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Bilkent-ASELSAN Partnership Establishes Turkey’s First Commercial Chip Factory

Bilkent-ASELSAN Partnership Establishes Turkey’s First Commercial Chip Factory

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The groundbreaking ceremony for Turkey’s first commercial electronic chip factory took place on Tuesday, December 23, with Minister of National Defense İsmet Yılmaz in attendance. The factory will serve as the production facility of

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TÜBİTAK Awards for 2014 Presented to Bilkent Faculty Members

TÜBİTAK Awards for 2014 Presented to Bilkent Faculty Members

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The 2014 TÜBİTAK awards ceremony took place on December 24 at the presidential palace. Three Bilkent University professors and two Bilkent graduates were among those recognized by TÜBİTAK (the Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Season’s Greetings from the Bilkent News Editorial Board

Season’s Greetings from the Bilkent News Editorial Board

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Dear Bilkent News Readers,   The Bilkent News Editorial Board wishes you a healthy and prosperous New Year–may all your dreams and expectations be fulfilled! The next issue of Bilkent News will come out

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Kadebostany Concert Review and a Brief Look at Turkey’s Concert  Culture

Kadebostany Concert Review and a Brief Look at Turkey’s Concert Culture

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As I promised in earlier columns, this week I present to you the one and only Kadebostany. I was introduced to this band only a few months ago, and they have been one of

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Operational Research Club Holds 10th Youth Academy

Operational Research Club Holds 10th Youth Academy

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The 10th Youth Academy took place on December 20-21 at the Congresium International Convention and Exhibition Center. Youth Academy is a national symposium that has been organized by the Bilkent University Industrial Engineering Operational

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FEASS Students’ Team Projects Judged by Expert Panels

FEASS Students’ Team Projects Judged by Expert Panels

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On Saturday, December 20, 36 teams of students from the GE443, GE444 and GE445 courses presented their transdisciplinary senior projects to three panels of experts from the public and private sectors. Each panel judged

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Exam Period at the Library

Exam Period at the Library

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In order to help students prepare for final exams, between December 22, 2014, and January 9, 2015, Bilkent University Main Campus Library is remaining open from 8:30 a.m. until 3 a.m. (except on December

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The Pillars of Venice

The Pillars of Venice

admin December 30, 2014 Comments Off on The Pillars of Venice

What were we talking about? Oh, right: Italy. Now that we’ve basically covered four of the five cities my travel group visited, I’m going to move on to Venice. As you may have read

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