Bilkent University hosted Prof. Thors Hans Hansson of Stockholm University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as a speaker for the 2023 İhsan Doğramacı Memorial Lecture. This year’s memorial lecture titled “Five Wonders of the Quantum World,” was held on Wednesday, November 15, at the İhsan and Ayser Doğramacı[Read More…]
Call for Life,” a project by Asst. Prof. Efe Alpay of the Department of Graphic Design, was selected from a pool of 172 entries, standing out among the top 10 at the IGA İstanbul Airport competition (IGART). Within the character of İstanbul Airport and Turkey’s geography and culture, the IGART[Read More…]
On Friday, November 17, Bilkent University Library hosted the PhilFest AI Art Exhibition, blending the worlds of art and artificial intelligence within the Library Art Gallery. The collection, comprising works centered around philosophical themes and created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), was curated from the Generative Artificial Intelligence[Read More…]
Réka Goedhart-Kedves and Elif Saf from Radboud University’s science faculty visited Bilkent University on November 9. Together with Bilkent’s office of International Students and Exchange Programs, Goedhart-Kedves and Saf presented a session on Radboud University and the Erasmus Student Mobility and Training. Students from the faculty of science showed great[Read More…]
To celebrate the 100th year of the Republic, Bilkent University’s Department of Architecture collaborated with Rahmi M. Koç Museum in an exhibition that critically analyzes and documents the expansion of Ankara as the capital of the Republic. The exhibition displays the works of graduate students from a course taught by[Read More…]
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, Ardan Özmenoğlu (LAUD ’02, MA GRA ’06), a worldwide contemporary artist, held a five-day workshop at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. The first of this impressive series is a 10×1.5 m photograph of Atatürk, created using Post-it notes. Although[Read More…]
Bilkent University is the first Turkish university to be accredited in the Healthy Campus program, an FISU initiative that continues to enhance the well-being of students and campus communities. Looking to reverse the trend of young adults compromising their health during their academic careers, the initiative covers most segments of[Read More…]
The Bilkent Photography Club organized an exhibition titled “Atatürk and Republic” in memory of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the 85th anniversary of his death. The exhibition, which took place November 14–16, was presented to the Bilkent Community with a mission to remember the values and ideals that Atatürk left to[Read More…]
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Department of Cultural and Natural Properties, recently published a book titled “World Heritage of Ankara UNESCO World Heritage Sites.” The aim of the book is to draw attention to buildings and sites in the capital that are or should be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. [Read More…]
The 2023 İhsan Doğramacı Memorial Lecture, “Five Wonders of the Quantum World,” will be held on Wednesday, November 15 at the İhsan and Ayser Doğramacı Science, Culture and Art Center. The lecture will be given by Prof. Thors Hans Hansson of Stockholm University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. [Read More…]
