One-Minute Lunch Film Competition
This week, the Department of Communication and Design is holding its fourth One-Minute Lunch Film Competition, featuring 8 one-minute-long films produced by COMD fourth-year students. Participating films will be screened and the winners announced
Read More »Rebuilt From the Ground Up, Table d’Hote Restaurant Reopens
The Table d’Hôte Restaurant, located across from the Faculty of Engineering Building, has reopened, with service resuming there on Saturday, March 15. The previous restaurant building had been demolished in May 2013 to prepare
Read More »Berkin Elvan Commemorated on Campus
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11-12, Bilkent students gathered on Main Campus to stage a sit-in demonstration in memory 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who died early March 11 after 269 days in a coma, a
Read More »Bilkent Spring Fest 2014 Dates Announced
This year’s Spring Fest will be held April 24 to 26 (Thursday through Saturday). The Main Campus Spring Fest Area will be the venue for most activities, with concerts to take place in the
Read More »World Poetry Day Friday, March 21
Ever since UNESCO initiated World Poetry Day in the year 2000, Bilkent’s Center for Turkish Literature has celebrated the event with a special program every year. This year’s program will feature the poetry of
Read More »UNAM Team Brings Advanced Spectroscopy to Mobile Phones
Spectroscopic analysis methods provide a great deal of information about material properties, but require complex optics and costly equipment to do so. Recent research at UNAM (National Nanotechnology Research Center) suggests that mobile phone
Read More »“Where’s My Bus?” App Lets Riders Track Bilkent Buses Via Smartphone
Bilkent is now offering an application (available in both iOS and Android) to help commuters on their way to the university. The free “Servisim Nerede?” (Where’s My Bus?) app is ready to use to
Read More »Hitay Özbay and Tuğrul Dayar Appointed Associate Provosts
Prof. Tu?rul Dayar of the Department of Computer Engineering and Prof. Hitay Özbay of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering have been appointed associate provosts for the university. Effective March 15, Prof. Dayar
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