The Çiğdem and Hossein Dabir Award for Excellence in Short Fiction is an annual award that celebrates Bilkent students who demonstrate outstanding creativity, originality and skill in short fiction writing. The 2025 award ceremony was held on Friday, February 6, at the İhsan and Ayser Doğramacı Science, Culture and Arts[Read More…]
By İrem Naz Duymuş (AMER/III) & Eda Emekoğlu (AMER/III) nazduymus@ug.bilkent.edu.tr eda.emekoglu@ug.bilkent.edu.tr Dearest Bilkent readers, a long time has passed. Lives have changed, courses have been added and dropped based on momentary decisions. There are little campus crushes to decide on the entirety of the semester in just a week. For those who have been hit by Eros’ arrow, a certain day[Read More…]
As part of their senior graduation project, fourth-year students from the Department of Communication and Design organized a social responsibility-focused event in collaboration with LÖSEV (Foundation for Children with Leukemia) on World Cancer Day, February 4. A stand was set up on campus where LÖSEV products such as calendars, handmade[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Jonathan Williams from the Department of English Language and Literature has published a monograph with Bloomsbury Academic. The book, “Melancholic Life: Literary Expression and the Experience of History from Burton to Keats,” traces the long historical transformation of melancholia from a medical condition into a distinctly political mode[Read More…]
The Student Council Mid-year Elections will be held on February 16. Voting will take place between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at B Building, Room B-306 (Main Campus) and N Building, Room AB-18 (East Campus). Elections will take place in the following departments, along with their candidates: PHYS: İbrahim Akram, Hacı Berkay Buz GRA: Yağmur Topuz POLS: Sıla Erdem, Onur Erdal Kutun [Read More…]
Bilkent Music Days is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Launched in a festival format with a focus on chamber music, the event has, over the past two years, expanded into a season-long program spanning the academic year. Throughout the season, Department of Music alumni, Bilkent-based academic musicians, selected outstanding students, as[Read More…]
Between January 26 and February 5, the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design (IAED) hosted Karen Stone, adjunct associate professor at the Pratt Institute, and Münire Kırmacı, visiting instructor at the Pratt Institute (New York) and IAED ’01 graduate. Stone and Kırmacı held an intensive workshop with senior students within the scope of[Read More…]
Organized by the Department of Architecture, a seminar titled “Disaster Urbanization: Findings from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes” was held on February 6 at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. During the seminar, Assoc. Prof. Bülent Batuman, chair of the Department of Architecture, presented the preliminary findings of his ongoing research examining the relationship between urbanization[Read More…]
An introductory training session on Raqball was organized at Bilkent as part of the “Raqball Development Project” by EUSA in collaboration with eight universities across Europe. 12 students attended the event, held on February 7, where they had the opportunity to learn about and try Raqball.
Name: Ceyda Güzel Department: ECON How often do you exercise? I exercise four to five times a week. How has regular exercise affected your life? Regular exercise helps me manage my time more effectively and increases my motivation by developing a stronger sense of responsibility. And, of course, it helps me feel[Read More…]
