The Career and Alumni Office invites third- and fourth-year students interested in exploring opportunities in the career space to participate in the 2024–25 Interview Adventure with Talent Hunters. In this program, participants will: – have their CV reviewed and checked by the Career and Alumni Office – receive feedback on[Read More…]
Campus & Community
Photography Club Year-end Exhibition
The Bilkent Photography Club hosted their “End of the Year Photo Exhibition” on May 16–17 at the Library Exhibition Hall. The exhibition showcased photographs taken by club members during the 2023–24 academic year. Visitors had the chance to see different photographic styles, such as landscape, street and portrait photography, and[Read More…]
2024 Responsible Artificial Intelligence Awards
MathWorks and FIGES sponsored the 2024 Responsible Artificial Intelligence Competition, which took place at Mithat Çoruh Auditorium on May 14. The 2024 event is a follow-up to the Fall 2023 RAI competition. Engineering students from Science, Technology and Society (GE 301) classes participated in the Spring 2024 RAI Competition. The jury members,[Read More…]
ME 102 Students Design Vehicles for Term Project Competition
On Thursday, May 16, the Deprtment of Mechanical Engineering held the Term Project Competition for ME102 (Introduction to Systems Engineering) course. The competition involved 26 groups of freshman-year students who designed and developed vehicles with maximum dimensions of 180 mm x 180 mm x 150 mm. The objective was to[Read More…]
Bilkent History Graduate Symposium
The Bilkent History Graduate Symposium took place May 9–10, hosted by the Department of History and the Bilkent Historical Society. The two-day symposium brought together 37 graduate students from across Turkey. The symposium opened with a welcoming speech by Department Chair Mehmet Kalpaklı and a keynote talk by Jorge Lopèz Quiroga (Universidad[Read More…]
Library Lunchtime Lecture Series
On May 8, 2024, the first Library Lunchtime Lecture of the semester took place in the Library Art Gallery. Professor Sandrine Bergès from the Department of Philosophy delivered a thought-provoking talk titled, “The Dos and Don’ts of Writing about Women in the History of Political Philosophy.” With this lecture, Prof.[Read More…]
Honoring Distinguished Teachers
The university is pleased to announce the recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards for the 2023–24 academic year. Dr. Yiğit Acar, Prof. Ergin Atalar, Assoc. Prof. Ali Javili and Asst. Prof. Burçin Kısacıkoğlu were chosen for demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities and for contributing to students’ academic and intellectual development. Please[Read More…]
CTIS Senior Projects Poster Presentations
On Wednesday, May 8, the Department of Information Systems and Technologies (CTIS) held its annual Senior Projects Demo Day and Poster Presentations at East Campus, C Building. Sixteen teams of fourth-year students displayed their posters, videos and products. CTIS advisory board members, instructors, students, alumni and visitors from the industry[Read More…]
Bilkentpreneurs Challenge 2024
The entrepreneurship competition “Bilkentpreneurs Challenge 2024” was held on May 10 at the Bilkent Cyberpark. The competition was organized by the Faculty of Business Administration in collaboration with the Beba Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundation and with logistical support from Bilkent Cyberpark. Open to all Bilkent students, each team was required[Read More…]
Service Award and New Exhibition Piece by Efe Alpay
Asst. Prof. Efe Alpay, of the Department of Graphic Design, exhibited his mnemonic data sculpture, “A Giant Leap,” alongside the art of 13 other leading multidisciplinary artists from Türkiye. The exhibition, which took place April 13–21, was part of the larger “Culture Road” project (organized by the Turkish Ministry of[Read More…]