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Thursday: Rainy March 4, 2014 6°C / 13°C Friday: Rainy Volume 20 3°C / 14°C Number 19 Saturday: Rainy 4°C / 13°C Sunday: Rainy bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr İLKENT EWS 3°C / 15°C B Weekly Newspaper of Bilkent UniversityN Bilkent Faculty Bilkent Team Ranks Second In Unilever's IdeaTrophy Members Receive Contest team of Bilkent students has BAGEP Awards come in second in a contest ssoc. Prof. for university students Sinan organized by Unilever Gezici of Turkey.A the The 12th Unilever IdeaTrophy DepartmentA of Contest Final Camp took place from Electrical and February 17 to 19 in İstanbul. Unilever Electronics IdeaTrophy gives university students Engineering, Asst. the opportunity to learn how business Prof. Ioannis N. works in real life while developing Grigoriadis of the their skills and abilities. Department of Every year, a leading Unilever brand Political Science and is selected as the focus of the contest. Public Brands selected for past challenges Administration, Asst. include Omo, Algida, Lipton, Dove, Knorr and Axe. This year’s brand was Prof. Bülend Ortaç of Magnum; contestants were tasked the Institute of with creating a global marketing and Ayşegül Özge Arı (IE/IV) and Güliz (COMD/IV) supported the team by Materials Science and communication campaign for Bilgütay (IE/IV), participated in the preparing visual materials and Nanotechnology, Asst. Magnum’s 25th anniversary. final camp and presented their project producing the project’s videos. Prof. Özgür Şahin of Magnumania, a team made up of to a panel of Unilever Turkey board Magnumania was selected as first the Department of Bilkent students Sıla Şener (IE/IV), members. Ezgi Dilan Dibek runner-up by the panel. Molecular Biology and Genetics and Asst. Prof. Öznur Three Weeks, Four Cities, Five Concerts: BSO at Home and Taştan of the Department of on the Road Computer n Tuesday, February 25, Photograph by Aydın Ramazanoğlu Engineering have the Bilkent Symphony received 2014 Orchestra gave a concert Distinguished Young dedicated to the memory Scientist (BAGEP) ofO our beloved founder, Prof. İhsan awards. Doğramacı, on the fourth anniversary The awards are of his loss. The orchestra, conducted given by the Science by Artistic Director Işın Metin, Academy Association performed an all-Tchaikovsky concert (Bilim Akademisi Derneği) to featuring the Piano Concerto No. 1, recognize and support outstanding with Jean-Philippe Collard as soloist, young scientists working in Turkey. and the Symphony No. 4. The BSO then traveled to Erbil, Iraq, and Erzurum on February 27 CS Students Win 24- and March 1 to perform at the İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Erbil College Hour Nonstop “Big Concert Hall and the Bilkent Erzurum Concert Hall. Also Data Hackathon” conducted by Mr. Metin, with Mr. ast week, T2 Software, a Collard on the piano, the concerts company based at Bilkent included pieces by Tchaikovsky and Cyberpark, served as the Mussorgsky, with narration by Prof. organizer of a software Talat Halman. take place on March 8 at the Bilkent Saygı” at Boğaziçi University’s Albert Ldevelopment competition called the Big The BSO’s next concert, dedicated Concert Hall. Also, on March 12 the Long Hall in İstanbul. Data Hackathon. (Continued on Page 2) to International Women’s Day, will BSO will perform “Mozart’a Sonsuz http://www.bso.bilkent.edu.tr/ Music School Student Takes First Prize at International Competition ıla Şentürk, a ninth-year development of international student in the Bilkent Music cooperation among musicians from Preparatory School, won first countries all over the world, as well prize at the Valletta as to discover gifted young musicians SInternational Piano Competition held and help them in their artistic last month in Malta. Sıla represented progress and professional careers. Turkey in the junior category (13-15 Born in Ankara in 1999, Sıla years old) of this highly competitive entered the Bilkent Faculty of Music event. She played several pieces and Performing Arts Music and during the competition, and was Ballet Primary School in 2004. She invited back to Malta to play at a studied with Deren Eryılmaz from concert later this year. 2007 to 2011 and is continuing her Organized by the European Centre studies with Elif Önal. She has given for Culture & Arts as part of the concerts in Turkey and in 2012 Valletta International Piano Festival, played in England at a concert at the competition aims to foster Chetham's Summer School for musical exchange and the Pianists. Bilkent News 2 NEWS Mayoral Candidate Mansur Yavaş Speaks Ex Libris: News from the Library at Bilkent “My Library in One Shot” & Library Lunchtime Lecture his week, Louisa Photograph by M. Furkan Akýncý Buckingham, assistant (LAW/IV) professor in the MA TEFL program and director of BilWrite,T will deliver the first Library Lunchtime Lecture for the spring semester: “Making Sense of Language Use: Shop Advertising in English in a Lingua Franca Context.” In her talk, Dr. Buckingham will examine how English