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Bilkent Professor Serves as Shannon Lecturer and Plenary Speaker at IEEE Symposium
On July 10, Prof. Erdal Arıkan of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering participated in the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) as Shannon Lecturer and plenary speaker.The symposium took place
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CS Student Wins QNB Finansbank KBOYO19 Competition
Bilkent Computer Science master’s student H. Alperen Çetin took first place in a competition held by QNB Finansbank in June. Open to students from throughout Turkey, the KBOYO19 competition focused on the use of
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UNAM Graduate Forwards Research on Artificial Muscles
Materials Science and Nanotechnology (UNAM) PhD graduate Mehmet Kanık, currently pursuing postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has with MIT researchers developed artificial muscles that can stretch to remarkable lengths and lift
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Academic Administrative Changes
Assoc. Prof. Yasemin Afacan, previously acting chair of the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, was appointed chair of the department, effective May 7, 2019. Assoc. Prof. Çerağ Esra Çuhadar was
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Mehmet Özgür Oktel, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, was promoted to the rank of Professor, effective May 16, 2019. Alexander Degtyarev, Associate Professor in the Department of
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Effective June 10, 2019, Tuncay Arif İbiş was appointed director of Support and Transportation Services. He took over the position from Mesut Bozkurt, who had been serving as acting director since April of this
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Archaeology Students Get On-site Experience at Labraunda
At the end of last semester, students in the HART126 Archaeological Planning or Planning and Drawing in the Field course took a two-day field trip to Labraunda, an archaeological site situated near the modern
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Through Your Eyes: Bilkent News Readers’ Photos
If you would like to share photographs you have taken on the Bilkent campus, please send them to us at bilnews@bilkent.edu.tr. When space permits, we will choose one to publish in Bilkent News
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