By İrem Naz Duymuş (AMER/III) & Eda Emekoğlu (AMER/III) nazduymus@ug.bilkent.edu.tr eda.emekoglu@ug.bilkent.edu.tr Holly jolly Christmas is awakening, my dear friends—certain songs are defrosting, decorations are being pulled from dusty basements and students are heading back home. Of course, there is us, the lovely Bilkenters who remain far from our homes for[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Türker Özsarı was appointed as Chair of the Department of Mathematics.
Aykut Koç, faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was appointed as associate professor. Onur Tokel, faculty member in the Department of Physics, was appointed as associate professor.
The 20th Ayva Cup Basketball Tournament will be held on December 10–12. At this annual event, men and women’s basketball teams from area universities including Başkent, Bilkent and Hacettepe compete for the Ayva Cup trophy. As usual, the tournament will take place on the Bilkent campus, in the Main Sports[Read More…]
The traditional bazaar, organized by Bilkent University UNICEF volunteers, opened on December 8 and will run until December 14, 2025. The bazaar will be open everyday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Main Campus in building no. 49. New and secondhand souvenirs, clothes, household items, toys and books will[Read More…]
Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) hosted the third national gathering of Türkiye’s zebrafish research community on November 29. The upcoming Zebrafish Workshop will bring together scientists who conduct research using the zebrafish model organism. Supported by the Zebrafish Research Association, this special event aims to strengthen knowledge exchange,[Read More…]
Financing Agreements in a Changing World,” a program held annually in memory of Prof. Rona Serozan as part of the conference series organized by the Rona Serozan Comparative Law Research Foundation, took place on November 28 at Bilkent.The event began with opening remarks by Attorney Fuat Topdemir, President of the[Read More…]
Teachers’ Day is celebrated every year to recognize the invaluable contributions of teachers and to highlight their role in shaping future generations. In this context, the Faculty of Education organized a Teachers’ Day event on November 28. The opening remarks were delivered by Prof. Alipaşa Ayas, Dean of the Faculty[Read More…]
BY EHSAN SHAREEF (CTIS/II) Name: Sakurako Ishiguro Department: MBG/III Exchange Country of Origin: Japan University: National Taiwan University What were your first impressions about Türkiye?When I landed in İstanbul from Tokyo, the first thing that hit me was the language—everything was in Turkish, and it suddenly felt very real that[Read More…]
On November 25, 2025, a workshop titled “Creating a New Discourse in Response to Hate Speech Against Foreigners” was organized in collaboration between the IGAM (İltica ve Göç araştırmaları Merkezi), Research Centre on Asylum and Migration and Bilkent University. The event was hosted by Bilkent University’s Faculty of Fine Arts,[Read More…]
