Penelope Watson BA (Hons) Tas, LLB UNSW, LLM Syd Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School (11 June 1952 – 29 December 2016) It is with great sadness that we announce the recent passing of our long-term colleague and friend, Penelope Watson, after a long battle with cancer. Penelope was an outstanding academic, much esteemed and beloved by academic peers and many generations of students ...
Following an accident that left him with quadriplegia and ended his engineering career, John Moxon (BA (Hons)1983) came to Macquarie to study psychology and launch a new career. “I chose Macquarie mainly because it was the most wheelchair friendly campus in Sydney and was the closest to my home,” he says, adding that once he started studying the friendship and support he received from ...
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...
In 2015, Macquarie University and pioneering surgical oncologist Professor Fred Stephens announced a partnership to establish a Chair of Surgical Oncology at Macquarie, ensuring a dedicated research and development position for this revolutionary form of cancer treatment. Professor Stephens, who sadly passed away in November 2015 at the age of 88, was a pioneer in the field of surgical onco...
Every four years, the International Association for Coptic Studies gets together for their worldwide conference. This year, one of Macquarie’s own Master of Research students, Sue, was awarded the prize for best thesis. We caught up with Sue to hear more about her amazing achievement, and what motivates her to be a lifelong learner. “I’m just starting my PhD. I’ve been learning a...
Journalist Richard Ackland AM has been awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his long-serving contribution to journalism and law. Mr Ackland is legal affairs columnist, editor of the online legal affairs newspaper Justinian, publisher of the Gazette of Law and Journalism, and has been admitted as a legal practitioner Supreme Court of NSW. He has won numerous awards, including M...