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Board of Advisors Visits Bilkent, Meets with Board of Trustees

Board of Advisors Visits Bilkent, Meets with Board of Trustees

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The Bilkent University Board of Trustees met on November 13, 2013. Present at the meeting were Board Chairman Ali Doğramacı, Vice Chairman Ergün Toğrol, Vice Chairman Ergül Tunçbilek, Gülsev Kale, Yahya Laleli, Ahmet Nalbur,

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Bilkent and BLIS Alumni Win White House Energy Competition

Bilkent and BLIS Alumni Win White House Energy Competition

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Mehmet Cengiz Onbaşlı (EEE/’10) and Defne Gürel (BLIS/’11) were members of an award-winning team at the Better Buildings Case Competition conducted at the White House by the US Department of Energy. Pursuing the presidential

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ARCH Student Receives ArchED Competition Award

ARCH Student Receives ArchED Competition Award

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Gamze Akyol (ARCH/II) recently won a Jury Special Award in Category 1 of the 12th annual ArchED (Architectural Education Association) Student Project Awards competition. The competition accepted as entries projects produced by undergraduate architecture

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MBG Student’s “New Idea” Takes YFYI Competition’s Top Honors

MBG Student’s “New Idea” Takes YFYI Competition’s Top Honors

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A project developed by Alper Poyraz, MsC student in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, has received a first-prize award in the Yeni Fikirler Yeni İşler (YFYİ – New Ideas, New Businesses) competition

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Soft Matter Lab Students Receive Awards at IONS Conferences

Soft Matter Lab Students Receive Awards at IONS Conferences

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Graduate students Mite Mijalkov and Rania Sayed have returned from the 14th IONS (International OSA Network of Students) conference held in Torun, Poland, bringing home two of the meeting’s most important awards. Mite won

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Bilkent Participates in Rise Program

Bilkent Participates in Rise Program

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This summer, the team of Dr. Giovanni Volpe (Department of Physics) was assisted in the projects “Experimental Measurement of Critical Casimir Forces” and “Experimental Studies of Microswimmers” by German students Lukas Barth and Falko

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Ex Libris: News from the Library

Ex Libris: News from the Library

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Dear Bilkent students… how many of you actually read the BAIS emails sent by the university departments and units, including those from the Library? On the other hand, how many of you follow the

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Benazus Photograph Collection on Display at BLIS

Benazus Photograph Collection on Display at BLIS

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The Bilkent Laboratory International School Parent Teacher Association will be hosting an exhibition of the Hanri Benazus photograph collection in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Mr. Benazus,

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