Asst. Prof. Urartu Şeker from Bilkent University’s National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) won the 2023 Sedat Simavi Foundation Health Sciences Award for his work “Engineered Bacteria with Genetic Circuits Accumulating Nanomagnets as Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents.” The Sedat Simavi Award was established in 1977 by the Turkish Journalists Society.[Read More…]
Bilkent University hosted Prof. Thors Hans Hansson of Stockholm University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as a speaker for the 2023 İhsan Doğramacı Memorial Lecture. This year’s memorial lecture titled “Five Wonders of the Quantum World,” was held on Wednesday, November 15, at the İhsan and Ayser Doğramacı[Read More…]
Call for Life,” a project by Asst. Prof. Efe Alpay of the Department of Graphic Design, was selected from a pool of 172 entries, standing out among the top 10 at the IGA İstanbul Airport competition (IGART). Within the character of İstanbul Airport and Turkey’s geography and culture, the IGART[Read More…]
On Friday, November 17, Bilkent University Library hosted the PhilFest AI Art Exhibition, blending the worlds of art and artificial intelligence within the Library Art Gallery. The collection, comprising works centered around philosophical themes and created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), was curated from the Generative Artificial Intelligence[Read More…]
Réka Goedhart-Kedves and Elif Saf from Radboud University’s science faculty visited Bilkent University on November 9. Together with Bilkent’s office of International Students and Exchange Programs, Goedhart-Kedves and Saf presented a session on Radboud University and the Erasmus Student Mobility and Training. Students from the faculty of science showed great[Read More…]
To celebrate the 100th year of the Republic, Bilkent University’s Department of Architecture collaborated with Rahmi M. Koç Museum in an exhibition that critically analyzes and documents the expansion of Ankara as the capital of the Republic. The exhibition displays the works of graduate students from a course taught by[Read More…]
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, Ardan Özmenoğlu (LAUD ’02, MA GRA ’06), a worldwide contemporary artist, held a five-day workshop at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. The first of this impressive series is a 10×1.5 m photograph of Atatürk, created using Post-it notes. Although[Read More…]
Bilkent University is the first Turkish university to be accredited in the Healthy Campus program, an FISU initiative that continues to enhance the well-being of students and campus communities. Looking to reverse the trend of young adults compromising their health during their academic careers, the initiative covers most segments of[Read More…]
Andreas Treske is an author, filmmaker, and media artist. In 1986, he graduated from the University of Siegen in German Literature and Political Science and in 1992, from the Munich Film Academy. From 1992–1998, he was part of the creative art staff at HFF Munich, accomplishing extensive research on applied[Read More…]
Name: Zeynep Taşevli Department: CS How often do you exercise? I exercise once or twice a week. How has regular exercise affected your life? Taking part in a sports course has made me more active and less stressed. What do you suggest to those who are just taking up a[Read More…]
