Spring Calling Campaign
This Spring, several of our wonderful students will be calling selected alumni on behalf of the Office of Advancement to share news about what is happening at Macquarie, to ask for your support, and to hear your own stories and updates. The spring campaign follows a calling campaign that ran for nine weeks from November 2015 to February 2016, in which 413 donors donated $136,084.1...
University Blues winners get together to celebrate their sporting achievement
Recently Macquarie Blues winners were invited to join fellow sporting high achievers at a combined event for Blues from Sydney University, the University of New South Wales and UTS. Held to coincide with the Olympics, the Sydney Metro Blues event was held in the City and was attended by Blues greats Robert Moscato (Karate 1992), Elisa Barnard (Archery 2013), Andrew Clark (Mountain biking 20...
Stay fit at your desk
There’s a growing body of research that says too much sitting is not only bad for your waistline, it’s also bad for your health. So the team at Macquarie’s Sport and Aquatic Centre have come up with some tips for exercising while sitting at your computer. Stretching Simple stretching exercises while sitting will help prevent you from feeling stiff. Neck: To stretch your nec...
The key to charity success: no deadlines
New economics research from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management says charities that impose long deadlines on donations will be less successful than those that don’t. The study by Professor Maroš Servátka and his University of Otago co-authors Associate Professor Stephen Knowles and Lecturer Trudy Sullivan looked at the impact of imposing deadlines on charitable tasks, and found ...
Key identifier for suicide risk discovered
An international collaboration between researchers at Macquarie University, the United States and Sweden has identified a molecule in the blood that could hold the key to identifying the cause of suicide. “We have known for a long time that people who attempt suicide have markers of chronic inflammation in their blood and spinal fluid. Commonly used antidepressants have only limited effec...
Campus plan connects community and business
Macquarie University is developing two new commercial buildings as part of its long term vision to expand and enhance its 126-hectare campus, focusing on creating spaces that optimise collaboration and establishing an innovation nexus in one of Australia’s largest business parks. The proposed new development at 8 and 10 University Avenue forms the next phase of development under the Unive...