Three early short plays written by Eugene O’Neill premiered on May 5 in the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts Theater Hall. Directed by Jason Hale, chair of the Department of Performing Arts, the production is being staged by the Department of Performing Arts students as a senior project. Performances[Read More…]
Bilkent History Graduate Symposium was hosted on May 4–5 by the Department of History. The two-day symposium brought together 28 graduate students from Turkey, the UK, the US and Austria. The symposium opened with a welcoming speech by Department Chair Mehmet Kalpaklı and a keynote talk by Christoph K. Neumann[Read More…]
Bilkent Laboratory and International School (BLIS) inaugurated its Documentation Studio on May 3, marking the opening of the first such facility in Turkey. Documentation Studio is an innovative initiative that provides educators from pre-K to high school, as well as higher education faculty, with an open space to document and[Read More…]
IEEE Bilkent Student Branch initiated a new magazine, Mercek Dergi, which aims to provide undergraduate students from science and engineering faculties with the opportunity to read and analyze academic papers and write articles that reflect their understanding of the topics. In addition, the magazine encourages students to interview alumni and[Read More…]
Mechanical Engineering students Alihan Bakır, Doğa Özbek, Amirali Abazari, Mustafa Uğur, Burak Arslan and Alperen Özzeybek joined the sixth IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023) in April. This annual event, which this year took place in Singapore, is one of the world!s leading conferences on soft robotics and[Read More…]
Bilkent University’s 25th Career Fair, organized by the Career and Alumni Office, will kick off soon. The fair, which will be held May 10 and 11, will give Bilkent students and graduates a chance to learn more about job opportunities and recruitment policies in sectors such as Defence & Space,[Read More…]
A conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey and the birth of Azerbaijan’s former president Haydar Aliyev was held on April 25 at the Mithat Çoruh Auditorium. The event was organized by Bilkent University in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of[Read More…]
On April 18, Bilkent Art Society conducted an interview with state artist and piano virtuoso Gülsin Onay at the Bilkent Concert Hall. It was a conversation about Onay’s childhood, education, concerts, musical career and the great composers in her repertoire, namely Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Haydn and Liszt.The event[Read More…]
Bilkent students Yaren Kalın (IAED/I), Tuba Alkan (IAED/I), Gül Deniz Uludoğan (IAED/I), Zeynep Eda Aydın (COMD/I) and Feyza Demir (IAED/I) went to Hatay for three days between April 12–15, after midterm exams, to facilitate activities for children living in the tent city. They organized many activities in the psychosocial support[Read More…]
On April 4, 2023, Bilkent University Center for Human Rights Studies and Research (the HRC) hosted the International Protection and Migration in Turkey Conference at Mithat Çoruh Conference Hall.The conference commemorated the 10th anniversary of Law No. 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection, bringing together around 200 participants, including scholars,[Read More…]
