Alisbah Awards
Bilsel Alisbah Fellowship Award Presented
Each year, one or more Bilsel Alisbah Fellowships are awarded to MA students in the Faculty of Education’s Curriculum and Instruction with Teaching Certificate (CITE) program.
This year’s recipient, Deniz Kaygusuz, received the award at a ceremony held via Zoom on March 30 for demonstrating outstanding potential in her academic and professional endeavours.
Established in support of Bilkent University’s efforts to prepare a “new breed” of teachers with advanced qualifications via the CITE program, the fellowships honor the memory of Bilsel Alisbah (1937–2017), and are the second category of fellowship to have been instituted at the university through the generosity of the Alisbah family.
In 1998, Bilsel Alisbah, former lecturer at Bilkent University, had begun presenting fellowships to Department of Mathematics students each year in memory of his father, Prof. Orhan Alisbah, one of Turkey’s best-known mathematicians. Following Bilsel Alisbah’s passing in 2017, the family decided to present another fellowship, in Bilsel Alisbah’s memory, for Faculty of Education students.
5th Bilsel Alisbah Award Recipient
Previous Recipients
2020-21
- Göksu Kılıç (2020-21)
- Farid Musayev (2020-21)
2019-20
- Burçin Arslan Yılmaz (2019-20)
- Merve Özvatan (2019-20)
2018-19
- Özlem Keser (2018-19)
- Dilara Toplu (2018-19)
2017-18
- Merve Erentuğ (2017-18)
- Ahmet Şimşir (2017-18)