Research News
Supporting Mental Health Month
What do you get when a café with a charitable philosophy meets with a university centre looking for novel ways to raise funds for continued research into anxiety and depression? You get a ‘Coffee for a Cause’. Piccolo Me, the café in the Australian Hearing Hub, is run by brothers Roy and Charlie El Hachem. They partnered with the Centre for Emotional Health (CEH) on 21 October, pledgi...
Personal values affect proactivity at work
Macquarie University alumni recently participated in a survey that may help shape the way candidates are recruited for roles during periods of business uncertainty. The research, by Department of Psychology Senior Lecturer Dr Ben Searle and student Dylan Fuller, found that when there is uncertainty in the workplace, individuals who value security are less likely to show initiative in improv...
Embalming study ‘rewrites’ key chapter in Egyptian history
Macquarie researchers have discovered new evidence to suggest that mummification started in ancient Egypt 1500 years earlier than previously thought. Traditional theories on ancient Egyptian mummification suggest that in prehistory — the Late Neolithic and Predynastic periods between c. 4500 and 3100 B.C. — bodies were desiccated naturally through the action of the hot, dry desert sand....
Helping close the gap in Indigenous communities
Young children from rural and remote Indigenous communities are making a more confident start to school life thanks to new early numeracy programs that not only enhance their learning, but build their confidence too. “I have a real interest in supporting quality early education and more specifically ‘Closing the Gap’ in numeracy achievement for Indigenous children, particularly in the...
When science meets philosophy: understanding the ethical implications of overdiagnosis
Macquarie University's Professor Wendy Rogers is taking a philosophical approach to the issue of overdiagnosis in the healthcare sector. Overdiagnosis refers to a range of healthcare activities or interventions that end up harming rather than helping patients. It can occur when the definitions of disease are widened, when harmless or clinically insignificant lesions are diagnosed or treated...
Biotech company relocates scientific headquarters to campus
Australian biotechnology company Minomic International Ltd has relocated its Australian scientific headquarters from Frenchs Forest to the Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University Hospital. The company is hoping to gain approval for its new prostate cancer screening technology later this year. “Our company has already conducted extensive trials of this technology ...