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Class of 2023 Begins Their Bilkent Journey
This year’s GE100 Orientation, a course designed to welcome incoming students and acclimatize them to the university’s academic and social environment, was held September 16–18. During GE100, students collected the points necessary to receive
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No-Smoking Areas Expanded on Campus
Restrictions on the use of cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products on the Bilkent University campus have been expanded. Smoking and no-smoking areas have been re-marked to indicate the new boundaries of those
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Composition Student, Graduate, to Have Their Works Performed at New Music Festival
Emre Eröz, a sophomore student in the Department of Music’s Composition and Theory program, is among eight composers selected to participate in the 2020 Taproot New Music Festival, scheduled to take place January 28
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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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