Michael McRobbie is the eighteenth president of Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

. He took office on July 1, 2007.

Before his appointment as president, McRobbie served as interim provost

Provost (education)

A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada and Australia, the equivalent of a pro-vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland....

 and vice president of academic affairs of the Bloomington campus. Prior to this, he held the position of vice president for research and vice president for information technology. His focus is on increasing external funding for programs and research. He has been a driving force in securing millions of dollars in grants for life science initiatives.

McRobbie was made a Sagamore of the Wabash

Sagamore of the Wabash

The Sagamore of the Wabash is an honorary award created by the state of Indiana during the term of Governor Ralph F. Gates . A tri-state meeting was to be held in Louisville with officials from Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Aides to Gates learned that the governor of Kentucky was preparing...

, the highest honor the state can bestow, in 2007 by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniels

Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. is the 49th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his first four-year term as governor on January 10, 2005, and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin on November 4, 2008. Previously, he was the Director of the...

.

McRobbie is from Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Australia

Australia

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. He is a widower and recently married Laurie Burns. He has three children and three stepchildren.

Curriculum Vitae

Name : Michael A. McRobbie

Date of birth : October 11, 1950 (Melbourne, Australia)

Married Status : Widower married Laurie Burns, 3 children & 3 stepchildren.

Educational Qualifications:

BSc. (1st Class Honor) University of Queensland (1974)

PhD, Australian National University (1976)

Career experience:

Year	Achievement
2008	• Honorary Doctor of Science by SungKyunKwan University, Korea.
2007 July 1	• IU’s 18th President
2007	• Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Queensland • Sagamore of the Wabash, the highest honor the state can bestow, in 2007 by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels
2006	• Interim Provost and VP Academic Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington • collaborative research deal with Tsinghua University in Beijing • landing the nation’s fastest university-owned supercomputer • Member of the Board of ChaCha
2003	• VP Research, Indiana University • Securing $53 million grant for METACyt • Established New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program
1999	• Founded IU’s Pervasive Technology Laboratories • Premier 100IT leaders by Computer World Magazine • Played a major role in the creation of IU's School of Informatics
1997	• VP Information Technology and CIO, Indiana University • Directed the development of I-Light, the management of the Internet2 Abilene network • Arrived IU from Australia
1996	• Co-founder of Asia Pacific Advanced Network(APAN)
1990–1996	• Professor: Information Technology, Australian National University

• led the development of a high-speed, integrated information-technology system that links all eight campuses

• Professor of information science and CEO of Cooperative Research Centre of Advanced Computational Systems :Principal investigator of National Science Foundation

• Member of the Boards of Clarian Health Partners

• Working with industry, research and government organization in Asia, especially Japan.

• Professor of cognitive science, computer science, informatics, and philosophy

• Adjunct professor of library and information science on IU Bloomington Campus

• Professor of computer technology in Purdue School of Engineering

• Professor of philosophy both at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis(IUPUI)

• Honorary member of Alliance of Distinguished and Titled professor

• Honorary member of Australian Academy of Humanities

IU’s first lady Laurie Burns McRobbie

• native of Michigan

• worked as a technologist work for the last 20

• Executives director of member and partner relations for Internet2

• Adjunct faculty member in IU’s School of Informatics

• Background in humanities and long involvement in women’s issues in community such as Middle Way House

• Promote and advance scientific and mathematical literacy

• Both avid readers especially history

• Both collect arts and attend concerts, operas, and plays as they can

External links

• Indiana University Presidential Search

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