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IE Grad Receives INFORMS Award
Feyza Güliz Şahinyazan (IE BSc ’10 and MSc ’12) has received a second place award for her entry in the “Doing Good with Good Operations Research” student paper competition. The award was presented during
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TÜRKSAV Award Ceremony in Honor of Prof. Halil İnalcık
BY ASLI YİĞİT (HIST/PhD) On Tuesday, November 17, a ceremony honoring Prof. Halil İnalcık, the founder of the History Department at Bilkent University, took place in the Halil İnalcık Center for Ottoman Studies at
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Matrakçı Nasuh: Mathematician, Historian, Artist…
UNESCO has proclaimed 2014 as the “Year of Matrakçı Nasuh,” it being the 450th anniversary of his death. The sixteenth-century polymath will be celebrated in an occasion sponsored jointly by the Turkish National Commission
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New Book by ELIT Prof Views London’s Multiculturalism Through the Lens of Fiction
Michael Perfect, assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, has a new book, “Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism,” published by Palgrave Macmillan in October. Dr. Perfect’s main research interests are in twentieth-
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Donations Now Being Collected for UNICEF Fair
UNICEF volunteers will be holding their annual fair on December 3-5at the National Committee UNICEF House, located between the Student Union Building and the faculty housing area on Main Campus. The fair will be
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4 of a Kind
We “have” four aces this week. Although the title is also a reference to an album by D.R.I., none of the bands below belong to the crossover/thrash metal genre. The common characteristic shared by
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Face on Campus
Name:Emre Özgür (IR/III) What’s your favorite triple? a) Movie: “Life Is Beautiful” b) Book: “Bab-I Esrar” by Ahmet Ümit c) Song:“Fosso Nejdat” by Ahmet Kaya Can you describe yourself in
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Orhan Alisbah Remembered as MATH Students Receive Fellowships
From left to right: Prof. Metin Gürses, Dean Tayfun Özçelik, Gökalp Alpan, Prof. Mefharet Kocatepe, Oğuzhan Yürük Two students, Gökalp Alpan (MATH/PhD) and Oğuzhan Yürük (MATH/IV), received this year’s Orhan Alisbah Fellowships at a ceremony
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