Main photo: Vice-Chancellor S Bruce Dowton and Vikram Singh of Tata Consultancy Services, at the recent signing of the University’s new research partnership.
Every month we celebrate some of the impressive achievements in the Macquarie community. Got something to share for next month? Tell us.
Arrow hits the literary target
Congratulations to historian Professor Michelle Arrow from the Faculty of Arts, whose book The Seventies has been shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
A social history of the decade that shaped modern Australia, The Seventies captures the emergence of the women’s and gay liberation movements amid the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, which brought people’s intimate lives into the public sphere.
The winners of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are due to be announced on 27 April.
Putting geography on the map
Geography educator and Macquarie PhD candidate Susan Caldis has been appointed an official STEM Ambassador for Science and Technology Australia, which will see her influencing public policy to improve geography education in Australia.
“Geography gives us a deeper understanding of the interaction between humans and the environment, and bridges the gap between sciences and social sciences,” Susan says. “These skills are vital for creating innovative solutions in areas like food security, alternative or clean energies, and mitigation of drought, fire and floods.”
A very good Fellow
Already freshly Knighted by the French National Order of Merit (Awards and Recognition, November 2019), Macquarie neuroscientist Professor Gilles Guillemin can now also proudly call himself a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW – one of the oldest learned societies in the Southern Hemisphere.
Fellowship to the Society recognises substantial contributions by residents of NSW to fields within science, art, literature and philosophy.
Macquarie historians Professor Ray Laurence and Associate Professor Ronika Power were made Fellows of the Society last year. Many other notable Macquarie Professors can be found among the Society’s Fellows, including:
· Sean Brawley (Pro Vice-Chancellor, Programs and Pathways)
· Anne Castles (cognitive science)
· Katherine Demuth (linguistics)
· Karu Esselle (engineering)
· Naguib Kanawati (ancient history)
· Sakkie Pretorius (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research)
· Ron Rapee (psychology)
· David Throsby (economics)
· Simon Turner (geochemistry)
Research partnership to advance AI in financial services
Macquarie has announced a new research partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), providing students with opportunities to gain valuable real-world experience in the frontier application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial services sector.
The project will be led by Dr Amin Beheshti, Director of Macquarie’s AI-enabled Processes Research Centre and Head of the Data Analytics Research Lab, together with TCS’ Srini Goluguri.
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