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At Macquarie University we recognise that our investment today in research and innovation, and in creating a culture of support and recognition of new ideas, will lay the groundwork for future success. The Innovation Awards celebrate the achievements of some of our brightest and most inventive people.
Macquarie University celebrates the achievements of some of our brightest and most distinguished students and alumni. Our winners include students in their very first year at Macquarie and undergraduates who, after several years of hard work, are studying at honours level. And they include alumni who have made important contributions to their professions and their communities. These alumni demonstrate what it means to study at Macquarie. Higher education is not simply about developing narrow abilities. It is about helping graduates to be wise as well as knowledgeable. In a fast-changing global economy, we need the best research and as many highly educated people as we can get. But universities should be more than drivers of the economy. They should have moral and ethical goals too.
Macquarie University is a major Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it enjoys a beautiful 126 hectare, park-like campus close to the high-technology corridor running from Sydney's north-west to the city.
The University enrols about 35,000 students across four faculties - Business and Economics, Arts, Science, and Human Sciences -- and employs more than 2000 staff. Macquarie is an international university, with 12,000 of its current students coming from more than 117 countries, and alumni found worldwide.
Also affiliated with the University are several research centres, schools and institutes including the highly-regarded Macquarie Graduate School of Management.
Macquarie has been consistently ranked in the top 10 universities in Australia and among the top 200-300 universities in the world by various sources.
The University is led by Vice-Chancellor Professor Steven Schwartz, who has previously served as Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University in London and of Murdoch University in Western Australia.
Macquarie is a modern university with many new facilities resulting from a $1 billion infrastructure and capital works program together with Government and private investment from the likes of Cochlear Limited, which has relocated its global headquarters to the campus. Other recent buildings and projects include a train station and sport and aquatic centre, Australia's first post-fellowship, sub-specialty medical school and the Macquarie University Hospital.
Prominent alumni include former and current state and national politicians such as Peter Andren, John Faulkner, Helen Sham-Ho, Eric Roozendaal, Peter Debnam and Tanya Plibersek; entertainers such as three founding members of The Wiggles and comedians Adam Hills and Chris Lilley; business leaders including CEO of Deutsche Bank Australia and New Zealand, Chum Darval and Chairwoman of Telstra Catherine Livingstone; and journalists Miranda Devine, Jeff McMullen and Hugh Riminton.
Macquarie University is a major Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it enjoys a beautiful 126 hectare, park-like campus close to the high-technology corridor runn...
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