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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
On May 8, 2024, the first Library Lunchtime Lecture of the semester took place in the Library Art Gallery. Professor Sandrine Bergès from the Department of Philosophy delivered a thought-provoking talk titled, “The Dos and Don’ts of Writing about Women in the History of Political Philosophy.” With this lecture, Prof.[Read More…]
The university is pleased to announce the recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards for the 2023–24 academic year. Dr. Yiğit Acar, Prof. Ergin Atalar, Assoc. Prof. Ali Javili and Asst. Prof. Burçin Kısacıkoğlu were chosen for demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities and for contributing to students’ academic and intellectual development. Please[Read More…]
The Bilkent University women’s squash team finished in first place and the men’s squash team came second in the recent inter-university squash championship. Approximately 100 athletes from 10 universities participated in this event, which was organized by the Turkish University Sports Federation.
On Wednesday, May 8, the Department of Information Systems and Technologies (CTIS) held its annual Senior Projects Demo Day and Poster Presentations at East Campus, C Building. Sixteen teams of fourth-year students displayed their posters, videos and products. CTIS advisory board members, instructors, students, alumni and visitors from the industry[Read More…]
