Tourism and Hotel Management 2023 graduate Efe Doğrul and 2021 graduate Furkan Başaran were selected for Hilton’s Management and Development Program (MDP) 2023. The Management Development Program, geared toward giving new graduates the opportunity to specialize in different areas of hotel management, is designed to prepare best-in-class graduating seniors and[Read More…]
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GRA Graduate’s Art Work on Display in New York
Department of Graphic Design 2006 graduate and part time instructor in the same departmentDr. Efe Alpay has had his work “Call for Life” selected as one of the 15 works to be exhibited at the Bang & Olufsen flagship store in Soho Manhattan. It was selected from more than 500[Read More…]
Department of Performing Arts Graduate Awarded Best Actor
Alper Çankaya, a 2017 graduate of the Department of Performing Arts, won the “Best Actor” award at the 42nd İstanbul Film Festival National Competition for his performance in Fikret Reyhan’s film, “Glass Curtain.” The festival, which took place in İstanbul April 7 – 18, was organized by the Istanbul Foundation[Read More…]
IE Graduate Listed among Influential Business Leaders
Aylin Korkmaz (IE’99) was recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Houston by the digital media platform Women We Admire for her exemplary achievements in technology consulting. Ms. Korkmaz is a partner at Ernst & Young in the US and has more than 20 years of experience[Read More…]
Bilkent Alumna Named Among UK’s Top Executives
Burçin Ressamoğlu (IR’94), CEO of Sodexo UK Advantage & Reward Services, has been listed among the 100 inspiring women leaders by Yahoo Finance and Involve UK and ranked ninth in the Heroes Women Role Model List due to her activities promoting gender equality and cultural diversity in the business world.[Read More…]
IR Graduate Receives Gill Jacot-Guillarmod Award
Dr. Gözde Doğan Yalçıner (IR ’01) received the US-based Lois Roth Foundation’s Gill Jacot-Guillarmod honorable mention award for her diplomatic achievements. She helped link the Turkish government, NGOs and academic institutions to advance cultural heritage preservation, a mission that Turkey and the US share. The diplomatic bridge she worked to[Read More…]
Bilkent Graduate’s Company Ranked First Among Software and IT Services
Bilkent graduate Mert Gür (CS ’17) founded the mobile gaming company Loop Games in 2019. Loop Games is the developer of Match 3D, Pathereum and Match Tile 3D. Loop Games, whose team includes seven entrepreneurial Bilkent graduates, Mert Gür (CS ’17), Burak Eserol (CS ’16), Selin Coşan (CS ’16), Cem[Read More…]
Bilkent Alumna Named UMD Department Chair
Professor Şennur Ulukuş, a graduate of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, has been appointed as the new chair of the Clark School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. She received her BS and MS degrees from Bilkent in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and[Read More…]
THM Graduate Named in Top Ten Hotel Managers
“Hotelier Middle East” has unveiled the 100 best GMs in the Middle East hotel industry in the publication’s General Manager Power 100 list, 2022. Department of Tourism and Hotel Management ’98 graduate Hakan Özel was selected as one of the top 10 most powerful hotel managers in the UAE. Mr.[Read More…]
International Recognition for COMD Graduate’s Short Film
The short animation film “Fish Out of Water” by Nur Özkaya (COMD ’21) has been listed on the long international watch list for Short Film Animation Oscar 2023 by Animation Magazine in the US. Although this is not a final nomination, it recognizes Özkaya’s achievement through qualifying awards and national[Read More…]