2014 Women, Management and Work conference to focus on igniting leaders and Intrapreneurs
Most people are familiar with the concept of entrepreneurs, but the idea of fostering creativity and innovation within the workplace – intrapreneurship – will be the focus of this year’s Women, Management and Work conference. Intrapreneurship has become popular as companies aim to leverage their employees’ ability to innovate and stay competitive in the marketplace. The confere...
2014 Queens Birthday Honours
Companion of the Order of Australia Dr Megan Clark AC For eminent service to scientific research and development through fostering innovation, to science administration through strategic leadership roles, and to the development of public policy for technological sciences. The Honourable Barry Jones AC For eminent service to the community as a leading intellectual in Australian public life, t...
Outstanding alumni and what Macquarie taught them
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Research with the power to change the world
Macquarie University has long fostered scientific research that is interdisciplinary, collaborative and open to commercial patnerships. Over the years that philosophy has paid off in exciting and unexpected ways, with game-changing innovations, cutting-edge medical research with the potential to save countless lives, and new ways of looking into the distant past. Pioneers of the wired world ...
New insight into history
Sometimes scientific breakthroughs are the result of happy accidents or chance encounters. At a chance meeting between Dr John Magnussen, Professor of Radiology at the Australian School of Advanced Medicine, and Roman pottery expert Dr Jaye McKenzie-Clark, an Early Career Fellow at Macquarie’s Department of Ancient History, she lamented that analysing the composition of pottery samples us...
The next level of early diagnosis
It’s a known fact that early detection of diseases saves lives. If, for instance, doctors could diagnose cancer when malignant cells are first developing, treatment could begin before they do any harm. Macquarie researcher Dr Dayong Jin, the Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Macquarie’s Advanced Cytometry Laboratories, is at the forefront of the creation of hypersensitive molecu...