University News
Walking down memory lane
The Jubilee celebrations have given staff and former students a chance to explore the history and discover new things about the University they thought they knew so well. Take the University’s main walkway through campus. At almost one kilometre long, it is affectionately known as ‘Wally’s Walk’, and was named as a tribute to Dr Walter V Abraham, Macquarie University’s Architect P...
Exciting new facilities open on campus
Macquarie has recently unveiled innovative learning spaces that promise to transform students’ experience of university life, from the way they study, to the way news is produced. Macquarie University Spatial Experience (MUSE) The old library has been transformed with the opening of MUSE, a new social learning space custom-designed to give students a place where the boisterous, social ...
PACE Prizes awarded to outstanding students for great experiences
Eleven prizes were awarded to exemplary individuals and groups at the 2013 Professor Judyth Sachs Participation and Community Engagement (PACE) Prizes ceremony. The awards, held in May, celebrated the mutually beneficial outcomes achieved for our partners and students, and were given to students for outstanding achievement in their PACE activities. Recipients included social sciences studen...
Queen’s Birthday Honours recognise Macquarie figures
A number of well-known Macquarie University figures were among those celebrated in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Professor Jim Piper, who retired as Deputy-Vice-Chancellor (Research) last year, became a member (AM) in the general division “for significant service to tertiary education, particularly through research in applied laser physics”. Vice-Chancellor S Bruce Dowton paid trib...
Art Gallery exhibition wins prestigious award
Macquarie University's Art Gallery won a prestigious MAGNA (Museums and Galleries National Award) at the Museums Australia National Conference in May. The award was given in the temporary/travelling exhibition category for the Art Gallery's Affinities: 7 Museums, 50 objects exhibition, and beat competition from the War Memorial and National Gallery. The MAGNAs recognise excellent work natio...
2014 Queens Birthday Honours
Companion of the Order of Australia Dr Megan Clark AC For eminent service to scientific research and development through fostering innovation, to science administration through strategic leadership roles, and to the development of public policy for technological sciences. The Honourable Barry Jones AC For eminent service to the community as a leading intellectual in Australian public life, t...