Wednesday, April 26 and May 3, 7 p.m.Bilkent Chamber TheaterWritten by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière)Directed by Volkan M. SarıözTranslated by Sabahattin EyüboğluLighting Design: Yılmaz ErtekinCostume Design: Zeynep VarlıerCast: Aslı Bilge, Orkan Aydın, Yağmur Şen, Ayşe Yağmur Başak, Elif Özkara, Berfin Tosuner, İlker Şengül, Ege TolgaLighting Assistant: Akın ÇalışkanTechnical Assistance: Elif Ekizoğlu,[Read More…]
Volume 29
The Sporting Life
Name: Renas Akbaş Department: Chemistry How often do you exercise?I exercise more than four days a week. How has regular exercise affected your life?It helps me regulate my life. Because of sports, I can focus on my lessons better. What do you suggest to those who are just taking up[Read More…]
MFA Student Awarded Best Fantasy Film at SİYAD Awards
Department of Communication and Design 2021 graduate and current MFA student Nur Özkaya received the Giovanni Scognamillo Best Fantasy Film award at the 55th SİYAD (Turkish Film Critics Association) Awards for her short animation film, “There Is Nothing Called Home.” The film tells the story of a person who is[Read More…]
Faculty Members Honored at BAGEP Awards Ceremony
A ceremony to honor this year’s recipients of the Distinguished Young Scientist (BAGEP) award was held on April 8 at the Bilkent Concert Hall. Eight Bilkent faculty members were among the individuals receiving awards. This year, 39 scientists were named BAGEP award recipients. The Bilkent awardees are: Asst. Prof. Ayşenur[Read More…]
Bilkent Alumna Named Among UK’s Top Executives
Burçin Ressamoğlu (IR’94), CEO of Sodexo UK Advantage & Reward Services, has been listed among the 100 inspiring women leaders by Yahoo Finance and Involve UK and ranked ninth in the Heroes Women Role Model List due to her activities promoting gender equality and cultural diversity in the business world.[Read More…]
Reducing Turkey’s Energy Dependency Project by Bilkent Students
BY ELİF BÜŞRA KARAZİYAN (MBG/II) Zehra Ekiz, a senior psychology student, and Mehmet Batuhan Candar, a senior electrical and electronics engineering student, received TÜBİTAK funding for their research “Machine Learning Analysis of Reducing Türkiye’s Energy Dependency Using Renewable Resources Based on Iceland’s Energy Model.” We asked them about the process[Read More…]
Bilkent Celebrates 59th Annual Library Week
59th Library Week activities were held from March 27 to April 2. This year’s theme was “Achievements of the Republic and Librarianship.” Activities to mark this year’s celebrations included a library surprise activity, “Find an article, win the prize” competition, and a discussion on the contributions of women librarians in[Read More…]
TDP Annual Children’s Festival
Toplumsal Duyarlılık Projeleri (TDP) is organizing their annual Children’s Festival to be in person for the first time in three years. The festival will take place on Saturday, May 6th, on the East Campus grass field with the participation of children from TDP’s target group as well as earthquake victims.[Read More…]
FACULTY Q&A: Interview with Lorna Yeşilkaya
BY PELİN SU UZUNCAGİL (AMER/II) Lorna Yeşilkaya has been an Instructor in the Faculty Academic English Program at Bilkent since 2015 and has taught English since 2001. She holds a BA in German and Spanish and an MA in Applied Linguistics. Her MA dissertation was socio-linguistic in nature. She also[Read More…]
The International Chronicles
BY MAHİR HASSAN MİAN (ECON/I) Name: Ricardo Román Brene Department: Computer Engineering Country of Origin: I came straight up from paradise, Costa Rica. What do you like best about Turkey?I would say probably kebap and Beyoğlu Zencefilli Gazoz. Are there any similarities between Turkey and your home country?Not many, but[Read More…]