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BSO Opens Its 25th Season With a Live Broadcast
BY ŞEBNEM TÜRE (PSYC/II) The Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, the first private, international, academic orchestral ensemble to be established in Turkey, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The BSO’s 2018–19 concert season started last
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“Turkish Nomad” Relates the Life Story of Talat Halman
A biography of the late dean of the Bilkent University Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Prof. Talat Halman, has been published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Written by Dr. Jayne L. Warner (former director
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Signify and Microsoft to Present Seminars on Campus
The Career Center has arranged for two major corporations – Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) and Microsoft – to hold seminars on campus where industry- and career-related topics will be discussed. The seminars will take
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Bilkent Composition Student Receives Award in Switzerland
Emre Eröz, a composition student in the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, was recently awarded second prize in the pre-art Competition for Young Composers for his ensemble piece “Amnesia.” Based in Switzerland, pre-art
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1.923K Republic Run: This Saturday!
All students, alumni, faculty, staff and alumni/faculty/staff family members are invited to participate in the 2018 Republic Run, which will take place on Saturday, October 20, at 11 a.m. You can register and get
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Archaeology Field Trip: Experiencing 3,500 Years on a Sunny Saturday
On Saturday, October 6, the Department of Archaeology organized a study trip to archaeological sites in the vicinity of Ankara. The excursion was led by Asst. Prof. Thomas Zimmermann, who first took the group
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The International Chronicles
BY NAUSHERWAN AZIZ (MAN/IV) Name: Samareen Zubair Kapadia Department: Psychology/I Country of Origin: Pakistan What do you like best about Turkey? The food and the weather, for sure. Are there any similarities between Turkey
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Bilkent Welcomes This Fall’s New International Students
A new group of international exchange and full-time students has arrived for the fall semester. This semester Bilkent University is hosting 64 new exchange students from 18 countries and has registered 117 full-time international
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