The Bilkent CYBERPARK ULUS Startup Office opened on Monday, October 13, in the Historical Ulus İş Hanı. A joint initiative of the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Bilkent University and Bilkent CYBERPARK, the office was inaugurated with a ribbon-cutting by Industry and Technology Minister of Türkiye Mehmet Fatih Kacır. Speakers at the[Read More…]
The final step in the Student Council elections was completed on October 12 with the selection of the council’s president and the elections for the vacant executive and audit committee positions. The new president is Doğa Vuslat Avcı (MAN/II), and the vice president is Sıla Erdem (POLS/III). The executive board[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Emel Özdora of the Department of Communication and Design gave a Science Café (Bilim Kafe) talk titled “From CSR to ESG: Sustainability and the Transformation of Green Industrialization in Türkiye in Light of COP31” on Wednesday, October 14, in the C-Block Auditorium. The talk was part of the[Read More…]
In 2016, the Faculty of Engineering launched a program, led by the Academic Student Coordination Unit (ASCU), that connects incoming engineering students with volunteer upperclass students through contact groups. The volunteers welcome the newcomers, help them settle in at Bilkent and answer their questions. This year the tradition continued. The[Read More…]
The Department of Communication and Design (COMD) and the Neuroscience Program will hold “IMMERSION+ | Sound. Mind. Space.” on Thursday, October 15, from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at FADA, FFB-08. The event grows out of a two-year collaboration between the two units on sound, perception, immersive environments and their[Read More…]
Ufuk Balaman was appointed as Chair of the Department of Educational Sciences. Fulya Türker was appointed as Acting Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Burcu Ayşen Ürgen was appointed as Assistant Director of the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM).
Bilkent students, alumni and faculty earned several awards at the 33rd International Adana Altın Koza (Golden Boll) Film Festival. Nehir Üstündağ (COMD ’26), now a master’s student in the Media and Visual Studies program, won the Best Experimental Film award in the National Student Films Competition for “Everything I Saw[Read More…]
On Friday, October 2, Bilkent University and Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), an addendum on a student exchange program and an Erasmus+ exchange agreement at the İhsan and Ayser Doğramacı Science, Culture and Arts Center. The cooperation covers five fields: law, political science, information and communication, economics[Read More…]
The Career and Alumni Office is inviting third- and fourth-year students to take part in its 2026–27 Interview Adventure with Talent Hunters program. Through the program, students have their CV reviewed by the Career and Alumni Office, receive feedback to improve it, get tips on preparing for interviews, meet company[Read More…]
Prof. Halil İnalcık, founder of the Department of History, was commemorated on the 10th anniversary of his passing at a HICOS seminar held on Thursday, October 1. Prof. Özer Ergenç gave a talk titled “Öğrencisi Özer Ergenç’in Anlatımıyla Halil İnalcık (“Halil İnalcık as Told by His Student Özer Ergenç”) in[Read More…]
