University News
Wellbeing and lifestyle balance pays cricketing performance dividends
Top athletes talk about ‘flow’, a sense of being lost in the moment where everything just seems to come together for peak performance. But what does it take to find that sense of flow, and how do athletes’ commitment to their sport impact their lives? A pilot study by Macquarie University’s Professor John Sutton, Deputy Director of the Department of Cognitive Science and Associate P...
What’s next for Macquarie?
Macquarie’s tradition of doing things differently over the past 50 years has created an impressive legacy of inspiring discoveries. Since 1964, we have been doing some seemingly weird, and certainly wonderful things. We’ve helped fit stilts to tiny desert ants to create an ‘ant odometer’, revealing how they measure distance and ultimately how they navigate. We’re part of an intern...
Learning circle opens
In July a ‘learning circle’ was unveiled to honour our long-standing relationship with the Darug people, the traditional occupants of the lands on which Macquarie is built, and to pay respects to the elders both past and present. Hosted by the Department of Indigenous Studies (Warawara), the launch event saw Vice-Chancellor Professor S Bruce Dowton joined by members of the Darug nation ...
Macquarie’s Professor Lesley Hughes wins Eureka Prize
Professor Lesley Hughes. Photo by Chris StaceyMacquarie University climate change scientist Professor Lesley Hughes has won the 2014 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research. Professor Hughes has been researching and communicating the science of climate change for more than 20 years. She was appointed commissioner of the independent gover...
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 ...