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BELS Student Wins Silver Medal in World Philosophy Olympiad
BELS (Bilkent Erzurum Laboratory School) student Öznur Hancı earned a silver medal in the World Philosophy Olympiad, held in Estonia May 15–17. Öznur, who graduated this year, saw off competition from 83 other young
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Bilkent Researchers Working to Develop a Portable Genetic Diagnostics Kit
Bilkent University faculty members Asst. Prof. Yegân Erdem (ME), Asst. Prof. Barbaros Çetin (ME) and Asst. Prof. Coşkun Kocabaş (PHYS) are undertaking the development of portable diagnostic chips that will enable the detection of
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COMD to Host Bilkent Media Future Initiative
Media making today is something fundamentally different from what it was before. Content, people and platforms are connected und interact in increasingly dynamic ways. Filmmakers, storytellers, gamers, coders and designers must learn to collaborate
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Ex Libris: News from the Library
Welcome, or welcome back, from the University Library to all Bilkenters for the academic year 2015-16! Bilkent librarians have already met most of the new students as part of this year’s GE100 orientation. Around
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LAUD’s Sustainability Charrette Offers International Perspective on Urban Transformation
On July 4, the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (LAUD) held an international charrette on the topic of “Sustainable Urban Transformation: Future Scenarios and Design Policies.” For this day-long meeting and workshop,
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ARCH 101
Welcome back! It’s been a long and eventful summer, but now we’ve returned, even if it’s for the last time (which it is for me). This is my fifth and—please don’t misunderstand, but finally—last
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Man-Eater Cricket
Three types of animals are virtually guaranteed to be interesting: parasites within ordinarily free-living groups; specialized predators derived from herbivores and scavengers; and oddballs that are given their own higher taxa, distinct from anything
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“Nazım Oratorio” Performed at Bilkent
On August 29 and 30, a special concert took place at the Bilkent Odeon. The Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of head conductor Naci Özgüç, performed the “Nazım Oratorio,” composed in 2001 by
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