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Community Engagement and Outstanding Service Awards

The Vice-Chancellor is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 Community Engagement and Outstanding Service Awards. The Macquarie University Community Engagement Awards are to encourage and reward outstanding achievements in this core area of Macquarie's strategic mission - to engage with the community at large and to promote access to high quality scholarship and services.

The Community Engagement Award winners are:

• The Indigenous Science Program
  for addressing the wishes of Aboriginal elders in rural Northern NSW for them to motivate their Indigenous youth to complete their High School studies and consider further educational opportunities.

• The Mia Mia Child and Family Study Centre
  for the provision of an extremely high quality program which is based on the intellectual pursuit for excellence in early childhood education and care, through collaborative and individual research and pedagogical documentation.

• Professor Alanna Nobbs (Ancient History)
  for her work bringing Ancient History to the community at large.

• Jonathan Gaston (Anxiety Research Unit)
  for his directorship of the Macquarie University Anxiety Research Unit, which is a research, teaching, and service clinic that provides assessment and treatment to about 500 clients per year.

• Dr Coral Kemp (Special Education Centre)
  for her work initiating the community based Special Teaching and Research (STaR) project to enable infants and young children with disabilities or special learning needs to receive effective instruction.

• Associate Professor Deborah Richards (Computing)
  for her work encouraging participation in the sciences, and providing vital links between students and the ICT industry.

• Robin Walsh (Library)
  for his work with the Lachlan Macquarie Room and the Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archive and other collaborative projects.

Outstanding Service Awards mark the long-term commitment and achievement of members of staff to their work at Macquarie University. The nominees for these awards will have made exceptional contributions to the University not recognised by awards for teaching, research or community outreach.

The Outstanding Service Award winners are:

• Dr Peter Freeman (Research Office)
  for his work in the development of research management and the establishment of what is now known as the Research Unit.

• Associate Professor Dan O'Brien (Education)
  for over 30 years of service in teaching education, language and literacy.

• Associate Professor Catriona Mackenzie (Philosophy)
  for her excellence in teaching and contribution to the development of an ethics framework on campus.

• David Westcott (Actuarial Studies)
  for 35 years of service to the University and contribution to the development of the world's first professionally accredited Actuarial Studies program.

• Associate Professor Pamela Coutts (Education)
  for her contribution to the undergraduate education program, and her work with teaching and learning programs in particular.

We would like to congratulate these staff for this significant achievement. Prizes will be awarded by the Vice-Chancellor in a ceremony at the end of March.

2008 Community Engagement and Outstanding Service Awards

Specifications

The Macquarie University Community Engagement Awards are to encourage and reward outstanding achievements in this core area of Macquarie's strategic mission - to engage with the community at large and to promote access to high quality scholarship and services.

Outstanding Service Awards mark the long-term commitment and achievement of members of staff to their work at Macquarie University. The nominees for these awards will have made exceptional contributions to the University not recognised by awards for teaching, research or community outreach.

Character of the Award

The Community Engagement Award and Outstanding Service Awards comprises a plaque. A record of the award and the citation will be posted on the Macquarie University website.

In addition to receiving the Award, the recipient receives an invitation to the evening event at which the award is presented for themselves and three guests.

Who is eligible for nomination?

Recipients of the Award can be a person or group. The case for an award may rest on a combination of engagement and service.

How are nominations assessed?

Members of staff may put themselves forward for an award, or be nominated by a colleague. The nomination should include an account of the outstanding contribution in engagement or service, a short curriculum vitae, a supporting statement from the relevant Dean or Head of Office, and the names of three members of staff who may be approached to support the nomination.

Nominations should be sent to Steven Pringle (steven.pringle@vc.mq.edu.au), Director Community Engagement, Level 2 BD Building, 4 Research Drive, Macquarie University, North Ryde 2109.

The closing date for receipt of nominations is Friday 7 Nov 2008.

If you would like more information, please call Steven Pringle on ext. 4270.

Suggested for Inclusion in Community Engagement Award Nominations

• Name
• Position
• Department
• Division
• Number of Years at Macquarie University
• Number of Community Engagement Projects Worked On
• Nature of Community Engagement Projects
• Synopsis
• Outcomes
• Referee Members of Staff 1
• Referee Member of Staff 2
• Referee Member of Staff 3
• Dean of Division Support
• Indigenous and Disadvantaged Persons Involvement
• Short-term or long-term nature of the project
• Partnerships involved (other Universities, community groups)
• CV

Eureka Prize

The Eureka Prize is the premier Science prize in Australia, coordinated by the Australian Museum in Sydney. Macquarie University sponsors the Eureka Schools Prize for Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences. The 2007 winners are:

• First prize presented to Robbie Bishop-Taylor from Great Lakes College, Tuncurry
• Prizes presented to Karina Hall from Emmanuel Anglican College, Ballina & Shaun Williams, Keebra Park High School

Professor Schwartz committed Macquarie to a further three years funding for the prize, and the Macquarie University Community Engagement Unit is consulting with local high schools as to refreshing the prize next year to include an increased focus on science and multimedia.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Steven Schwartz, Karina Hall, Robbie Bishop-Taylor and Shaun Williams	Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Jim Piper, Robbie Bishop-Taylor, Shaun Williams, Karina Hall, Professor Elizabeth More AM, Rowan Spicer, Angus Hutton, Adam Smith (finalists from Newton Moore Senior High School, Bunbury)
Vice-Chancellor Professor Steven Schwartz & Robbie Bishop-Taylor