The Macquarie team will participate in the Dragons Abreast Festival on Saturday 22 October.
Yearly Archives: 2016
What’s new in Policy Central?
Learn more about the policies and procedures that have been recently introduced or amended.
Celebrate and unwind at RE:Conception
Thanks to the Student Representative Committee, a brand new festival is making its way to Macquarie this year, and it’s called RE:Conception. Split over 15 and 16 September, RE:Conception has been designed to celebrate the place we all know and love in our very own backyard. Thursday night’s party in the Atrium will be headlined […]
Love a loud gig? Why David McAlpine wants you to get your hearing checked this week
Professor David McAlpine at Saturday’s Open Day free hearing screenings for Hearing Awareness Week. Four in 10 Australians with hearing loss have it because of noise exposure, making it the leading cause of hearing loss in this country. This week is Hearing Awareness Week at Macquarie: a week intended to educate Australians about the dangers of […]
How the Bee Gees can save lives
How do our brains visualise music? That’s the question that Department of Cognitive Science PhD student Rebecca Gelding explores in her study of music cognition, and she sheds light on this fascinating subject in the latest episode of the Pioneering Minds podcast. This week’s episode also explores the therapeutic potential of music and, curiously, why imagining the beat of […]
University train station closure – what you need to know
You may have heard that the Macquarie University train station will be temporarily closing to accommodate major upgrades required for the new Sydney Metro Northwest line. While the new line will obviously offer many benefits – with trains promised to run every four minutes between Rouse Hill and the city during peak hours – the potential disruption […]
It’s time to prioritise you: Wellbeing Week is coming
In an increasingly busy, 24/7 kind of world, most of us would admit that we don’t always make enough time to focus on our personal wellbeing. Wellbeing Week, 8-16 September, is your chance to change that and start putting yourself first. Part of the University’s continuing commitment to supporting staff, Wellbeing Week will feature a […]
One week left to nominate for the 2016 VC Excellence Awards for Professional Staff
Nominations for the 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards for Professional Staff close Friday 26 August.
North Ryde Fun Run
The moment I fell in love… (with science)
In celebration of National Science Week (13 – 21 August), we asked seven Macquarie staff to share a memory of when their love of STEM began…. “My father was a professor of electrical engineering and my grandfather was a chemist, so I’ve had a lot of science around me all my life. My grandfather worked […]