Author: Bilkent News Editorial

Academic Administrative Appointments

Prof. Hüseyin Boyacı was appointed as chair of the Neuroscience Program and director of Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center, effective July 1, 2023. Asst. Prof. Armağan Ateşkan was appointed as coordinator of the Bilkent Teaching and Learning Support Center, effective June 15, 2023. Dr. Ateşkan took over the position from[Read More…]

Faculty Promotions

Tolga Çukur, faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was promoted to professor position on July 28, 2023. Kemal Yıldız, faculty member in the Department of Economics, was promoted to Associate Professor position on May 22, 2023. Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, faculty member in the Department of Communication and[Read More…]

Honoring Distinguished Teachers

The university is pleased to announce the recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year. Özlem Karsu, Erdal Onar, Cem Tekin and Funda Şenova Tunalı were chosen for demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities and for contributing to students’ academic and intellectual development. Please see 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award[Read More…]

Bilkent Graduate’s Breakthrough Discovery

Department of Physics 2018 graduate Ş. Furkan Öztürk was among the scientists who made a series of breakthrough discoveries on the origin of life on Earth: Transition of inorganic molecules into organic matter. “It is a real breakthrough.” said origin of life chemist and Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, “Homochirality is[Read More…]

Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir’s Textbook Translated into Chinese

The book “Applied Nanophotonics” coauthored by Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir, Director of the National Nanotechnology Research Center and Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology and his colleague Prof. Sergey Gaponenko—was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. After its initial release by Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest and[Read More…]

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