Prof. Tayfun Özçelik, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, received an international grant to investigate the involvement of brown adipose tissue in the development of obesity. The grant of $7 million is funded by one of the largest international philanthropic[Read More…]
The Bilkent Photography Club hosted their “End of the Year Photo Exhibition” on May 16–17 at the Library Exhibition Hall. The exhibition showcased photographs taken by club members during the 2023–24 academic year. Visitors had the chance to see different photographic styles, such as landscape, street and portrait photography, and[Read More…]
MathWorks and FIGES sponsored the 2024 Responsible Artificial Intelligence Competition, which took place at Mithat Çoruh Auditorium on May 14. The 2024 event is a follow-up to the Fall 2023 RAI competition. Engineering students from Science, Technology and Society (GE 301) classes participated in the Spring 2024 RAI Competition. The jury members,[Read More…]
The spring semester basketball 5-on-5 and football 6-on-6 tournaments are over, and the results are in. Organized by the Physical Education and Sports Center as part of the “Bilkent Sports Games” program, a total of 17 teams and 175 participants participated in the basketball 5-on-5 tournament, while 76 teams and[Read More…]
On Thursday, May 16, the Deprtment of Mechanical Engineering held the Term Project Competition for ME102 (Introduction to Systems Engineering) course. The competition involved 26 groups of freshman-year students who designed and developed vehicles with maximum dimensions of 180 mm x 180 mm x 150 mm. The objective was to[Read More…]
The Bilkent Orienteering team participated in the Inter-university Orienteering Turkey Championship, organized by the Turkish University Sports Federation in Düzce on May 17–19. Two hundred and fifty athletes from 30 universities attended the event. Bilkent student Ayşa Asya Tuzcuoğulları (IAED) ranked third in the tournament and qualified to represent Turkey[Read More…]
The “Youth Games” Athletics competitions were held in METU on May 4–5 with the participation of Bilkent, METU, Hacettepe, Jandarma ve Sahil Güvenlik and TED Universities. The results Bilkent’s track and field team are listed here: 100m First place: Emre Günak (ARCH) 200m First place: Emre Günak (ARCH) 4x100m First[Read More…]
The Bilkent History Graduate Symposium took place May 9–10, hosted by the Department of History and the Bilkent Historical Society. The two-day symposium brought together 37 graduate students from across Turkey. The symposium opened with a welcoming speech by Department Chair Mehmet Kalpaklı and a keynote talk by Jorge Lopèz Quiroga (Universidad[Read More…]
On May 8, 2024, the first Library Lunchtime Lecture of the semester took place in the Library Art Gallery. Professor Sandrine Bergès from the Department of Philosophy delivered a thought-provoking talk titled, “The Dos and Don’ts of Writing about Women in the History of Political Philosophy.” With this lecture, Prof.[Read More…]
The university is pleased to announce the recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards for the 2023–24 academic year. Dr. Yiğit Acar, Prof. Ergin Atalar, Assoc. Prof. Ali Javili and Asst. Prof. Burçin Kısacıkoğlu were chosen for demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities and for contributing to students’ academic and intellectual development. Please[Read More…]
