Can Güven, a team leader at the National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM), passed away on Saturday, April 4, 2026. We extend our condolences to the Güven family and the Bilkent community. To convey condolences to Can Güven’s family: http://taziye.bilkent.edu.tr
The “Sports As a Way of Life” swim, fit and step challenge events and the “Bilkent Sports Games” athletics sprint competition and table tennis tournament are now complete. Swim and fit challenge participants exercised regularly for four weeks, committing to sports activities at least two and at most five times[Read More…]
The university is pleased to announce the recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards for the 2024–25 academic year. Miri Besken, Ayşe Collins, Çiğdem Fıçıcı, Haldun Özaktaş and Firdevs Ulus were chosen for demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities and for contributing to students’ academic and intellectual development. Please read statements from the[Read More…]
The second stage of the 20th Angora Cup Inter-university Sports Festival, organized by the Department of Physical Education and Sports, was held at Bilkent University. Approximately 700 students from a number of universities, including Ankara, Atılım, Başkent, Bilkent, Gazi, Hacettepe, METU, TEDU, Jandarma and SGA, participated in this special event.[Read More…]
Üniversitemizin değerli hocalarıyla gerçekleştirdiğimiz eğlenceli ‘Hayatımda Hiç’ oyununun devamında, hocalarımızın samimi ve şaşırtıcı itiraflarını dinlemeye devam ediyoruz.
Üniversitemizin değerli hocalarıyla bir araya geldik ve onlarla eğlenceli bir ‘Hayatımda Hiç’ oyunu oynadık! Hocalarımızın samimi ve şaşırtıcı itiraflarıyla dolu bu videoda, onları biraz daha yakından tanıma fırsatı bulacaksınız.
The Artificial Intelligence Society (Bilkent Yapay Zeka Topluluğu), in collaboration with Global Turks AI and sponsored by Türkiye İş Bankası AI Startup Factory, hosted an alumni panel on December 5. The event featured 13 distinguished Bilkent graduates who work at leading companies such as OpenAI, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Meta,[Read More…]
MathWorks and FIGES sponsored the 2024 Responsible Artificial Intelligence Competition, which took place at Mithat Çoruh Auditorium on May 14. The 2024 event is a follow-up to the Fall 2023 RAI competition. Engineering students from Science, Technology and Society (GE 301) classes participated in the Spring 2024 RAI Competition. The jury members,[Read More…]
On Thursday, May 16, the Deprtment of Mechanical Engineering held the Term Project Competition for ME102 (Introduction to Systems Engineering) course. The competition involved 26 groups of freshman-year students who designed and developed vehicles with maximum dimensions of 180 mm x 180 mm x 150 mm. The objective was to[Read More…]
BY EKİNSU POLAT (AMER/II) Assoc. Prof. Onur Özcan conducts research at the intersection of mechanical engineering and robotics and creates miniature robots inspired by nature. He received his bachelor’s degree (in 2007) from Sabancı University Mechatronics Engineering program and his master’s (in 2010) and doctorate degrees (in 2012) from Carnegie[Read More…]
