A team of students from Bilkent University, Boğaziçi University and Koç University has won one of the four top awards at the Teknofest Agriculture Technologies Competition, where they competed against 5,283 other projects. The team, named Agricure, created the project “Application of Blockchain Technology in the Food Supply Chain,” which[Read More…]
Faculty of Law students Melek Akbulut, Gül Su Bulut, Birge Mine Gümüş and Yağız Barış Özel won first prize in the oral rounds of the Prof. Dr. Yaşar Karayalçın Second Moot Court Competition, which was organized by the European Law Students Association (ELSA) Ankara. In addition, the petitions that these[Read More…]
In place of Spring Festival, which has been cancelled this year, the university, in consultation with the Student Council, will organize a “Welcome Summer Festival” on June 17–18 to celebrate the end of the spring semester and the start of summer. Details of the festival will be available in the[Read More…]
The Department of Archaeology, in collaboration with the British Institute at Ankara, recently hosted a hybrid conference titled “Integrated Approaches to the Political Geography of Southern Anatolia, 1650‒550 BCE.” The event was organized by Dr. N. İlgi Gerçek and Dr. Michele Massa along with the help of a dedicated team[Read More…]
The Department of Communication and Design (COMD), with support from the United States Embassy in Turkey, hosted the Sounding Off 2023 event at Bilkent on May 6 and 7 in the COMD media production studio. The purpose of the event was to motivate and provide guidance to women who have[Read More…]
The 2023 Graduation Ball will be held on June 20 at the Bilkent Hotel’s Sakarya Ballroom at 8 p.m. The ball will feature Ankara Express Orchestra and DJ Levent Özkazanç. The ticket price is 970 TL. per person. Those who want to attend the ball can fill out the application[Read More…]
Toplumsal Duyarlılık Projeleri (TDP) organized their annual Children’s Festival in person for the first time in three years on May 6, at the East Campus grass field. More than 250 children from TDP’s eight target groups as well as earthquake victims participated in the event. TDP had many activities for[Read More…]
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…]
