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…]
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ş. Barış Özçelik of the Faculty of Law has been selected as the first self-nominated expert from Türkiye by the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) for the period of 2024–2027. The GPAI, the secretariat of which is undertaken by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development[Read More…]
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), the largest human genetics and genomics organization in the world, has selected Dean of the Faculty of Science Prof. Tayfun Özçelik, and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics as “Thought Leader.” Previous recipients of this prestigious distinction include “Genomics England,” “European Joint[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Serkan Belkaya of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics was awarded the TÜSEB (Health Institutes of Türkiye) Incentive Award based on his work in the fields of human genetics, rare diseases and molecular medicine. The TÜSEB awards were presented by the Minister of Health, Dr. Fahrettin Koca,[Read More…]
Prof. M. Selim Aktürk has been named a 2023 fellow of INFORMS, the largest association for decision and data sciences. As one of the most prestigious honors in the operations research (OR) profession, INFORMS annually recognizes fellows for their outstanding lifetime accomplishments and contributions to operations research and analytics. The[Read More…]
“Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy” is a new book coauthored by Assoc. Prof. Özgür Özdamar, chair of the Department of International Relations, and Dr. Sercan Canbolat, Department of International Relations 2014 MA graduate. Published by Cambridge University Press, the book explores the[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Serdar Güner of the Department of International Relations recently published “Art and IR Theory: Visual Semiotic Games” with Springer Press, Mathematics in Mind Series. The book presents a game theoretic analysis of communication among IR theorists. It uses visual semiotics and structural abstract paintings of Mark Rothko and[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Daniel Johnson, chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature, recently published “Making the Early Modern Metropolis: Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia” with the University of Virginia Press. The book is a social and cultural history of colonial Philadelphia, the most dynamic city in the early[Read More…]
Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) is shaping the future of technology through cutting-edge R&D and product development efforts by UNAM’s innovation team, focusing on the advancement of next-generation active and passive fibers, along with innovative combiners. Bilkent University UNAM, which possesses the sole optical fiber preform production infrastructure[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Erdinç Tatar of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and UNAM has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC). Dr. Tatar will receive €1,650,000 over the next five years for his project, “Towards no-drift sensors with on-chip self-calibration (0-drift).” Dr. Tatar aims to achieve a[Read More…]
