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We are proud to announce that our Department of Linguistics has risen to the 151–200 band in the QS World University Rankings, climbing up from the 201–250 band last year. Congratulations to our faculty, students, and alumni!
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Boğaziçi University Translation and Interpreting Studies Student Betül Mulbay Receives First Place Award
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Boğaziçi University Students Create an Earthquake Terminology Dictionary in 30 Languages
Developed under the leadership of Boğaziçi University Department of Translation and Interpreting undergraduate students Abdullah Sadık Kuralay, Betül Mulbay, and Ahmet Ergün, the multilingual earthquake glossary brings together key phrases for communication in earthquake-affected areas as well as terms related to search and rescue and first aid. The project aims to minimize communication barriers between international rescue teams and local volunteers operating in disaster zones. While work is underway to transform the database—currently available in 30 languages—into a mobile application, plans are also being made to expand it to cover other disasters such as floods and wildfires.
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BAGEP 2025 Award for Boğaziçi University Department of Literature Faculty Member Asst. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Oktay!
The results of the 2025 Young Scientists Award Program (BAGEP), organized by the Science Academy to encourage and support outstanding young scientists in their research, have been announced.
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“Literary” Machine Translation by Boğaziçi University Scientists
Researchers from Boğaziçi University have begun working on a new machine translation algorithm designed to preserve the translator’s style in literary texts. Associate Professor Mehmet Şahin, Vice Chair of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University, stated that this project is the first of its kind in Türkiye and marks an exciting development for the world of translation.
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Full Scholarship from Stanford for Boğaziçi Graduate Büşra's Doctoral Studies
Büşra Marşan, a 2020 graduate of Boğaziçi University’s Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, will continue her academic journey at Stanford University—one of the world’s leading higher education institutions—after completing her master’s degree in linguistics at Boğaziçi University.
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Prestigious Award from Canada for the “Lives in Turkish” Database
The “Lives in Turkish” database, developed by Dr. Ceyda Elgül, Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University, has been honored with the “Early Career Researcher Honor Award” as part of the 2022 Open Scholarship Awards organized by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI), one of the leading institutions in its field.
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Nazım's Story in Digital Form
The new project of Boğaziçi University’s Nâzım Hikmet Culture and Art Research Center, the website “The Story of Nâzım,” has been launched. Written, visual, and audio documents, analyses, and informational texts about the poet are now accessible online to all readers.
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An Award for the Project Supervised by Prof. Dr. Sumru Özsoy and Dr. Kadir Gökgöz
The project supervised by Kadir Gökgöz and A. Sumru Özsoy from the Department of Linguistics won first place at the Türkiye Accessibility Awards.
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TÜBİTAK Incentive Award in Social Sciences Goes to Dr. Gaye Soley
As part of the “TÜBİTAK Science, Special, Service, and Incentive Awards” program, which aims to support research and development activities in scientific and technological fields and to provide opportunities for the training and advancement of scientists and researchers, Dr. Gaye Soley, faculty member of the Department of Psychology at Boğaziçi University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, received the 2020 TÜBİTAK Incentive Award in the field of social sciences for her internationally recognized, high-quality research on perceptual and socio-cognitive development within developmental psychology.
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What role does the level of education play in individuals' marriage behavior?
It is a well-known fact that major life decisions such as marriage and having children are closely related to one’s level of education and socioeconomic profile. Dr. Taylan Acar, faculty member at the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University, has studied how the educational levels of women, men, and couples influence marriage behavior in Turkey. Interpreting the data from his research, Acar notes: “It is now unlikely that a university-educated woman would marry a man who says, ‘Don’t work,’ ‘Don’t see your friends,’ ‘Don’t go out without telling me,’ or ‘Give me three children.’”
