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Bilkent Community Mourns Talât Halman’s Loss
Professor Talât Halman, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Letters, founding chairman of the Department of Turkish Literature and Turkey’s first Minister of Culture, passed away on December 5, 2014, following a massive
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TDP-ENDOST: Showing There Are No Barriers in Friendship
BY BARIŞ SEVİ (PSYC/IV) ENDOST, the Friends Without Barriers Project, is a TDP (Social Awareness Projects) volunteer initiative that focuses on socializing with mentally disabled individuals, primarily through visits to the Gölbaşı facility of
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Hamza Yeşilyurt Wins Sedat Simavi Science Award
Dr. Hamza Yeşilyurt, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, has won the 2014 Sedat Simavi Foundation Science Award for his work “Elementary Proofs of Some Identities of Ramanujan for the Rogers-Ramanujan Functions,”
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Origins of the Names
Many rock and metal bands make references to a variety of different sources, including literature, mythology and other artists, to name just a few. They do it in their lyrics, in the names of
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Faces on Campus
By Elif Karabay (IR/IV) Name: Cihan Arık (LAW/III) What’s your favorite triple? a) Movie: “The Usual Suspects” b) Book: “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding c) Song: “Instant Crush” by Daft Punk Can
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Special Lecture on Edgar Allan Poe
On Monday, December 15, Mutlu Konuk Blasing, a distinguished professor of American literature at Brown University, will deliver a special lecture entitled “Edgar Allan Poe: The Tyranny of the Word,” organized by the Department
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Bilkent University Researchers Meet with Industry
On Tuesday, November 25, the Bilkent University Technology Transfer Office (Bilkent TTO) held an event, Bilkent University-Industry Collaboration and Support Programs Information and Match Day, which was attended by academicians, researchers and industry delegates.
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Science Center at the Peak of Anatolia?
Bilkent Erzurum Laboratory School Science Club teachers have attended the METU Science Fair in Ankara and visited the Science Museum in London as the first steps in establishing a regional science center that will,
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