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91th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic
Happy Republic Day! Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Republic Day Concert Saturday, October 25 8 p.m. Bilkent Concert Hall Conductor: Christoph Mathias Mueller Violin: Valeriy Sokolov F. Köksal, “Imaginary Spaces” for Chamber Orchestra, Turkish premiere P. I. Tchaikovsky,
Read More »“History of Turkey” Award Ceremony
History of Turkey/HIST 200 is a required course for all Bilkent undergraduate students. This course is designed to encourage students to work in group projects on any topic of their choice that relates to
Read More »BELS Student Represents Turkey at German Language Olympics
Ece Özer, a student at Bilkent Erzurum Laboratory School, and her German teacher, Yasemin Kuş, attended the regional competition of the German Language Olympics at the Ankara Goethe Institute last spring. The Olympics consisted
Read More »GRA Hosts Polish Poster Week in Ankara
This week, the Bilkent University Department of Graphic Design is hosting Polish Poster Week. The event, organized by the Association of Art Gardens in cooperation with CerModern and Krzysztof Dydo’s Cracow Poster Gallery to
Read More »Worse than Bootlegs
Bootlegs can be nightmares for record companies but at the same time quite beneficial for bands, since they serve as free-of-charge advertisements for the latter. Before telling you what is even worse than a
Read More »Faces on Campus
By Elif Karabay (IR/IV) Name:Sümeyye Küçük (POLS/I) What’s your favorite triple? a) Movie: “The Shawshank Redemption” b) Book: “Improbable” by Adam Fawer c) Song: “One Love” by Bob Marley Can you describe yourself in three words?
Read More »DOST Scales the Heights as Petzl RocTrip Comes to Turkey
The Bilkent Outdoor Sports Society (DOST) training courses, which cover the principles and techniques of rock climbing and other outdoor sports, are underway—and club members have already had a great opportunity to try out
Read More »Faculty Promotions
September 2014 Nail Akar, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, was promoted to the rank of Professor, effective September 30, 2014. Hakkı Turgay Kaptanoğlu, Associate Professor in
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