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Recent Administrative Changes
A number of new administrative appointments have been made recently, marking the beginning of the 2014 fall semester. Two administrative departments have seen new appointments due to the retirement of their longtime heads. Seval
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Two Bilkent faculties have new appointments at the dean/associate dean levels. In the Faculty of Law, Professor Turgut Tan has been appointed dean, replacing Professor Osman Berat Gürzumar in the position. In the Faculty
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BELS Teacher is Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow
Melanie Swetz, head of English at Bilkent Erzurum Laboratory School, spent three weeks in Salt Lake City, Utah, this summer on a fellowship from the Norman Mailer Center and Writer’s Colony. This is the
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Caterpillars and Butterflies
The first article of the year is always tricky to write. What if this column happens to be one of the first things you read this semester? I want it to sound welcoming but
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Godless Month
One thing I really appreciate about polytheistic religions is how inclusive they can get. The Hittite Empire, for example, fancied itself the land of a thousand gods, and the Hittites certainly had the religious
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Psychedelic Meets Ethnic, Blinks to Post-Rock
This week I want to talk about a Turkish band, Nekropsi. They have a genuine style of their own, and I can easily say that they are one of the most original bands I
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Bilkent MBA Students Enter Bloomberg “Hall of Fame”
Each year, thousands of students interested in a career in finance take the Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT), which measures individuals’ strengths and weaknesses as related to a career in finance. Employers such as investment
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Bilkent Welcomes International Students for the 2014-15 Academic Year
A new group of international exchange and full-time students has arrived for the fall semester. This semester Bilkent University is hosting 145 new exchange students from 25 countries and 174 full-time international students from
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