The Physical Education and Sports Center has another great semester of healthy, fun activities scheduled for Fall 2024. The courses and programs being offered include badminton, group exercise programs, martial arts, pilates, squash, table tennis, tennis and yoga, etc. Registration for this year’s Fall Semester sports courses will take place[Read More…]
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“Sports As a Way of Life” Cycling Tour
The “Sports As a Way of Life” cycling tour will be held on September 29, at the East Sports Hall. Time: 11 a.m. Route: https://w3.bilkent.edu.tr/bilkent/physical-education-and-sports-center/sports-games/ Participation: All Bilkent students, academic and staff members, their families, and graduates and their families are eligible to take part in this activity. Participants can[Read More…]
Major International Grant to Study the Molecular Basis of Obesity
Prof. Tayfun Özçelik, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, received an international grant to investigate the involvement of brown adipose tissue in the development of obesity. The grant of $7 million is funded by one of the largest international philanthropic[Read More…]
Photography Club Year-end Exhibition
The Bilkent Photography Club hosted their “End of the Year Photo Exhibition” on May 16–17 at the Library Exhibition Hall. The exhibition showcased photographs taken by club members during the 2023–24 academic year. Visitors had the chance to see different photographic styles, such as landscape, street and portrait photography, and[Read More…]
2024 Responsible Artificial Intelligence Awards
MathWorks and FIGES sponsored the 2024 Responsible Artificial Intelligence Competition, which took place at Mithat Çoruh Auditorium on May 14. The 2024 event is a follow-up to the Fall 2023 RAI competition. Engineering students from Science, Technology and Society (GE 301) classes participated in the Spring 2024 RAI Competition. The jury members,[Read More…]
“Bilkent Sports Games” Basketball and Football Tournament Results
The spring semester basketball 5-on-5 and football 6-on-6 tournaments are over, and the results are in. Organized by the Physical Education and Sports Center as part of the “Bilkent Sports Games” program, a total of 17 teams and 175 participants participated in the basketball 5-on-5 tournament, while 76 teams and[Read More…]
ME 102 Students Design Vehicles for Term Project Competition
On Thursday, May 16, the Deprtment of Mechanical Engineering held the Term Project Competition for ME102 (Introduction to Systems Engineering) course. The competition involved 26 groups of freshman-year students who designed and developed vehicles with maximum dimensions of 180 mm x 180 mm x 150 mm. The objective was to[Read More…]
Orienteering Team Athlete Ranks Third in National Championship
The Bilkent Orienteering team participated in the Inter-university Orienteering Turkey Championship, organized by the Turkish University Sports Federation in Düzce on May 17–19. Two hundred and fifty athletes from 30 universities attended the event. Bilkent student Ayşa Asya Tuzcuoğulları (IAED) ranked third in the tournament and qualified to represent Turkey[Read More…]
Bilkent Track and Field Makes the Podium
The “Youth Games” Athletics competitions were held in METU on May 4–5 with the participation of Bilkent, METU, Hacettepe, Jandarma ve Sahil Güvenlik and TED Universities. The results Bilkent’s track and field team are listed here: 100m First place: Emre Günak (ARCH) 200m First place: Emre Günak (ARCH) 4x100m First[Read More…]
Bilkent History Graduate Symposium
The Bilkent History Graduate Symposium took place May 9–10, hosted by the Department of History and the Bilkent Historical Society. The two-day symposium brought together 37 graduate students from across Turkey. The symposium opened with a welcoming speech by Department Chair Mehmet Kalpaklı and a keynote talk by Jorge Lopèz Quiroga (Universidad[Read More…]