Humanities & Social Sciences
New Alumni Relations Director has big plans
Macquarie has a new Director of Alumni Relations, Bruce Mortimer. He joined the university in mid-October, and brings more than a decade’s experience managing alumni programs at the University of Melbourne and Victoria University. Professor David Wilkinson has brought him on board with a mandate to make Macquarie’s alumni program truly world class. “We would like to extend our alum...
Award season
It might not be the bright lights of Hollywood, or feature the paparazzi or a red carpet that runs for miles. But to us, awards for academic achievement or community work deserve a brighter spotlight. And this year, the light shone on a number of our extended Macquarie family as they were acknowledged across a variety of awards. Alumnus Dr Philip Foreman AM was selected in this year’s Aus...
The gift that keeps on giving
Greville Anthony Price, a graduate of the Division of Environment and Life Sciences, left a most generous gift in his will to the University. Specifying his desire to support research in plant ecology, his bequest allowed for the publication of research on the native vegetation of Duck River and Rookwood Cemetery in Western Sydney. This is an example of one person’s wish to support a spec...
Child language expert awarded Australian Laureate Fellowship
Professor Katherine Demuth, Director of the Child Language Lab and a member of the Linguistics Department, the Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS), and Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) at Macquarie University has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship. The Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme, administered by the Australian Research Council, gives outstan...