2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award winner Adam Joyce used his prize to attend two conferences on light pollution.

Do you work with or know someone who goes above and beyond what’s expected of them and is doing an exceptional job at work? Then nominate them!

The 2019 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards for Professional Staff are now open for nominations, giving you a chance to acknowledge those colleagues (individuals or teams) who do great things in the areas of:

• Outstanding service
• Collaboration and connection
• Innovation and process improvement
• Leadership excellence

Award recipients are given a $4000 grant to be spent on professional development for the individual or team. Examples may include a course, conference or accreditation.

Nominations are open until 11:59 pm on 26 July.

In 2017 Adam Joyce, a professional staff member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, won a Collaboration and Connection award for his critical role in the Dark Sky Project, aimed at preserving the night sky by reducing the light pollution created by modern infrastructure.

“I used my grant to attend two conferences on light pollution: Riding the Lightwave of Technology, which was held at Coonabarabran’s Siding Spring Observatory and was the first of its kind in Australia, and the ALAN (Artificial Light at Night Conference) 2018 conference in Snowbird, Utah,” says Adam.

“My being able to interact with the community and create new connections will hopefully build strong relationships in the future for Macquarie and help work towards understanding and solving the problem of light pollution.”

Know someone like Adam whom you’d like to recognise? Learn more and nominate by 26 July.