The 26th Career Fair was held at the Bilkent University Main Campus Sports Hall on February 28 and 29 and was visited by 5000 students. The event hosted approximately 600 Human Resources professionals and unit managers from 78 major corporations. The Career Fair is held annually by the Career and[Read More…]
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Luca Zavagno Receives Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) Project Grant
Dr. Luca Zavagno, associate professor (joint appointee) in the Department of History and Archaeology, has been awarded the prestigious Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) Research Grant (worth $10,000) to help support his project, “Parnassos: An Anatolian pilgrimage town, its bishop (and its waters) in the transition from Late Antiquity to the[Read More…]
The International Chronicles
BY MAHİR HASSAN MİAN (ECON/II) Name: Nazihah Jokoo Department: Management Country of Origin: Mauritius What were your first impressions about Turkey? It was a new and different atmosphere with a culture unlike anything I’d experienced before. It was difficult to communicate because of the language barrier. What do you like[Read More…]
Radio Bilkent’s First General Meeting of the Spring Semester
More than 80 people attended Radio Bilkent’s first general meeting of the spring semester, which was held in the EE Building. Nida Aktaş, general coordinator of Radio Bilkent, chaired the meeting. The main agenda items included details regarding the progress recorded by the 12 units, developments specific to each unit[Read More…]
BILT Theater Text Auditions
The BILT 2023/24 Theater Text Auditions are organized by BILT (Bilkent International Laboratory Theater), a professional ensemble established within the Department of Performing Arts at Bilkent University that brings together theater lovers from Ankara with original works of theater every season. The ensemble, which aims to develop and stage new[Read More…]
Bülent Batuman Co-edits New Book
Assoc. Prof. Bülent Batuman, chair of the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, is the co-editor of “The Urban Refugee: Space, Agency, and the New Urban Condition,” a book recently published by Intellect. Forced migration has become a hot topic of policy as well as scholarship in the recent[Read More…]
FACULTY Q&A: Interview with Çağrı İmamoğlu
Dr. Çağrı İmamoğlu is an architect and environment-behavior researcher. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from METU Department of Architecture, and in 2002 he completed his PhD degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bilkent University. He attained[Read More…]
Iuris Agora Law Forum Welcomes Esteemed Legal Experts
Held annually in February, the Iuris Agora Law Forum marks the culmination of a thought-provoking discourse on the legal landscape and serves as a cornerstone event for the legal community, offering a platform where luminaries from diverse legal domains convene to share insights, experiences and expertise. This year’s forum witnessed[Read More…]
Bilkent University Mourns the Loss of Prof. Metin Heper
Bilkent University lost Prof. Metin Heper, retired faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, on Saturday, February 24, 2024. Prof. Heper, who joined Bilkent University in 1988, served as the Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the Dean of the Faculty[Read More…]
Fitness Challenge
The “Sports as a Way of Life” fitness challenge, held at the Dormitories, Main and East Sports Halls, will run between March 11 and April 7 and is open to all students. Participants are to work out at least two and at most five times per week. Participants can do,[Read More…]