Community Engagement Events
Ryde Business EXPO
THE 2008 EXPO WILL BE HELD AT THE Stanford Grand Hotel North Ryde
The Macquarie University Stand will include the Division of Economic and Financial Studies ,Department of Engineering and Access Macquarie
Macquarie University Relay For Life
Relay For Life is an overnight event, where participant take it in turns to walk, skip or run their way around an oval, having fun, meeting other members of their community, and raising funds to defeat cancer.
Teams are encouraged to camp out overnight, theme their outfits and their tends, and do something about cancer in their community in a simple and social way. It's a great team-building, fun event.
This will be the first ever Macquarie University Relay for Life, and it will be an amazing opportunity to bring the university, local business and local resident community together for a great cause.
When: 20 - 21 September
Where: University Oval (Macquarie University Sports Fields over M@)
Why: To have an awesome time with mates and raise funds and awareness to fight cancer
What to do: Make a Team - register online; www.relay.cancercouncil.com.au and select 'Macquarie University' from the drop down menu
Keep informed: Join the facebook event: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7248094599
Join the mailing list: mqrelay@gmail.com
Be one of the brightest young minds at Macquarie
This year Macquarie will be attracting some of Australia's most talented students for the Brightest Young Minds Summit.
Held in July, the Brightest Young Minds Summit brings together 100 of the most creative, energetic young minds in the country to solve some of Australia's pressing problems.
WAR & PEACE ~ IN PERFECT HARMONY!
Macquarie University Singers will present three magnificent choral works reflecting the theme of War & Peace in its next major concert on Saturday 31st May.
Download the Press Release PDF
15 May - 7 July
Opening 21 May 6-8pm
By Andrew Frost
Looking Out through recent video art explores the notion of identity as a construct mediated by contemporary culture and society. Manifold forms of identity emerging within Looking Out seemingly dissolve the boundaries between reality, ideology, and fiction.
The role of the performative body manifest within each individual artist's work encapsulates the nuances of self as an embodied lived experience that can be recreated, renewed and energised to name but a few.
Further information is at the Art Gallery website.
Business At Macquarie
Macquarie University actively supports the local business community and works closely with the Ryde Business Forum (info@rydebusiness.com.au).
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MGSM, Access Macquarie, Economics and Financial Studies Department and the Community Engagement hosted the May 2008 Business After House event, which showcased the wealth of learning and research opportunities available to both individuals and companies.
The guest speakers were: Professor Roy Green, Dean of MGSM, supported by Kate Hughes, researcher into the Pacific Corridor Scoping Study; Professor Ed Davis, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Financial Studies; and Ben Smith from Access Macquarie.
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Guests were taken through the importance of the Pacific Corridor, which is arguably the technological hub of NSW and Australia. Speakers also covered the importance of cluster research, the value of human capital, and the importance of not just networking with overseas organisations but also networking with businesses 'just down the street'.
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U@MQ provided strong support for the event through donating 2 months free membership to the state-of-the-art Gymnasium and Sports Centre for three lucky attendees.
LEGO Engineering Conference
ICT Innovations Centre at Macquarie University
Eureka Prize Tackles Climate Change
High school students will seek home-grown solutions to climate change in the new Eureka Prize for Action Against Climate Change.
Sponsored by Macquarie University, students will measure their CO2 emissions at home or school and suggest ways to reduce it.
Results must be scientifically measured (it is a science prize after all!) and presented on-line.
How students present their online results is up to them - the more creative the better. They could write a song, do a dance or rap. Produce an animation, short film or website. Star in a play, debate or discussion.
How the presentation is made is not the critical issue. What matters is how effectively the chosen Action Against Climate Change message is conveyed - and that the presentation is available for viewing online.
Winners of the Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Action Against Climate Change will share over $11,000 worth of cash and prizes.
Professor Tim Flannery is the patron of this competition and says: "You would hope that people see what needs to be done. It's not rocket science. It's not difficult. It's not even all that costly. It's actually about the way you think about the world".
Macquarie University hosted the 2008 Australian Intervarsity Debating Championships
The Australian Intervarsity Debating Championships has been the prize of the Australian debating circuit since 1990. The Macquarie University Debating Society is committed to delivering a professional, exciting and competitive tournament. Read more at the web site.
Macquarie Singers
Above: Photos taken at North Ryde RSL where the Macquarie Singers provided a group of carol singers over the whole week leading up to and including Christmas Eve. In the second photo two RSL visitors joined the MUS choir in the singing - one of the them was a member of the Sydney Welsh choir. The choir has been invited to do the same again in 2008. The woman in the red top standing near the keyboard is Jill Kaldor, a member of MUS, who organised and conducted the small group.
