IE Senior Project Makes INFORMS Competition Finals
A senior project conducted by Department of Industrial Engineering students has made it to the international finals of the 2016 INFORMS “Doing Good With Good OR” student paper competition. The Institute for Operations Research
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Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates Honored with Festschrift
On Saturday, October 22, the Department of Archaeology organized a special reception to honor long-time members of the department Dr. Marie-Henriette Gates and Dr. Charles Gates for their wide-ranging contributions to Near Eastern archaeology,
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Turkey’s Decision to Stay on DST Will Affect Computers
Turkey has decided to keep its clocks on daylight savings time (DST), also known as summer time, throughout the year. The country has abandoned the practice of adjusting the local time to and from
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Student Exchange Program Applications
The university’s Student Exchange Program gives Bilkent students the opportunity to study abroad. The application process for student exchanges during the next academic year (2017-2018) has started. Students currently in their third or fourth
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Book Collection Campaign to Help Schools
The Social Awareness Projects (Toplumsal Duyarlılık Projeleri – TDP) student organization at Bilkent is conducting a book collection campaign. The donated books (for grades 1-8) will help create or expand libraries in schools that
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A Word From the Wise: Seniors’ Advice to Freshmen
BY TASNEEM AL-GHAMDI (COMD/IV) This week, Shari Gamaniel, a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering student from Nigeria, gives advice as to how this year’s freshmen can make their university lives a bit easier and less complicated.
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“The Books That Shaped Your Life”
John Spencer Hawkins, Assistant Professor, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas BY MELİS ERDEM (ARCH/III) The book that influenced me most was “The Brothers Karamazov,” a thousand-page Russian novel that I read in English
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The International Chronicles
BY ZOHA TASNEEM (IAED/III) Name: Seyedamirreza Seyfafjehi Department: Architecture Country of Origin: Iran What do you like best about Turkey? The food and the hospitable people. Are there any similarities between your country’s culture
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