BY MAHİR HASSAN MİAN (ECON/I) Name: Hafiz Muhammad Shakir Department: Physics Country of Origin: Pakistan What do you like best about Turkey?I like the Islamic culture, the system and the quality of education, but most importantly I appreciate the weather. Are there any similarities between Turkey and your home country?In[Read More…]
Dr. Funda Şenova Tunalı, lecturer and Vice Chair of the Department of Communication and Design and Department of Graphic Design alumnus, passed away on Sunday, April 30, 2023. As a beloved member of the Bilkent family, Dr. Şenova Tunalı will be fondly remembered and greatly missed. We extend heartfelt condolences[Read More…]
On Saturday, May 6, nearly 200 runners, joggers and walkers were ready at the starting line near the East Campus Sports Hall. They included Bilkenters of all ages as well as friends and guests. The 3.5 km route took the competitors from East Campus to Main Campus and finished at[Read More…]
“Hack to the Future,” a coding competition organized by Vakıfbank, was held on Friday, April 28, at Vakıfbank’s headquarters in İstanbul. While many teams, with themes from social responsibility and sustainability to digital banking user experience and design and new-generation customer communication to innovative products and services, participated in the[Read More…]
Alper Çankaya, a 2017 graduate of the Department of Performing Arts, won the “Best Actor” award at the 42nd İstanbul Film Festival National Competition for his performance in Fikret Reyhan’s film, “Glass Curtain.” The festival, which took place in İstanbul April 7 – 18, was organized by the Istanbul Foundation[Read More…]
It’s time to take out the rackets as the “Bilkent Sports Games’’ Table Tennis Tournaments are about to begin. All students are welcome to participate in this activity. Everyone is encouraged to get in the game and be the next “Bilkent Sports Games” Table Tennis Champion. Dates and Categories:May 9:[Read More…]
BY FATMA GİZEM TAŞLIÇAY gizem.taslicay@ug.bilkent.edu.tr As we grow up, the meaning of happiness and our search for it gets more complicated. There comes a time when we feel completely lost in the world as we look for life’s meaning. I don’t know if there can be a scientific formula for[Read More…]
Mechanical Engineering students Alihan Bakır, Doğa Özbek, Amirali Abazari, Mustafa Uğur, Burak Arslan and Alperen Özzeybek joined the sixth IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023) in April. This annual event, which this year took place in Singapore, is one of the world!s leading conferences on soft robotics and[Read More…]
“Emotions in the Ottoman Empire: Politics, Society and Family in the Early Modern Era,” a new book by Dr. Nil Tekgül of the Department of History, is one of the first monograph-length studies to analyze emotions in the political, social and familial ties of the early modern Ottoman society. Published[Read More…]
Bilkent University’s 25th Career Fair, organized by the Career and Alumni Office, will kick off soon. The fair, which will be held May 10 and 11, will give Bilkent students and graduates a chance to learn more about job opportunities and recruitment policies in sectors such as Defence & Space,[Read More…]
