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MQ Speed
Macquarie became the first Australian university to send a team to Battle Mountain, Nevada, to compete in the 2017 World Human-Powered Speed Challenge. It’s just one way the School of Engineering is powering up and connecting its students with globally significant issues. The MQ Speed team, comprising Macquarie engineering students, used state-of-the-art computational modelling, materials...
Wetsuits that hide humans from sharks
A discovery about the eyesight of sharks has led to a real-life application that could save lives. Western Australia was reeling from a series of fatal shark attacks on surfers, swimmers and scuba divers when Dr Nathan Hart teamed up with a marine technology company to develop, with the support of WA government funding, a shark-deterrent wetsuit. Hart, now an Associate Professo...
Postgraduate Studies in Security and Criminology
At no other point in history has our world experienced a set of security challenges to the extent it does today. Challenges such as international terrorism and cybercrime rank among the most pressing issues of our time and have a major impact on the lives of millions of people throughout the world. For example, 90% of Australian organisations faced some form of attempted or successful cyber securi...
Forget the couch: online therapy works just as well
More than 80,000 people around Australia have accessed anxiety and depression assessment services since 2013 through Macquarie’s revolutionary digital mental health portal, the MindSpot Clinic, which is fully funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. The clinic now also delivers interventions to help people with chronic pain manage their disability and distress. ...
Happy Lunar New Year
Macquarie University wishes you and your family good health, happiness and success for the 2018 Lunar New Year....
Law school campaign launch
On 6 November, a crowd of alumni, University staff and leaders, and notable law professionals gathered at Sydney’s Royal Mint in Macquarie Street to see the design for Macquarie University’s new law building unveiled and its name announced as the ‘Michael Kirby Building’. “I can see no finer way to commemorate the contributions of Michael Kirby as a member of the Macquarie Univers...