Nine universities participated in the Regional League Inter-Universities tennis competition that took place in Ankara on May 30 – June 3. The Bilkent men’s team won overall and earned a place in the Super League. Team members: Ege Ertaş (ME), Emre Uyan (IE), Burak Ateşkan (LAW), Eren Özdilkural (IE), Mert Cemri[Read More…]
Author: Bilkent News Editorial
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…]
THM Alumni Selected for Hilton’s MDP
Tourism and Hotel Management 2023 graduate Efe Doğrul and 2021 graduate Furkan Başaran were selected for Hilton’s Management and Development Program (MDP) 2023. The Management Development Program, geared toward giving new graduates the opportunity to specialize in different areas of hotel management, is designed to prepare best-in-class graduating seniors and[Read More…]
“Animal Flow” Movement System Event
Multimedia News by COMD students Misra Nur Çakılmaz and Sena Eğri
“Republic is Virtue” Concert
Multimedia News by COMD students Ece Cicioğlu and İsa Yusuf Orak
Ninth NanoDay Held at UNAM
The NanoDay, organized by the Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM), has once again brought together renowned figures from the global scientific community. This year NanoDay took place on June 2. The event created the opportunity to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange between its over 250 participants, who included[Read More…]
Students Produce Three PandeVITA Video Talks in the Broadcast Studio of COMD
For many years, the Department of Communication and Design has offered COMD335 “Science Writing and Journalism” (coordinator and instructor: Lutz Peschke) and COMD409 “Advanced Broadcast Studio” (coordinator: Andreas Treske, instructor: Yusuf Akçura). In collaboration with these courses, this spring students produced three Video Talks on behalf of the Horizon 2020[Read More…]
“Bilkent Sports Games” Basketball 5-on-5 and 3-on-3 Tournament Results
The spring semester basketball 5-on-5 and 3-on-3 tournaments are over, and the results are in. Organized by the Physical Education and Sports Center as part of the “Bilkent Sports Games” program, the tournaments attracted 35 teams and 290 participants. All of the teams represented one of the eight Sports As[Read More…]