Sunday, November 10 9:05 a.m. at the Bilkent Atatürk Monument Moment of Silence and the National Anthem Monday, November 11 1:30 p.m. at Mithat Çoruh Auditorium Mini Concert Bilkent Youth Quartet * HIST 200 Project Presentation “The Development of Archaeology in Türkiye during Atatürk and the Early Years of the[Read More…]
BY MAHİR HASSAN MİAN (ECON/II) Name: Ghulam Ahmed Department: Computer Science Country of Origin: Pakistan What were your first impressions about Türkiye? The “çay” consumption made me feel right at home. What do you like best about Bilkent and Türkiye? The cats that roam freely, looking for treats. Are there[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Emin Karagözoğlu was appointed Associate Provost. We wish him every success in this position.
Prof. Ömer Dağ of the Department of Chemistry has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions, a prestigious international scientific research journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He has been chosen for this post along with other distinguished inorganic chemists across[Read More…]
BY PELİN SU UZUNCAGİL (AMER IV) Asst. Prof. Aslı Menevşe received her PhD degree from the Department of the History of Art & Visual Studies at Cornell University in 2021. Her primary area of investigation is the intersection of politics and aesthetics in the public space, with a double emphases[Read More…]
On October 12, the Bilkent University Board of Trustees organized the “Sharing in Education and Classroom Teaching” workshop. Bilkent University started accepting students into its Classroom Teaching Program, under the Faculty of Education’s Department of Basic Education, following the Higher Education Council’s approval on May 16, 2024. The workshop, held[Read More…]
The final step in the Student Council election process was completed on October 15 with the selection of the council’s president and the elections for the vacant executive and audit committee positions. The new Student Council president is Eylül Yolcu from the Department of Performing Arts. The vice president is[Read More…]
Prof. Daron Acemoğlu has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the formation of institutions and their impact on prosperity. Prof. Acemoğlu shares the prize, announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, with Prof. Simon Johnson and Prof. James Robinson. Prof. Acemoğlu, who is[Read More…]
Ms. Ruth Griffiths from Aston University International Office visited Bilkent on October 10. Together with Bilkent University Office of International Students and Exchange Programs, Ms. Griffiths met with related faculty officials, and a presentation session on the Erasmus+ Student Exchange Program between Bilkent and Aston Universities was organized. Many students[Read More…]
BY EKİNSU POLAT (AMER/III) Daniel Johnson, chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature, is a historian of early America and the early modern Atlantic world. He received his PhD in History from Binghamton University–SUNY in 2011. Dr. Johnson’s research explores the relationship between social change and cultural formation[Read More…]
