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Celebrating a Remarkable Life: Bilkent Remembers İhsan Doğramacı on Bilkent Day
April 3 is the birthday of Bilkent University’s founder, Prof. İhsan Doğramacı. Each year, the university community celebrates the occasion as Bilkent Day, with events including a luncheon, the annual Bilkent Day Conference and
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Come Celebrate Spring!
It’s once again time to celebrate spring together, with a great program of activities that will take place April 28 to 30 in the Main Campus Festival Area and at the Odeon. The schedule
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Bilkent Faculty Receive BAGEP Awards
Seven Bilkent faculty members have received Distinguished Young Scientist (BAGEP) awards for 2016. The awards are given by the Science Academy Association (Bilim Akademisi Derneği), which was established in 2011. The award recipients are:
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“The Books That Shaped Your Life”
David Michael Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology BY MELİS ERDEM (ARCH/II) The most influential book that I’ve read—and one that put my life on an entirely different pathway of living—is “The Power of
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The International Chronicles
Name: Chi Wen Lee Department: Industrial Engineering Country of Origin: Taiwan What do you like best about Turkey? The food and the friendly people I’ve met so far. Are there any similarities between your
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NEW URBANISM
S. Eliot said, “And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” How right could a man be? Humans began to
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LEGION
I had long had it in mind to build an ant farm, thanks in no small part to a carpenter ant queen that I found last September, which overwintered in my office and started
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ON THE PSYCHEDELIC EDGE, PART 1
The psychedelic rock of the 60s and 70s is most often characterized in terms of its relation to psychedelic drugs and their effects. In a more musical sense, I would contend that psychedelic sound
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