According to information from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Bilkent student Tuba Alkan (IAED/I) went to Hatay on Monday, February 6, with the ANDA (Anda Kardeşe Vefa Derneği) Association teams as soon as she received news of the earthquake. Tuba told Bilkent News that she and her[Read More…]
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GRA Student Exhibition Opens at CerModern
The Department of Graphic Design has organized a new exhibition by third-year students, “Experimental Typography Movie Posters.” The exhibition opened on February 2 at CerModern’s Hub Art Space and will be on display until February 12. The works in the exhibit resulted from an experimental typography project that focused on[Read More…]
Best Practices Award From Zero Waste Summit
The third “Zero Waste Summit and Award Ceremony,” organized by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, was held at the Haliç Congress Center in İstanbul on December 23. The Zero Waste Project aims to control waste within the framework of sustainable development principles and to leave a clean[Read More…]
Department of Architecture Exhibits Student Works in Metaverse
The Department of Architecture is presenting an exhibition of student works that explores the potential of the metaverse. Digitally produced projects from the spring 2022 iteration of the course ARCH 440-Special Topics in Architecture are being exhibited in Spatial.Io. The projects were designed by six groups of students, led by[Read More…]
Economics Students Win Award
Alperen Turan and Yusuf Selim Tekbaş, students of the Department of Economics, won second place in the Kuveyt Türk Ideathon on “What Kind of Savings, Investment, Payment and Financing Solutions Can We Offer as the Bank of Young People?” with their Pay-Kart project. Pay-Kart aims to enable young people to[Read More…]
Bilkent Students Make Their Mark at Ankara Startup Summit
On December 10, the 16th Ankara Startup Summit took place at Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO), attracting more than 500 attendees. The event, organized by the Bilkent Young Entrepreneurs Society in partnership with Bilkent Cyberpark, brought founders of aspiring startups together with representatives of the entrepreneurial world. The summit culminated[Read More…]
CS Students Present Their Smart-Seat Project in Paris
As the Smart-Seat project team, Computer Engineering second-year students Halil Tataroğlu, Elif Şen and Muti Kara were finalists in the Hackathon competition. This regional competition, which includes Turkey and the Middle East, was organized around the theme “How can railways be more resilient against epidemics?” The Hackathon is an event[Read More…]
Second Prize to UNAM MSN Master’s Program Student
Ahmet Hınçer, a master’s student in the UNAM MSN Program under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Urartu Şeker, was awarded second prize for his presentation, “Synthetic 5’ UTR Designs for Controlled Antigen Production in mRNA Vaccines” at the Vaccine Science Association’s 4th International Vaccine and Science Congress. Prof. Dr. Aykut[Read More…]
Raising Awareness for Special Education Needs
On December 3, as part of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, TDP (Toplumsal Duyarlılık Projeleri/Social Awareness Projects) collaborated with İDF Bilkent High School and Special Olympics Turkey to invite 150 children with mental disabilities from special education schools in Ankara to visit Bilkent University. In this social awareness project[Read More…]
THEA Students and Guests From ALEF University Explore Ancient Greek Drama
Last week, the Department of Performing Arts organized its “Ancient Drama Week” and hosted five students from the ALEF University of Iran as well as Professor Mirali Fotouhi and Delaram Habib Piran. Throughout the week, the Iranian theatre students joined second-year Bilkent Performing Arts students in attending two master workshops.[Read More…]