From left to right: Dr Natalie Taylor, Dr Janet Long and Dr Deborah Debono. A team led by Dr Natalie Taylor from the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation was last week awarded with a Cancer Institute NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Research. Dr Taylor is chief […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Seeking child participants for scoliosis risk trial
Participants must be between 11 and 15 years old and will receive a $30 shopping voucher.
Student survey order site now open for Session 2 and full year units
The team requires 21 days’ notice to guarantee that the survey will be ready on the date required.
Give blood and get the best biscuit ever
Blood Bank will be outside the Library on 25-26 August from 10am to 4pm.
Plenty of fish in the sea
It stands to reason in a healthy environment that prey should always vastly outnumber the predators that eat them. But an international study has found that sometimes, even in the most untouched environments on the planet, the food pyramid can be turned upside down. Led by Macquarie’s Dr Johann Mourier, a research team has discovered […]
Web Transformation Project: Your questions answered
The Web Transformation team has been providing updates on changes to Macquarie’s public, staff and student websites at regular information sessions. Here are some of the most common questions coming out of these sessions… Where are we up to with this project? Transforming the University’s online presence is a complex project involving the Web Transformation team, IT […]
Pioneering Minds podcast: Professor Greg Downey, neuroanthropologist
Are we all the same deep down or do our specific circumstances create real differences? This week the Pioneering Minds podcast speaks to neuroanthropologist Professor Greg Downey about how culture informs us, the vital importance of research and the amazing potential of the brain. Listen below and then tell us in the comments what you […]
Open Day sneak peek
How often do you sit at your desk and think ‘I really should head over and check out that amazing facility I keep hearing about’? We don’t always have time during the working week, but Saturday 20 August is your chance to discover all the incredible things Macquarie is doing at Open Day 2016. If […]
Science program inspires Indigenous youth
Associate Professor Joanne Jamie from the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences is co-director of the National Indigenous Science Education Program (NISEP), along with Macquarie colleagues Dr Ian Jamie and Associate Professor Subra Vemulpad. Here Jamie gives a little background on NISEP and a preview of this Sunday’s Indigenous Science Experience @ Redfern. The National […]
MQ Health: a new name for a new approach to healthcare
MQ Health is the new name for Macquarie University Health Sciences Centre, bringing together Macquarie University Hospital, Macquarie University Clinical Associates, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinical components of the Faculty of Human Sciences. We spoke to Professor Patrick McNeil, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Carol […]