The results of the TÜBİTAK BİDEB 2247-A National Outstanding Researchers Program 2023 application have been announced. This program, which has garnered significant attention nationwide, aims to support projects that contain goals for breakthrough developments, address critical gaps in various fields and hold the potential for important discoveries. It also provides[Read More…]
Research
New Book on Synthetic Biology for Cancer Therapies
Dr. Urartu Özgür Safak Şeker and his graduate students Nazlıcan Tunç, Damla Albayrak, Senem Şen, Recep Erdem Ahan, Ahet Hınçer, Aslı Semirci, Ece Avcı, Melis Karaca, Merve Yavuz, Doğuş Akboğa, Mehmet Emin Bakar, Gozeel Shadid have published a new book titled “Synthetic Biology for Therapeutics: Engineering Cells for Living Drugs.”[Read More…]
Prof. Ömer Dağ Joins Editorial Advisory Board of Royal Society of Chemistry Journal
Prof. Ömer Dağ of the Department of Chemistry has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions, a prestigious international scientific research journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He has been chosen for this post along with other distinguished inorganic chemists across[Read More…]
Turkish Association of Architects in Private Practice Awards IAED Instructor
On October 4, the Modern Turkish Architecture Illustrated (Çizgilerle Modern Türkiye Mimarlığı) graphic novel and animated film series was awarded the Press Prize by the Turkish Association of Architects in Private Practice (TürkSMD) as part of the 16th Architecture Awards. The works, coauthored by Cem Dedekargınoğlu, instructor in the Department[Read More…]
Nomination for Mnemonic Data Sculpture
“Call for Life,” a mnemonic data sculpture by Asst. Prof. Efe Alpay of the Department of Graphic Design, has had a very significant recognition from The Lumen Prize & Studios. The project has been nominated as one of 65 finalists from among 2000 submissions, a finalist in the Lumen Prize[Read More…]
New Book by Sam Hirst
Oxford University Press has published “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939,” a monograph by Asst. Prof. Sam Hirst of the Department of International Relations. Drawing on extensive archival research conducted in multiple countries, the book presents a novel interpretation of international relations in the[Read More…]
Recent Publication by Pınar Bilgin
Prof. Pınar Bilgin, of the Departments of International Relations and Political Science and Public Administration, has released a new book coauthored with Karen Smith from the University of Leiden. “Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR,” was published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book asks what it means to think[Read More…]
Dr. Ülgüt Joins Distinguished Advisory Board
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched a new journal dedicated to electrochemistry, ACS Electrochemistry. Assoc. Prof. Burak Ülgüt of the Department of Chemistry has been appointed as a member of the inaugural Editorial Advisory Board, joining distinguished electrochemists across the globe (https://pubs.acs.org/page/aeclc7/editors.html). According to Editor-in-Chief Prof. Patrick Unwin, the[Read More…]
Dr. Özçelik Awarded Jean Monnet Chair
Assoc. Prof. Gülüm Özçelik, Faculty of Law, has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair on the Legal Aspects of Migration Management in the European Union and in Türkiye. With its teaching, research and dissemination activities, the chair aims to promote academic discussion on the legal aspects of migration and international[Read More…]
Bilkent Team Achieves Unprecedented Nanostructuring Inside Silicon
A groundbreaking study published in “Nature Communications” unveils a method for laser nanofabrication directly within silicon, with significant implications for the fields of nanophotonics, silicon photonics and 3D electronic-photonic integrated systems. The research, led by Asst. Prof. Onur Tokel from the Department of Physics and UNAM – National Nanotechnology Research[Read More…]