Macquarie University Singers 40th Anniversary Concert, which was held on Saturday 27th October.
The Small Writ Large Travelling Exhibition at Eden Gardens
The Small Writ Large exhibition surveys the work of foremost photographer, artist and scientist Ron Oldfield, consisting of material that reflects the wondrous union of art and science. Australian flowers, mosses and other works of scientific investigation provide a startling display of colour and form coupled with high scientific and aesthetic merit, making this exhibition one not to be missed.
Displayed at Eden Gardens, 301-307 Lane Cove Road North Ryde.
Ron Oldfield and Caroline Lord (Marketing Manager, Eden Gardens)
Macquarie To Host Robotics Challenge
Macquarie University, in conjunction with IBM and Lego, is hosting the annual First Lego League challenge on Sunday December 2nd. Local schools will be participating in a climate challenge using robots to demonstrate how to create a more environmentally friendly world, utilizing green power, solar power and other sustainable technologies.
Macquarie Mentors (James, Hamed, Nina, Xin, Elizabeth and Colin, First Lego League Coordinator)
Balmain Sinfonia concert - Sunday 16th September 2007
2006 Community Engagement Awards
Each year, Macquarie University presents a number of awards to its staff members for outstanding contributions towards Macquarie's strategic mission in engaging with the community at large and promoting access to high-quality scholarship and services. The Outstanding Service Award mark a long-term commitment and achievement of members in working with the community. The 2006 Awards were presented to:
Dr Michelle Arrow, Department of Modern History, Division of Humanities
This award recognises Dr Arrow's work with secondary schools, students and teachers as well as her achievements communicating her research to non-academics via different media and as an historian with community and government organisations.
Dr Arrow specialises in twentieth-century Australian history, history of popular culture in Australia and the United States, history and media, applied history, and Australian women playwrights, and is currently writing From Blue Hills to Big Brother: A History of Popular Culture in Australia since the Fifties.
Professor Chris Patel, Department of Accounting, Division of Economics and Financial Studies
Professor Patel has worked to promote high quality teaching with the National University of Samoa and the Samoan Society of Accountants, with three Malaysian universities - the Universiti Teknologi Mara, the Universiti Sains Malaysia, and the Universiti Utara Malaysia - with the University of Fiji and the University of Papua New Guinea.
In addition, Chris is on the editorial boards of six refereed journals in his field which focus on accounting in emerging countries. Part of his own published research has been on the importance of economic, social, political and cultural factors in designing relevant and useful accounting systems.
Dr Susan Wright, Department of Accounting, Division of Economics and Financial Studies
Dr Wright has been teaching in the field of finance and accounting at Macquarie University since July 1985 and in recent years has focused on financial statement analysis at both the undergraduate level, where she lectures classes of up to 500 students, and at postgraduate level, where teaching can be one-to-one.
In addition, at different times she has occupied a number of leadership positions within her Department, including Undergraduate Program Director, Deputy Head of Department and Acting Joint Head of Department. She has also been her Division's representative on the Academic Senate, a member of the Division's Equal Employment Opportunity and Workplace Culture Committee, and on the Division's Committees for Staffing and for Marketing. She is also currently part of a team developing ethics education across the accounting curriculum.
Dr Wright's service to her profession includes holding the position as an elected Board Member of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, for which she is currently the Treasurer.
Symposium - Jorge Luis Borges: English Literature and Other Inquisitions
Macquarie University Humanities Department and the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Development and External Relations hosted a prestigious Symposium concerning Jorge Luis Borges: English Literature and Other Inquisitions, with the Consulate General of Argentina.
The Symposium was held in the Macquarie University Art Gallery and included many original works from the famed Argentinian writer himself. Speakers included the Ambassador of Argentina, Mr Pedro Villagra Delgado, and the Consul General of Argentina, Mr Pedro Colombi.
Also present at the Symposium were members of the Borges Association, including Dr Alejandro Vaccaro, the President of the Borges Symposium, Dr Roberto Alifano and Dr Alejandro Roemmers. Australian speakers included Jeronimo Ledesma, Dr Stephen Gregory, Dr Carmel Davis, Dr Rex Butler, Dr Jeffrey Browitt, Gary Maller, Dr Estela Valverde and Guillermo Anad.
Abstracts of papers are available from Dr Estela Valverde, Department of European Languages, Macquarie University, who was instrumental in organising the event.