Yearly Archives: 2016
Breakfast Bar: get your $3 bacon and egg roll
The SRC’s Breakfast Bar will continue to run this week in the Campus Hub Atrium.
At war with your colleagues? Make it official
Looking for a team-building exercise that lets you sort out those squabbles once and for all? Round up your colleagues and head to the Lighthouse Theatre, which will be home to a pop-up Laser Tag arena throughout May. Laser Tag is a tag game played in a darkened environment with players wearing infrared-sensitive targets. Paul […]
Nature rates Macquarie
Macquarie University is among the top 10 performing Australian universities with the highest outputs among 68 prestigious international journals according to the 2016 Nature Index. Macquarie was also ranked in the top 400 institutions worldwide (374). Highlighted in The Australian last week, the index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles across journals including Science and Proceedings of […]
Macquarie in the media: April highlights
Macquarie University frequently shares great stories with the broader community via the media. Some recent highlights are below. If you are interested in learning more about what’s being reported about Macquarie University in the media, you can sign up for the Daily Media Report mailing list by emailing communications@mq.edu.au. Got a media story suggestion? Submit a request […]
April Academic Senate report / Assessment Policy changes
Read the latest important updates and changes from Teche, the University’s learning and teaching blog.
Complete the Library survey and win
The Macquarie University Library is now running its major biennial user survey.
Upcoming refurbishment works to C5A – Level 4 East
The refurbishment of C5A Level 4 East will commence on Monday 9 May, as part of the C5A Upgrade Project.
Pop quiz: How well do you know your Macquarie acronyms?
As any new Macquarie staff member can tell you, our University is a place where acronyms thrive. Research centres, facilities, programs, committees – it can take years before you get your head around them all. Here’s 30 acronyms and abbreviations you might encounter at Macquarie. How many do you know? Write down your answers, check […]
Macquarie honours visiting physicist Sir Michael Berry
Left to right: Associate Professor Gabriel Molina-Terriza (Department of Physics and Astronomy); Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sakkie Pretorius; Sir Michael Berry; Associate Professor Michael Steel (Head of Department, Physics and Astronomy); and Professor Barbara Messerle (Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering). Famous mathematical physicist Sir Michael Berry was a distinguished guest of Macquarie in April, after being invited by […]