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…]
Name: Erdem Onar Department: English Language and Literature (ELIT) How often do you exercise?I exercise four to six times a week, one to two hours a day. How has regular exercise affected your life?Learning to exercise regularly has made me understand how to gain habits and keep them throughout my[Read More…]
The 25th Career Fair was held at the Bilkent University Main Campus Sports Hall on May 10 and 11. The event hosted representatives from 73 major corporations. The Career Fair is held annually by the Career and Alumni Office. It provides Bilkent students with a chance to communicate with major[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…]
Asst. Prof. Urartu Şeker from Bilkent University’s National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) has been awarded funding for his project, “Design of a Probiotic Bacterial Strain Producing Human Milk Oligosaccharide with a Synthetic Biology Approach for Functional Food Applications.” The project comes as a result of the 1003-Agricultural Research Joint Call,[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…]
Asst. Prof. John O’Dwyer, who served as the Director of the English Language Preparatory Program (1996-2015), a member of the Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences and Coordinator of İ.D.V. Private Bilkent Schools, passed away on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. As a long-time and beloved member of the Bilkent[Read More…]
