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…]
Prof. Tolga Çukur was appointed as director of the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM), effective September 18, 2023. Prof. Tolga Çukur took over the position from Prof. Ergin Atalar. Prof. Mehmet Selim Aktürk was appointed as acting dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, effective September 18, 2023. Prof.[Read More…]
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…]
Multimedia News by COMD students Misra Nur Çakılmaz and Sena Eğri
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…]
The first week of the 18th Angora Cup Interuniversities Sports Festival, organized by the Physical Education and Sports Center, is now complete. Approximately 300 students from a number of universities, including Atılım, Başkent, Bilkent, Boğaziçi, Çankaya, Hacettepe, METU, İTÜ, TEDU, Kadir Has, Pamukkale, Yeditepe and Mehmet Akif Ersoy, participated in[Read More…]
BY ELİF BÜŞRA KARAZİYAN (MBG/II) Zehra Ekiz, a senior psychology student, and Mehmet Batuhan Candar, a senior electrical and electronics engineering student, received TÜBİTAK funding for their research “Machine Learning Analysis of Reducing Türkiye’s Energy Dependency Using Renewable Resources Based on Iceland’s Energy Model.” We asked them about the process[Read More…]
April 3rd is the birthday of Bilkent University’s founder, Prof. İhsan Doğramacı. Each year, the university community celebrates the occasion as Bilkent Day, with special events including the annual Bilkent Day Conference and a commemorative concert. All of the day’s events took place in the Bilkent Concert Hall. The Bilkent[Read More…]
As part of its “Sports as a Way of Life” program, the Physical Education and Sports Center will host a rowing machine exercise event on Thursday, March 23. All Bilkent students may participate in the activity, which features a form of cardio and strength exercise that everyone can do. Participants[Read More…]
Ayşe Çelikkol, faculty member in the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, was promoted to Associate Professor position on January 5, 2023.