is used to advertise goods and services on commercial signs on shops in a context of pronounced ethno- linguistic diversity in the Arabian Gulf. The analysis of linguistic features is based on data drawn from a corpus of over 1,600 signs photographed throughout Oman. Strategies used in this form of BY SERA ULUSOY (MAN/III) use of water facilities. advertising include formulations intended to enhance prominence and Bilkent News Mr. Yavaş then went on to discuss the issue of over-construction in increase explicitness, the n Monday, February 24, Ankara and how the city's Tunalı and lexicalization of cultural concepts, CHP (Republican People’s Kızılay areas could be turned into lexical innovation and borrowing, and lunchtime refreshments will be Party) candidate for mayor more pleasant and attractive districts, the use of foreign cultural referents. provided. of Ankara Mansur Yavaş giving examples such as Bağdat The use of English in this corpus As mentioned briefly in last week’s Ovisited Bilkent University with his Avenue in İstanbul. Among the issues reflects localized cultural values and Bilkent News, the Library is team and held a conference as a Mr. Yavaş mentioned, reduction of practices and may display the currently running a student guest of IDEA, the Innovative water prices and transportation influence of both Arabic and South photography competition entitled Asian English dialects. The extensive Development and Economics Society. problems received the most attention. “My Library in One Shot.” The use of particular innovative structures As Mr. Yavaş is both a candidate for While the topic of city management competition is open to all Bilkent or words suggests their widespread the upcoming mayoral election and a was a relatively serious one, Mr. Yavaş students, both undergraduate and successful former mayor of Beypazarı, acceptance and emergent nativization graduate. For detailed information managed to keep the audience’s within this genre. Dr. Buckingham’s his talk received great interest from interest by incorporating some about the competition and how to lecture will take place in the Main submit your photo, see our website: students and a number of faculty elements of humor, and criticizing his Campus Library Art Gallery on http://library.bilkent.edu.tr/ members as well. opponent in the elections, the current After informing the audience about Wednesday, March 5, at 12:40 p.m. libraryweek/competition.html. mayor Melih Gökçek, in a somewhat The talk will be in English and Good luck! the mayoral duties and city droll manner, referring especially to management overall, and also the the recently built “Welcome Gates” in current debt of Ankara, he moved on Ankara. Brand Academy to Begin March 12 to talk about the upcoming election Following his speech, Mr. Yavaş and elaborated on some of his projects answered questions from audience for Ankara, including his proposed members, and then got together with solution to the city’s transportation students and instructors for photos to problems, and price reductions for the be taken. CS Students Win 24-Hour Nonstop “Big Data Hackathon” BY ÖZGE TÜRKOĞLU (EEE/III) Bilkent News (Continued from Page 1) Winners of the competition included two Bilkent Computer Engineering (CS) students. During the Hackathon, which went on nonstop for 24 hours, approximately 200 university students worked to develop innovative software projects and coding techniques related to “big data.” Awards were given to the top three competitors in he 2014 Brand Academy, attending the academy. both the project development and organized by the Bilkent This series of programs is targeted coding categories. CS students Alim Brand Club, will start next at giving students practical knowledge Şükrücan Gökkaya and Ahmet Enis week, on March 12, and concerning skills important for Erdoğan took first and second place Manager Erkan Durdu; the general Twill continue through April 7. The success in the 21st-century business respectively in the coding category. manager of Bilkent Cyberpark, Canan academy consists of six personal world: teamwork, body language, The Hackathon was envisioned as Çakmakçı; Dr. Buğra Gedik of development programs, to take place presentation techniques, face reading, a way to promote industry-university Bilkent’s Department of Computer on six successive Wednesdays. Five of “brand and dream” and interview cooperation, and the closing Engineering; and Kerem Çağlar, a the six programs will each offer a techniques. ceremony brought together the partner in Solveka Software. separate certificate to participants, so Registration for the 2014 Brand representatives of several sectors to Entrepreneurs, senior managers that those who attend all of the Academy will end March 7. All present the awards to the winning and students had a chance to talk and sessions will obtain five certificates. Bilkent students are welcome to students: T. C. Prime Ministry Press mingle at a reception held to In addition, students taking attend. To register, please call (506) and Information Assistant General conclude the event.