On December 17, 2022, the Department of Architecture and its alumni met to celebrate the department’s 10th anniversary. The celebration took place at Serbest Mimarlar Derneği, Ankara, and was attended by previous and current faculty and ARCH graduates. The celebration was part of ARCH’s series of events involving its alumni,[Read More…]
Merve Demirel Derebaşoğlu and Ömer Faruk Akbal, two recent PhD graduates from the Department of Economics, attained second and third place respectively in the 2022 Best PhD Dissertation competition held by the Turkish Economic Association (Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu). Dr. Demirel Derebaşoğlu’s thesis, “Three Essays on the Effects of Education Policies[Read More…]
This weekend, the Psychological Counseling and Development Center and the Teaching and Learning Support Center will be hosting the second “Bilkent Well-Being Days.” Open to all Bilkent students, the event will take place on Saturday, February 11. The topics to be discussed during the event’s sessions will be “Self-Development and[Read More…]
Nefise Abalı, a 2011 MA graduate of the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, has published her new book, “Havva’nın Düşü.” Ms. Abalı is currently working as a lecturer in the Turkish Unit at Bilkent. A collection of short stories, the book focuses on a woman’s account of growing up[Read More…]
The earthquake in Kahramanmaraş and the surrounding area on Monday, February 6, has deeply affected everyone. In response to this devastating event, the Bilkent University Social Awareness Projects (TDP) together with Radyo Bilkent are organizing an aid drive to support emergency operations in the region and to reach out to[Read More…]
The Department of Mathematics has a long tradition of honoring outstanding undergraduate and graduate mathematics students through the annual Orhan Alisbah Mathematics Awards, supported by the generous contributions of the Alisbah family. Two students, Metin Can Aydemir (MATH/IV) and Reidi Haderi (MATH/PhD), received this year’s Orhan Alisbah Fellowships at a[Read More…]
The third “Zero Waste Summit and Award Ceremony,” organized by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, was held at the Haliç Congress Center in İstanbul on December 23. The Zero Waste Project aims to control waste within the framework of sustainable development principles and to leave a clean[Read More…]
The Department of Architecture is presenting an exhibition of student works that explores the potential of the metaverse. Digitally produced projects from the spring 2022 iteration of the course ARCH 440-Special Topics in Architecture are being exhibited in Spatial.Io. The projects were designed by six groups of students, led by[Read More…]
According to the Technology Development Zones 2021 Performance Index areas provided by the Ministry of Industry and Technology, Bilkent Cyberpark has become the most successful technopark in Turkey. The results of the Performance Index for 2021 were announced at the R&D and Design Centers and Technology Development Zones Summit. Bilkent’s[Read More…]
On December 10, the 16th Ankara Startup Summit took place at Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO), attracting more than 500 attendees. The event, organized by the Bilkent Young Entrepreneurs Society in partnership with Bilkent Cyberpark, brought founders of aspiring startups together with representatives of the entrepreneurial world. The summit culminated[Read More…]
