[Pictured above] Congratulations to Royal Maskey from Campus Life who last week took home the title of Masterchef 2015 (and a $500 King of Knives gift voucher).

Royal’s winning dish: Prawn roulade with green bean, polenta and prosciutto, grape, wild rocket parmesan salad with a tangy Asian dressing.

Runners up:
Lia Saunders (Faculty of Human Sciences): Snapper fillet with salsa verde, lemon infused fennel and a cold capsicum salad.

Lurion De Mello (Faculty of Business and Economics): Fillet of beef, blue cheese mash, with root garden veggies.

 

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) commemorates two milestones in the reconciliation journey – the anniversaries of the 1967 referendum and the High Court Mabo decision. To launch NRW at Macquarie, staff from Warawara (Office of Indigenous Strategy) organised a planting of a Sea of Hands. The planting saw staff, students and the wider community plant a hand in support of NRW. The hands are a representation of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander flags.

 

Well done to the Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability (ARIES) on winning two National Trust Heritage Awards, for projects Habitat Stepping Stones and Our Place.

Habitat Stepping Stones, which won the Conservation Natural Landscape award, is an innovative website which embraces modern technology, social media, public recognition and gamification to encourage people to add habitat elements into their gardens.

Read more about Habitat Stepping Stones.

Our Place, which won the Heritage Tours and Multimedia, Government and Corporations Award, is a collection of three short Indigenous films which were produced with funding from the Australian Government’s Indigenous Heritage Program, and in partnership with Hornsby Council and local traditional elders.

Read more about Our Place.

 

Congratulations to Dr Natalie Taylor from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation on being named a Translational Cancer Research Network (TCRN) Cancer Challenge of the Year awardee for 2015.

The Cancer Challenge of the Year is an annual TCRN-funded research initiative which supports up to two translational research projects yearly that seeks to meet an unmet need in cancer patient care or treatment.

Dr Taylor’s project Achieving behaviour change for management of Lynch Syndrome and prevention of cancers aims to improve genetic testing referral rates of colorectal cancer patients with high-likelihood risk of Lynch syndrome using the six-step Theoretical Domains Framework Implementation (TDFI) approach. The TDFI approach uses behaviour change theory and implementation science principles to identify and address key barriers to changing clinicial practice.

 

Children from Gumnut Cottage swapped their toys for the dirt recently, and joined Cindy Cunningham from the Department of Sustainability to plant trees and show their commitment to building a sustainable future.

 

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