Welcome Summer Festival will take place on June 17–18. The Welcome Summer Festival concert will feature the Turkish rock singer Fatma Turgut. The concert will take place at the Odeon on Sunday, June 18 at 9 p.m. The regular ticket price is 400TL per person. Students will be able to buy one[Read More…]
Campus & Community
Memorial Ceremony for John O’Dwyer at the Bilkent Concert Hall
Asst. Prof. John O’Dwyer passed away on Tuesday May 9, 2023, after 31 years of service at Bilkent University. Dr. O’Dwyer, a member of the Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, and the Coordinator of İ.D.V. Private Bilkent Schools, served as Director of the English Language Preparatory Program from[Read More…]
FADA Academic Staff Exhibition Opens at Contemporary Art Center
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture has organized a new exhibition by FADA academic staff.The exhibition opened last week on Wednesday, May 17, at the Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center. The exhibition consists of the contemporary art and design works of faculty members as well as thatof graduate students working[Read More…]
EE Student Wins Award at Teknofest Agriculture Technologies Competition
A team of students from Bilkent University, Boğaziçi University and Koç University has won one of the four top awards at the Teknofest Agriculture Technologies Competition, where they competed against 5,283 other projects. The team, named Agricure, created the project “Application of Blockchain Technology in the Food Supply Chain,” which[Read More…]
Law Students Win Court Competition
Faculty of Law students Melek Akbulut, Gül Su Bulut, Birge Mine Gümüş and Yağız Barış Özel won first prize in the oral rounds of the Prof. Dr. Yaşar Karayalçın Second Moot Court Competition, which was organized by the European Law Students Association (ELSA) Ankara. In addition, the petitions that these[Read More…]
Welcome Summer Festival
In place of Spring Festival, which has been cancelled this year, the university, in consultation with the Student Council, will organize a “Welcome Summer Festival” on June 17–18 to celebrate the end of the spring semester and the start of summer. Details of the festival will be available in the[Read More…]
Integrated Approaches to the Political Geography of Southern Anatolia, 1650-550 BCE Conference
The Department of Archaeology, in collaboration with the British Institute at Ankara, recently hosted a hybrid conference titled “Integrated Approaches to the Political Geography of Southern Anatolia, 1650‒550 BCE.” The event was organized by Dr. N. İlgi Gerçek and Dr. Michele Massa along with the help of a dedicated team[Read More…]
Sounding Off – The Next Generation of Women in Sound
The Department of Communication and Design (COMD), with support from the United States Embassy in Turkey, hosted the Sounding Off 2023 event at Bilkent on May 6 and 7 in the COMD media production studio. The purpose of the event was to motivate and provide guidance to women who have[Read More…]
2023 Graduation Ball
The 2023 Graduation Ball will be held on June 20 at the Bilkent Hotel’s Sakarya Ballroom at 8 p.m. The ball will feature Ankara Express Orchestra and DJ Levent Özkazanç. The ticket price is 970 TL. per person. Those who want to attend the ball can fill out the application[Read More…]
TDP Holds Children’s Festival
Toplumsal Duyarlılık Projeleri (TDP) organized their annual Children’s Festival in person for the first time in three years on May 6, at the East Campus grass field. More than 250 children from TDP’s eight target groups as well as earthquake victims participated in the event. TDP had many activities for[Read More…]