Toplumsal Duyarlılık Projeleri (TDP) organized their annual Children’s Festival in person for the first time in three years on May 6, at the East Campus grass field. More than 250 children from TDP’s eight target groups as well as earthquake victims participated in the event. TDP had many activities for[Read More…]
Three early short plays written by Eugene O’Neill premiered on May 5 in the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts Theater Hall. Directed by Jason Hale, chair of the Department of Performing Arts, the production is being staged by the Department of Performing Arts students as a senior project. Performances[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Urartu Şeker from Bilkent University’s National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) has been awarded funding for his project, “Design of a Probiotic Bacterial Strain Producing Human Milk Oligosaccharide with a Synthetic Biology Approach for Functional Food Applications.” The project comes as a result of the 1003-Agricultural Research Joint Call,[Read More…]
Bilkent History Graduate Symposium was hosted on May 4–5 by the Department of History. The two-day symposium brought together 28 graduate students from Turkey, the UK, the US and Austria. The symposium opened with a welcoming speech by Department Chair Mehmet Kalpaklı and a keynote talk by Christoph K. Neumann[Read More…]
Bilkent Laboratory and International School (BLIS) inaugurated its Documentation Studio on May 3, marking the opening of the first such facility in Turkey. Documentation Studio is an innovative initiative that provides educators from pre-K to high school, as well as higher education faculty, with an open space to document and[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. John O’Dwyer, who served as the Director of the English Language Preparatory Program (1996-2015), a member of the Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences and Coordinator of İ.D.V. Private Bilkent Schools, passed away on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. As a long-time and beloved member of the Bilkent[Read More…]
