Designed to take place outdoors, the Step Challenge is open to all Bilkent students and challenges everyone to take at least 10,000 steps on the days they have chosen to make walking or running their exercise activity. Participants will need to record the number of steps they take using the health app[Read More…]
BY EHSAN SHAREEF (CTIS/II) Name: Gaini Mukhambetkazy Department: Architecture / IV Country of Origin: Kazakhstan What were your first impressions about Türkiye? At first, I thought about how chaotic and contrasting it is—the people, the environment and just the energy of space. It even scared me for a while. However, over time this chaos[Read More…]
Prof. Ece Göztepe Çelebi was appointed as Director of the Center for Human Rights Studies and Research.
The Inter-university Cross Country Türkiye Championship, organized by the Türkiye University Sports Federation, was held in Kuşadası on January 21. A total of 118 athletes from 34 universities participated in the event. The Bilkent men’s team finished ninth in Türkiye.
The 28th Career Fair, organized by the Career and Alumni Office, will take place between February 17 and February 18, 2026, at the Main Campus Sports Hall. The Career Fair will bring Bilkent students and graduates together with professionals from approximately 70 companies operating in various sectors, such as Telecommunication, Information Technologies, FMCG, Oil[Read More…]
An updated third edition of “Ekonomik Kamu Hukuku Dersleri” (Economic Public Law Lectures), by Prof. Turgut Tan, Faculty of Law, was published by Turhan Kitabevi in October 2025. Prof. Tan’s book is a comprehensive academic work in the field of economic public law that addresses the legal frameworks governing economic activities and state intervention in markets. The book[Read More…]
Dr. N. Cihan Kayaçetin of the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design and Prof. Yasemin Afacan, Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, led the first co-creation workshop for the Çankaya Bademlidere Park in the scope of the Urban-CoLLaR project. The workshop took place in December, at the Doğan Taşdelen Contemporary Arts Centre, Ankara. There was wide participation from[Read More…]
A team of students from the Department of Economics has achieved significant international success by securing first place in the Middle East & Africa region for the 2025 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge. Competing under the team name “Bilkent ECON,” the team ranked first among regional participants after generating a relative profit of USD $183,917[Read More…]
Every year, in honor of the late METU professor Mustafa Parlar, the Middle East Technical University Parlar Foundation recognizes the achievements of scientists and scholars from a variety of fields for their exceptional research productivity. This year, the following five Bilkent faculty members were recipients of METU Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Foundation Awards: Asst. Prof. Ayşegül Dündar Boral (Department of[Read More…]
Bilkent alumnus Assoc. Prof. Kamil Boratay Alıcı has been elected a full member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, in recognition of his contributions to optics and photonics research. Founded at Cornell University in 1886, Sigma Xi is one of the world’s most prestigious research honor societies, whose membership is granted by nomination only on[Read More…]
