Bilkent Mourns the Loss of Mehmet Serhat Azgur

Bilkent Mourns the Loss of Mehmet Serhat Azgur

October 30, 2013

Bilkent University lost Mehmet Serhat Azgur, instructor in the Department of Computer and Instructional Technology Teacher Education and the Department of Computer Technology and Programming in the Faculty of Education, on Monday, October 21.

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IE Graduates Awarded INFORMS Research Prize

IE Graduates Awarded INFORMS Research Prize

October 30, 2013

New graduates of the Department of Industrial Engineering Nazlı Akar, Başak Kepir, Çağıl Koçyiğit, Işıl Koyuncu, Melis Beren Özer and Tunca Türkoğlu have been awarded the 2013 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize for their

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Packard Fellowship, NIH “New Innovator” Award Go to Bilkent Graduate

Packard Fellowship, NIH “New Innovator” Award Go to Bilkent Graduate

October 30, 2013

Bilkent graduate Özgür Şahin (EE/’01), an associate professor in the Columbia University Department of Biological Sciences and Physics, has recently received two awards: a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering and an NIH Director’s

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Bilkent Innovators Take Step to Combat Global Warming

Bilkent Innovators Take Step to Combat Global Warming

October 30, 2013

Kemal Apaydın (IE/’13) and Ömer Can Gökdere (CS/IV) have established a solar power system that produces its own energy from sunlight by using solar panels installed on campus. They have been working on the

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Chemistry Professor Named RSC Fellow

Chemistry Professor Named RSC Fellow

October 21, 2013

Prof. Engin Umut Akkaya of the Department of Chemistry has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). The RSC, headquartered in the UK, has more than 47,000 members worldwide. The

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Bilkent’s Nazım Hikmet Symposium

Bilkent’s Nazım Hikmet Symposium

October 21, 2013

The Turkish Literature Center of Bilkent University will present an international Nâzım Hikmet Symposium on Thursday and Friday, October 24-25, in observance of the 50th year of the poet’s death. The theme of the

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Prof. Halman Receives “Distinguished Senior Citizen” Award

Prof. Halman Receives “Distinguished Senior Citizen” Award

October 21, 2013

On October 5, at the International İstanbul Congress of the International Federation on Ageing (IFA), Prof. Talât Halman, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Letters, was given the “Distinguished Senior Citizen” award by

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Festschrift Honors Özer Ergenç

Festschrift Honors Özer Ergenç

October 21, 2013

BY NİL TEKGÜL (HIST/PhD) & ALP RODOPLU (HIST/MA) Festschrift (a celebratory collection of articles) has been published in honor of Prof. Özer Ergenç of the Department of History, in recognition of his outstanding contributions

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