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…]
BY EKİNSU POLAT (AMER/II) Ezgi Sakman is a social psychologist with a diverse educational background and a strong focus on close relationships. Holding a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Cornell University since 2020, she earned her PhD in Social Psychology from Middle East Technical University in 2016 following an MS in[Read More…]
BY MAHİR HASSAN MİAN (ECON/II) Name: Malika Sarsenkulova Department: Management Country of Origin: Kazakhstan What were your first impressions about Türkiye? I first visited Turkey at the age of six, and it was an enchanting experience. As a young child, exploring the diverse landscapes, tasting the endless varieties of food[Read More…]
Bilkent’s annual Spring Festival will take place in the Main Campus Festival Area and at the Odeon from Friday, May 3 to Saturday, May 4. The schedule of events can be found at https://w3.bilkent.edu.tr/bilkent/spring-festival-2024/
Name: Osman Arda Efe Bulat Department: Economics How often do you exercise? I exercise three times a week. How has regular exercise affected your life? The quality of my life, especially my sleep quality, improved after I started exercising. What do you suggest to those who are just taking up[Read More…]
The “Sports as a Way of Life” Swim Challenge event is complete. Swim Challenge participants exercised regularly for four weeks. Participants committed to sports at least two and at most five times a week. The main aim of the challenge is to help students gain a healthy lifestyle and follow[Read More…]
This year will mark the 19th annual Angora Cup Inter-university Sports Festival. Organized by the Physical Education and Sports Center, the festival will take place April 26 – May 12. Approximately 750 students from a number of universities are expected to be on campus for this special event. The students,[Read More…]
Giray Başbuğ, a third-year student in the Department of Translation and Interpretation, has published “A Collection of Love Poetry From the English Renaissance,” translated into Turkish. Inspired by their eloquent poetics, the book features major poets of the period, including Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser and Samuel Daniel. It also grants[Read More…]
The Department of Performing Arts premiered a new play, “Wounds to the Face,” last week on April 17. The play, written by Howard Barker, is performed as a junior project production. Directed by Geoffrey Hyland, Emeritus Assoc. Prof. from Cape Town University, the play will be staged at the Bilkent[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…]
