Twenty years (1992–2012) of intensive research at Kinet Höyük, conducted by now-retired Bilkent Archaeology faculty members Assoc. Prof. Marie-Henriette Gates and Dr. Charles Gates, has started to materialize in a series of books and monographs authored by core members of the excavation team and a multinational group of distinguished scholars.[Read More…]
Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center’s (UNAM) Dr. Gürkan Yeşilöz has been awarded support from the Health Institute of Turkey (TÜSEB) as part of the institute’s aim to foster the research, development and commercialization of cancer treatment products using domestic resources. Dr. Yeşilöz’s goal is to engineer and introduce an[Read More…]
Sandrine Bergès has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Global Professorship to carry out research in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York (UK). During her research leave from Bilkent she will be working on a new project that focuses on the abolitionist debates of the early modern[Read More…]
In a significant development, researchers from Bilkent University have achieved a major breakthrough in the detection of microplastic pollution, an emerging environmental threat. The team, led by Assoc. Prof. Selim Hanay, has developed a proof-of-concept device that can accurately classify and differentiate microplastic particles from other microscopic objects. The research,[Read More…]
Dr. Luca Zavagno, associate professor (joint appointee) in the Department of History and Archaeology, has been awarded the prestigious Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) Research Grant (worth $10,000) to help support his project, “Parnassos: An Anatolian pilgrimage town, its bishop (and its waters) in the transition from Late Antiquity to the[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Bülent Batuman, chair of the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, is the co-editor of “The Urban Refugee: Space, Agency, and the New Urban Condition,” a book recently published by Intellect. Forced migration has become a hot topic of policy as well as scholarship in the recent[Read More…]
Bilkent University has announced that in 2023, a total of 29 projects were selected to receive funding from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) under its 1001 program. The 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program supports projects that generate new information or solve technological problems.[Read More…]
Under the Horizon Europe 2023 call, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Prof. Yasemin Afacan, as the coordinator of the Bilkent University host organization, has been awarded a two-year ERA European Research Executive Agency (REA) Fellowship to work with Meghánn Catherine Ward (University of Cumbria, UK) as a postdoctoral fellow. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions[Read More…]
Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM), which proudly possesses the sole optical fiber preform production infrastructure and fiber drawing tower in Turkey, is making revolutionary advancements in the healthcare sector following its contributions to the national defense industry. The research conducted at UNAM demonstrates that the fibers are of[Read More…]
Prof. Ergin Atalar, of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM), was awarded one of the Elginkan Foundation 2023 Technology Awards for his project, “Development of RF Transmit Array for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanners.” “Elginkan Foundation Turkish Culture Research and Technology Awards,” launched[Read More…]
