(L-R) Lindie Clark, Anneke Rowe Courtemanche and Caroline Reid at the 2018 Study NSW International Student Awards.

Every month we recognise some of the impressive achievements within the Macquarie community.

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Macquarie shines at NSW International Student Awards

Macquarie’s Global Leadership Program (GLP) team has added another trophy to their cabinet, having been announced joint winners of the Community Engagement Award at the 2018 Study NSW International Student Awards, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art last Tuesday night.

Vidushi Bhagwanani was also flying the Macquarie flag on the night, as a finalist in the NSW International Student of the Year (Higher Education) category. The Bachelor of Engineering student from India is the first women and the first international student to be elected president of the Macquarie University Engineering Society.

(caption: GLP Coordinator Caroline Reid (left) and GLP Manager Anneke Rowe at the 2018 NSW International Student Awards.)

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PACE project shortlisted in the 2018 ACEN Awards

Macquarie’s innovative approach to work-integrated learning has been recognised by peak body the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN), with the University’s collaboration with Malaysian Indigenous rights organisation PACOS named as a finalist in the 2018 ACEN Awards.

Since 2010 more than 65 Macquarie undergraduate students from disciplines including Human Geography, Law and Sociology have travelled to Sabah to work alongside PACOS staff. Students have contributed to organisational and community change by documenting Indigenous knowledge, evaluating violations of Native Customary Rights and working with communities to manage resources and develop training initiatives.

PACE’s Kate Lloyd will be representing the University when the winners are announced at the ACEN National Conference this week.

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3MT win for Seline Petit (Faculty of Human Sciences)

Congratulations to Seline Petit who was crowned runner up at the 2018 Asia-Pacific finals of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, announced at the University of Queensland last week.

Seline’s presentation – Can the Brain Speak When the Mouth Can’t? – won first prize at Macquarie University 3MT competition on September 17. Other winners in the Macquarie round were Lara McGirr (The Lived Experience of Training Doctors During Emerging Adulthood), Julien Milleseau (Sound Acquisition in Children With Hearing Loss) and Peiyao Li (Trust on Twitter).

Seline Petit (fourth from left) with other winners and judges of the Macquarie University Three Minute Thesis competition.

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AIHI’s win at the Australian Health Informatics Conference

Congratulations to Associate Professor Melissa Baysari of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI). Her paper on computerised dose prediction software received Branko Cesnik Award for Best Academic and Scientific Paper at the Australian Health Informatics Conference in Sydney last month. HIC is Australia’s premier digital health, health informatics and e-health conference.

Two other finalists from AIHI were Dr Ling Li and Dr Valentina Lichtner.

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Graduate follows in Sir Winston Churchill’s footsteps

Recent Macquarie graduate Simon Massey has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship. The Fellowships – named after Sir Winston Churchill – are awarded to a select few Australians who display “extraordinary abilities and aspirations”.

Simon’s program aims to “transform and streamline strategic capabilities for school infrastructure planning” and will involve collaboration with key researchers from Google, Sweden and the USA.

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