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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...
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...
Refugee mentoring program wins Humanitarian Award
Macquarie University’s LEAP – Macquarie Mentoring (Refugee Mentoring) Program has been awarded the 2016 NSW Humanitarian Award in Education. The LEAP Macquarie Mentoring (Refugee Mentoring) program is a unique mentoring program for high school students from refugee backgrounds, and provides a friendly atmosphere for students from refugee backgrounds to explore and navigate future educat...
Mystery solved! Long-lost painting found
Macquarie University Art Gallery curators are excited to report that along-lost painting from local artist Wilmotte Williams has been found. The painting was last seen in public in the Ryde area in the mid-1960s. As the story goes, Williams originally bestowed the piece to a boy who was eyewitness to the artist capturing a local Ryde scene. Touched by the boy’s enthusiastic praise she cal...
Thank you
Philanthropy gives us the power to achieve our full potential, and in 2015 an incredible 5084 donors committed more than $15 million – more than double the previous record. We felt that such an incredible display of support deserved a new report to illustrate all that you have made possible. We would like to thank all of our donors, alumni, volunteers and the wider community for their sup...
Macquarie announces record external research income
Macquarie University’s research income is at an all-time high with an amount of $67.3 million recorded in 2015, providing a great foundation for our future endeavours. “This result is down to our committed academics that put in the hard work submitting grants and conducting world-leading research,” said Professor Sakkie Pretorius, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), in response to the ...