On Monday, February 5 and Tuesday, February 6, the Psychological Counseling and Development Center and the Teaching and Learning Support Center hosted the third annual Bilkent Well-Being Days. This year’s theme was “Hope and Search for Meaning.” On Monday, February 5, Dr. Tufan Kıymaz gave a talk on the philosophy[Read More…]
Established in 2018, the Audit and Consulting Club (ACC) Bilkent is affiliated with the Turkish Internal Audit Institute. Its main aim in organizing and hosting events is to be inclusive of and provide opportunities for Bilkent students as well as for students from all over Turkey. ACC Bilkent’s signature event,[Read More…]
The 34th Graduate Research Conference, organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EE) and the IEEE Student Branch, took place on Thursday, January 25 in the lecture halls on the ground floor of the EE building. Bilkent EE graduate students described their state-of-the-art research projects in oral and[Read More…]
A new group of international exchange students has arrived for the spring semester. This semester Bilkent University is hosting 64 exchange students from 11 countries. Bilkent welcomed the students with an orientation program held by the Office of International Students and Exchange Programs. Sessions included an introduction to the campus[Read More…]
The Media Literacy and Disinformation Conference, which will focus on the issue of disinformation in the media, will be held on February 7 at C-Block Auditorium. The conference, hosted by the European Union Delegation to Türkiye in cooperation with Bilkent University, will bring together experts, fact-checkers, journalists, academics, digital platform[Read More…]
On January 10, the Department of Architecture hosted an international student workshop on developing circular solutions for the post-earthquake redevelopment of Hatay. The workshop was based on the #CircularCityChallenge framework, developed by Özlemnur Ataol (University of Groningen) for her ongoing research project on collaborative planning. Workshop facilitators included Job Schoren[Read More…]
In a collaborative effort spearheaded by the Horizon Europe Project CULTURATI, funded by the European Commission with a budget of 3.1 million euros, Dr. Eda Gürel, project coordinator, and Arzu Sibel İkinci, Director of Training from the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, led a workshop on January 16. The[Read More…]
On December 18, students from the Science Technology and Society (STS) class participated in the Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) competition on Zoom. STS is a class for engineering students at Bilkent University. In the fall of 2023, STS students consulted researchers and innovators working in artificial intelligence on their responsible[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. Three students, Yaman Paksoy (MATH/PhD), Yusuf Nar (MATH/IV) and Uzay Çetin (MATH/IV), received this year’s Orhan Alisbah Fellowships[Read More…]
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, the Department of Graphic Design organized a workshop titled “New Faces for This Century” Analogue Collage: Book Jacket Design Exhibition. The creative results of the workshop are on exhibit at the Library Art Gallery until December 25. The exhibition displays[Read More…]
