Honoring October 10 Victims, Bilkent Students Ask for Peace
On Monday, October 12, Bilkent students gathered around the fountain in front of the Faculty of Science building to commemorate the victims of the horrific attack at the Ankara train station on October 10.
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Board of Trustees Meets
The Bilkent University Board of Trustees met on September 5, 2015. Present at the meeting were Board Chairman Ali Doğramacı, Board members Lucien Arkas, İlker Baybars, Turgay Coşkun, Gülsev Kale, Ali Karaosmanoğlu, Yahya Laleli,
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Aziz Sancar, Bilkent Honorary Degree Recipient, Wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy announced last week that the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was being awarded jointly to three scientists for their “mechanistic studies of DNA repair.” Aziz Sancar, the recipient of an
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Gift to Management Department Honors Graduate’s Memory
Soner Güner and Bircan Güner, the parents of Department of Management 2005 graduate Caner Güner, whom we lost in March of this year, visited Bilkent on October 7 to make a gift to the
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Shaping Political Science in Turkey
“Türkiye’de Siyaset Bilimine Yön Verenler” (People Who Have Shaped Political Science in Turkey), a new book from Bahçeşehir University Press, is a collection of interviews with 11 doyens in the field of Political Science
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Bilkent Graduate Attends Foreign Correspondents’ Program in Finland
Administered by Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the “thisisFINLAND” Foreign Correspondents’ Program is an event targeted at young journalists worldwide, offering them an opportunity to gain in-depth information about the country. Özüm Örs, an
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18th Orhan Alisbah Award Ceremony Held
From left to right: Mefharet Kocatepe, Süleyman Kerimov, Zeliha Ural, Tayfun Özçelik Two students, Süleyman Kerimov (MATH/IV) and Zeliha Ural (MATH/PhD), received this year’s Orhan Alisbah Fellowships at a ceremony held by the Department
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The Economist’s Cartoonist Gives Workshop at Bilkent
Kevin Kallaugher, the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine, was at Bilkent on October 6th to lead a workshop on politics and satire. The renowned cartoonist, whose work appears under the pen name KAL,
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