Vale Jill Roe
The university community, alumni and friends came together on Monday 20 February to celebrate the life of Emeritus Professor Jill Roe, one of the university’s founding tutors (and later professor), who died earlier this year. Jillian Roe AO was born in 1940 in Tumby Bay, SA, a small farming town where her father was a farmer and her mother a nurse. After finishing school at Adelaide Girls...
Macquarie alumna’s book made into TV series for HBO
In a tranquil seaside town, nothing is quite as it seems. Doting mums, successful husbands, adorable children, beautiful homes: What lies will be told to keep their perfect worlds from unraveling? Told through the eyes of three mothers – Madeline, Celeste and Jane – Big Little Lies paints a picture of a town fueled by rumours and divided into the haves and have-nots, exposing the confli...
Blood test discovered for MS
An international study, led by Macquarie University researchers Dr Edwin Lim and Professor Gilles Guillemin, has discovered the first blood biomarker – a chemical identifier in the blood – for multiple sclerosis (MS), a debilitating disorder of the central nervous system that affects more than 23,000 Australians and 2.3 million people worldwide. The findings, which took 12 years to di...
How ethnicity and religion can influence financial habit
New research has found that people with a religious or ethnic background are more likely to save money, quelling the long-held belief that income and financial proficiency are the main determinates of an individual’s ability to save. Alongside a team of international researchers, Associate Professor Chris Baumann of Macquarie University’s Department of Marketing and Management studied low, ...
MGSM ranks first in Australia, for the third year in a row
The Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) has once again taken out the title of Australia’s best business school as well as placing in the world’s top 50 business schools. Based on the results of the Financial Times’ global MBA ranking which is considered a benchmark of business school excellence MGSM placed 49th globally and first in Australia, for the third consecutive year. Th...
Global Leadership Program wins prestigious award
Macquarie University has become the first Australian institution recognised for internationalising its campus through the Global Leadership Program. The Institute of International Education (IIE) has announced the winners of the annual IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education with Macquarie University’s Global Leadership Program (GLP) receiving the award for I...