Macquarie at 50, Augustus at 2000
Macquarie may be celebrating a milestone this year, but recently Ancient History staff took the opportunity to commemorate another occasion: 2000 years since the death of Augustus Caesar. The Faculty of Arts launched their Jubilee event season with the lecture: Macquarie at 50, Augustus at 2000 in mid-August. The driving force of this event – Associate Professor Thomas Hillard and the Dep...
Leave your mark
In our Jubilee year, Macquarie is offering you the unique opportunity to leave your mark on the university by having your name – or the name of a loved one – immortalised on a plaque in the Macquarie Theatre. Hundreds of students wander in and out of the Macquarie Theatre each week and with a donation of just $500, your contribution to the life of the University will be recognised with ...
When science meets philosophy: understanding the ethical implications of overdiagnosis
Macquarie University's Professor Wendy Rogers is taking a philosophical approach to the issue of overdiagnosis in the healthcare sector. Overdiagnosis refers to a range of healthcare activities or interventions that end up harming rather than helping patients. It can occur when the definitions of disease are widened, when harmless or clinically insignificant lesions are diagnosed or treated...
Alumni survey says: you want more Macquarie!
The results of the 2014 Alumni Survey are in and you've told us you want more, more, more! 5325 alumni responded to the survey we sent you earlier this year, including Chante Li, who was the winner of the $1500 travel voucher. “Macquarie was more than just a university education for me, so I wanted to help the University to connect with its former students by participating in the surve...
Walking down memory lane
The Jubilee celebrations have given staff and former students a chance to explore the history and discover new things about the University they thought they knew so well. Take the University’s main walkway through campus. At almost one kilometre long, it is affectionately known as ‘Wally’s Walk’, and was named as a tribute to Dr Walter V Abraham, Macquarie University’s Architect P...
Exciting new facilities open on campus
Macquarie has recently unveiled innovative learning spaces that promise to transform students’ experience of university life, from the way they study, to the way news is produced. Macquarie University Spatial Experience (MUSE) The old library has been transformed with the opening of MUSE, a new social learning space custom-designed to give students a place where the boisterous, social ...