Professor Talal Yassine OAM: business leader and philanthropist
“Macquarie made me who I am today and set me on a career and life path I hadn’t even imagined,” he says. As the Managing Director and Founder of the superannuation and investment firm, Crescent Wealth, Talal has overseen remarkable growth after just five years. He is also Director of the Crescent Foundation, a charity which advocates for refugee education, and is Patron of the Cre...
Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Competition
Nandini Bajaj and Jennifer Tridgell are two MQ Honour students who entered the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Competition earlier this year, with support from the Macquarie Law School. Nandini Bajaj and Jennifer Tridgell represent the first team to have entered this competition from MLS and were one of only three entries from Australia. Their performance in their written memorials q...
Macquarie’s PACE Program – Winner of the 2017 AFR Higher Education Employability Award
Macquarie’s Professional and Community Engagement Program (PACE) has won the prestigious 2017 Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards. It was announced on 29 August 2017 at the AFR Higher Education Awards night. This is a huge recognition and because it is a collective effort by many, the Awards Event was attended by representatives of the whole PACE community including PACE unit...
$8 million awarded in ARC Funding towards research into hearing, language and neuroscience
No fewer than 22 Macquarie research projects have received funding in the latest ARC Major Grants round, amounting to $8, 447, 451 in total. The Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham, made the announcement this morning for funding commencing in 2018. Separated by category, Macquarie was successful in receiving funding for Discovery Projects (DP; $5, 709,...
Two Macquarie professors recognised at NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research
Macquarie University has scored a double win at last week’s NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research. Professor Richard Kefford took home the Outstanding Cancer Researcher of the Year Award for his sustained contributions to the field of cancer research in NSW including publications and mentorship of other cancer researchers. Professor Helen Rizos was also recognised, winnin...
It’s the mother and child reunion: sea lion mothers spot their pups in a crowd
Sea lion mothers can identify the age of their own pup based on visual cues alone, and even when pups progress from babies to teenagers the females remember what their young looks like and limit their search only to pups showing similar features, in new scientific research just published. When returning to the colony after foraging in the ocean, mothers must find and correctly identify thei...