Dr. Luca Zavagno, associate professor (joint appointee) in the Department of History and Archaeology, has been awarded the prestigious Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) Research Grant (worth $10,000) to help support his project, “Parnassos: An Anatolian pilgrimage town, its bishop (and its waters) in the transition from Late Antiquity to the[Read More…]
BY MAHİR HASSAN MİAN (ECON/II) Name: Nazihah Jokoo Department: Management Country of Origin: Mauritius What were your first impressions about Turkey? It was a new and different atmosphere with a culture unlike anything I’d experienced before. It was difficult to communicate because of the language barrier. What do you like[Read More…]
More than 80 people attended Radio Bilkent’s first general meeting of the spring semester, which was held in the EE Building. Nida Aktaş, general coordinator of Radio Bilkent, chaired the meeting. The main agenda items included details regarding the progress recorded by the 12 units, developments specific to each unit[Read More…]
The BILT 2023/24 Theater Text Auditions are organized by BILT (Bilkent International Laboratory Theater), a professional ensemble established within the Department of Performing Arts at Bilkent University that brings together theater lovers from Ankara with original works of theater every season. The ensemble, which aims to develop and stage new[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Bülent Batuman, chair of the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, is the co-editor of “The Urban Refugee: Space, Agency, and the New Urban Condition,” a book recently published by Intellect. Forced migration has become a hot topic of policy as well as scholarship in the recent[Read More…]
Dr. Çağrı İmamoğlu is an architect and environment-behavior researcher. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from METU Department of Architecture, and in 2002 he completed his PhD degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bilkent University. He attained[Read More…]
Held annually in February, the Iuris Agora Law Forum marks the culmination of a thought-provoking discourse on the legal landscape and serves as a cornerstone event for the legal community, offering a platform where luminaries from diverse legal domains convene to share insights, experiences and expertise. This year’s forum witnessed[Read More…]
Bilkent University lost Prof. Metin Heper, retired faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, on Saturday, February 24, 2024. Prof. Heper, who joined Bilkent University in 1988, served as the Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the Dean of the Faculty[Read More…]
The “Sports as a Way of Life” fitness challenge, held at the Dormitories, Main and East Sports Halls, will run between March 11 and April 7 and is open to all students. Participants are to work out at least two and at most five times per week. Participants can do,[Read More…]
The cardio week event, organized by the Physical Education and Sports Center, took place on February 19–25 with the participation of 28 people. Students who participated in at least two of the cardio and strength exercises, such as rowing, cycling and treadmill exercises, were awarded GE250/251 points.
