 29 to 30 April 2019. The lecture was conducted in the form of team teaching together with Mathematics lecturers Model, Ariyadi Wijaya, Ph.D. At the event, Dr. Maarten outlines the rules of Realistics Mathematics Education completed with very inspiring examples. Maarten proposed a "Meter" to measure the amount of PAM water used by customers.

Banana trees are very familiar with the lives of Indonesian people. Almost all parts of this tree can be used, ranging from fruit, leaves to stems. On the other hand, banana trees can only bear fruit once so the banana trees that have been fruiting are then cut down or left to die on their own. In fact, banana humps contain anthraquinone which can be used as a substitute for Minoxidil in synthetic hair tonics. The availability of abundant and unused raw materials inspires UNY students to make hair tonic from banana hump waste as a powerful natural hair care solution.

All countries have the same goal, namely progress and prosperity which is only achieved if the nation always increases the added value that can be achieved by using and mastering technology. Without technology, we cannot provide good added value. Our basic technology is education because education will be the base to build our future. As stated by Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla as the keynote speaker in the national seminar of the UNY Alumni Association in the Main Session Room, Saturday (4/5).

Students from UNY majoring in Mathematics Education won the silver and bronze award in International Invention and Innovative Competition (InIIC Series 1/2019) held at Malacca, 27 April 2019.

For three consecutive days, Teater Triyasa performed the drama “Orkes Madun” by Arifin C. Noer at UNY Performance Hall started from 24 to 26 april 2019. Unlike common performances that is set as pentalogy, Teater Triyasa has summarized the script without reducing the story essence.