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Music on Winter Sundays
Each year Macquarie University offers a varied program of Music in Macquarie Theatre at 2.30 pm on a Sunday. This year the program is:
1 June - TOPS Orchestra
15 June - Classical Hindustani instrumental music
22 June - NSW Police Band
29 June - City of Sydney Wind Ensemble
13 July - Dept of Contemporary Music
20 July - Jeanell Carrigan, Pianist with Goetz Richter, Violinist
3 August - Ku-ring-gai Male Choir
10 August - Daniel Herscovitch, Murray Khoury and Yvette Goodchild - Piano, Clarinet and Viola Recital
24 August - NSW Ambulance Service Band
The contact is Kerry Klujin on (02) 9850-7460.
Links with Macquarie Park Rotary
Macquarie University works closely with many local Rotary, Lions and other service organisations. A number of Macquarie University staff are members of the Macquarie Park Rotary Group, and the address for them is: macquarieparkrotary.org.au.
Recently Macquarie Park rotary is involved with many university activities including the LEGO / IBM Robotics Challenge, Pride of Workmanship Awards, Relay for Life, Orientation Day, and the Seimens Science Challenge.
Sculpture Under the Stars - 2008
Join us for an enchanting evening - twilight tours of the Macquarie University Sculpture Park.
Starting at 6pm for an hour length tour with commentary and anecdotes about the sculptures and the campus:
- Wednesdays 13th, 20th and 27th February
- Wednesdays 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th November
 Beacon by Errol Davis stainless steel, 1992 Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2002 |
 Confidence by Paul Hopmeier painted steel purchased in 2004 |
 Journey by John Robinson polished stainless steel, 1990 donated in 1991 |
We will meet at the Art Gallery in building E11A.
The tours will consist of a different walk through a section of the Sculpture Park each week. Our sculpture collection is exhibited across the entire campus, and has recently been divided up into four distinct walks for visitors - Western Walk, Central Circuit, Eastern Walk and Lakeside Trail - enabling a choice of duration spent amongst the sculptures.
A light supper will be served in the gallery at the conclusion of the tour (BYO wine).
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL- please contact Kirri Hill 9850 7437 or khill@vc.mq.edu.au.
Close-up on our museums
Two of our museum curators are featured in new videos on MQTV. In the first, Dr Andrew Simpson, Macquarie's Museums Education Officer, discusses the University's diverse range of museums, which are visited by more than 10,000 people a year. And Karl van Dyke, manager of Macquarie's Museum of Ancient Cultures, takes us on a fascinating journey through that unique museum. To view the videos click on the links below:
Macquarie students study local reserve
Third year Biology students at Macquarie University are learning the intricacies of vegetation survey and analysis techniques in a Thornleigh local bushland reserve. 'Each year we take several groups of students to this reserve to be taught how to accurately record vegetation and then statistically analyse their data' said unit co-ordinator Dr Michelle Leishman of Macquarie University's Department of Biological Sciences. The unit is jointly taught with the Department of Environment and Climate Change's Dr Ross Peacock, who ensures the techniques are consistent with the NSW Native Vegetation Mapping Standards and other procedures the students will use when they are employed in Government or the consulting industry.
It's a very diverse area of bushland, the students can see in excess of 300 different species of plants in an area of only 15 hectares, which makes it an ideal living laboratory for the Macquarie University students. We also have the opportunity to study the influence of geology in shaping the plant communities in the reserve, and its influence on the distribution of the endangered ecological community Blue Gum High Forest. Much of the reserve is in very good condition, due in no small part to the on-going efforts on Hornsby Shire Council's bushland management program and local volunteer bush regenerators. Data collected by the students is verified by a staff member before being forwarded to Department of Environment and Climate Change's vegetation database, from where it is made available to local government, consultants and researchers.
'We are incredibly fortunate to have such a diverse environment on our doorstep as a teaching resource, I've worked in other States and you can't find urban bushland environments this diverse only twenty minutes from campus' said Ross Peacock.
(from left) Third year students Harold Fragner and Lisa Westaway with Dr Michelle Leishman of Macquarie University and Dr Ross Peacock of Department of Environment and Climate Change. Photograph by Ray Duell, Department of Biological Sciences.