February 25, 2026, marks 16 years since the passing of our founder, Prof. İhsan Doğramacı. On this day, as always, we remember Prof. Doğramacı with deep respect, profound gratitude and great affection. To commemorate Prof. Doğramacı, a special concert will be held on Wednesday, February 25, at 8 p.m. at the Bilkent Concert Hall. The event will feature conductor Gürer Aykal and[Read More…]
The Bilkent University Chess Team successfully represented the university and Türkiye in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall 2025, organized in cooperation with Chess.com and PlayVS, as the only university from Türkiye to participate in the competition. The competition, held across 25 different divisions with universities from around the world, concluded after seven weeks of league-format matches, followed by playoff rounds. All matches[Read More…]
Bilkent Nature Sports Community teams represented the university with strong performances across different branches in competitions organized by the Turkish University Sports Federation on February 13–15. The Inter-university Ice Climbing Championships were held in Erzurum. Competing in the ice climbing branch for the first time, the team—composed of students from the Bilkent Nature Sports Community—achieved[Read More…]
By İrem Naz Duymuş (AMER/III) & Eda Emekoğlu (AMER/III) nazduymus@ug.bilkent.edu.tr eda.emekoglu@ug.bilkent.edu.tr The Winter Olympics have concluded and so has the first month of Bilkent! I don’t know which was more tough though, the athletes of athletes competing for their lives and representing their states or Bilkent students getting up on time to attend classes. But here we are as champions, waiting for the next challenges to overcome… although as[Read More…]
Organized by TEDxBilkent, Bilkent Talks will once again bring together members of the Bilkent University community for a day of discussion and idea-sharing. The event will host speakers from diverse fields, including science, art, psychology, health, music and entrepreneurship. Through moderated conversations, participants will have the opportunity to engage with different perspectives and reflect on contemporary issues across[Read More…]
International Women’s Day Trekking As part of the International Women’s Day celebration, a “Sports As a Way of Life” trekking event will be organized on March 8 at 11 a.m. at Bilkent Lake. This special event aims to highlight the importance of women’s participation in sports and active living. All Bilkent students, academic and administrative staff[Read More…]
On February 17, THM 409 Tourism Law, led by Instructor Güneş Karamullaoğlu, hosted Onur Altınbıçak, a 2005 THM graduate. Bringing over two decades of perspective since his graduation, Altınbıçak provided students with a roadmap of how legal principles manifest in day-to-day hotel operations. The seminar moved beyond the idea of law as a mere set of[Read More…]
The Faculty of Law in collaboration with the Atatürk and Republican Era Research Center, marked the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Turkish Civil Code with a seminar titled “Turkish Civil Law Revolution,” on February 17, 2026, at the İhsan and Ayser Doğramacı Science, Culture and Art Center. Organized as part of the “100th[Read More…]
Bilkent University held the first event of its Science Café series on Saturday, February 21, at the Doğan Taşdelen Contemporary Arts Center, in collaboration with Çankaya Municipality. The talk, titled “Fostering a Culture of Creativity in Science,” was delivered by Prof. Tayfun Özçelik, Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. In his presentation, Prof. Özçelik reflected on[Read More…]
The student council mid-year assembly general meeting was held on Tuesday, February 17, to fill the recently vacated student council seats. Emre Kurt (PHIL) and Zeliha Hazal Oğuz were elected as new members of the executive board. New audit committee members are Hüseyin Ata Yılmaz (THM) and Sıla Erdem (POLS).
