The Department of Communication and Design (COMD) and the Neuroscience Program will hold “IMMERSION+ | Sound. Mind. Space.” on Thursday, October 15, from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at FADA, FFB-08. The event grows out of a two-year collaboration between the two units on sound, perception, immersive environments and their[Read More…]
The step challenge, designed to take place outdoors, is open to all students. Participants walk or run and aim to take at least 10,000 steps on each day they choose to exercise. Participants record their step count using the health app on their smartphone and send a picture of the[Read More…]
The 19th Turkish Kendo Championship was held on October 3–4 at the Dormitories Sports Hall, bringing together more than 90 athletes from kendo clubs in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Antalya and other cities. It opened on Friday, October 2, with a welcome practice that included visiting instructors from abroad, who took[Read More…]
Ufuk Balaman was appointed as Chair of the Department of Educational Sciences. Fulya Türker was appointed as Acting Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Burcu Ayşen Ürgen was appointed as Assistant Director of the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM).
TEDxBilkent 2026 will take place on October 24 at the Bilkent Odeon under the theme “Kıvılcım” (Spark). Organized by the TEDx Bilkent club, the event will bring together talks on ideas, experiences and perspectives from a range of fields. Speakers include Nükhet Duru, Yusuf Dikeç, Somer Sivrioğlu, Özgür Günaydın, Namık[Read More…]
James Kinkaid, Department of Philosophy, has published a new study of Martin Heidegger’s early phenomenology and its complex relationship to the phenomenological project of Edmund Husserl. The book offers an opinionated introduction to Heidegger’s phenomenology, framing its central themes and ambitions in terms of Heidegger’s debts to, and departures from,[Read More…]
Bilkent students, alumni and faculty earned several awards at the 33rd International Adana Altın Koza (Golden Boll) Film Festival. Nehir Üstündağ (COMD ’26), now a master’s student in the Media and Visual Studies program, won the Best Experimental Film award in the National Student Films Competition for “Everything I Saw[Read More…]
Republic Run to Raise Funds for Scholarships The 2026 Republic Run will take place on Sunday, October 25, at 11 a.m. It is open to all students, faculty and staff and their families, as well as alumni and their families. Donations collected through the run fund scholarships for high-achieving students[Read More…]
National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) director, chair of the Materials Science and Nanotechnology Graduate Program and faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Department of Physics, Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir, was recently honored with the National Innovation Award under the Special Awards category of the[Read More…]
The Dormitories Sports Hall will host a seven-session chakra series from October 16 to December 4, exploring the seven chakras through yoga philosophy, chakra symbolism, movement, breathwork and meditation. Each session focuses on one chakra: Muladhara (root) on October 16, Svadhisthana (sacral) on October 23, Manipura (solar plexus) on November[Read More…]
