Science/Technology/Environment
Organisational psychology makes life a breeze for Macquarie graduate
When James Breeze completed a Master of Organisational Psychology at Macquarie in 2000, he never imagined it would give him the freedom to live in Bali, dividing his time between business, family and surfing. Today Breeze runs three companies from Bali, two based in Singapore and one in Sydney. His business, Objective Experience, creates business insights using eye tracking technology for m...
Macquarie’s Professor Lesley Hughes wins Eureka Prize
Professor Lesley Hughes. Photo by Chris StaceyMacquarie University climate change scientist Professor Lesley Hughes has won the 2014 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research. Professor Hughes has been researching and communicating the science of climate change for more than 20 years. She was appointed commissioner of the independent gover...
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 ...
2014 Queens Birthday Honours
Companion of the Order of Australia Dr Megan Clark AC For eminent service to scientific research and development through fostering innovation, to science administration through strategic leadership roles, and to the development of public policy for technological sciences. The Honourable Barry Jones AC For eminent service to the community as a leading intellectual in Australian public life, t...
Research with the power to change the world
Macquarie University has long fostered scientific research that is interdisciplinary, collaborative and open to commercial patnerships. Over the years that philosophy has paid off in exciting and unexpected ways, with game-changing innovations, cutting-edge medical research with the potential to save countless lives, and new ways of looking into the distant past. Pioneers of the wired world ...