[Pictured above] Macquarie has announced five scholarships up to the value of $1 million AUD for Croatian PhD candidates to conduct research in Australia through the Croatian Cotutelle PhD Scholarship program.

Professor Sakkie Pretorius, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) made the announcement at a ceremony at the University of Zagreb.

For more information on the program visit: www.hdr.mq.edu.au

A new assessment for children in the first years of schooling will change the future of mathematics education in Australia. Developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and Macquarie, the Pattern and Structure Assessment (PASA) provides teachers with diagnostic information on young children’s thinking about underlying mathematical ideas, rather than the mathematics they can and cannot do.

“By knowing how children approach mathematical tasks, teachers can plan and scaffold individual learning experiences,” said lead author Professor Joanne Mulligan [pictured above] from the School of Education said, speaking ahead of the PASA launch in August.

Students from our FIRST Robotics Australia program recently showcased robots at Optus’ Wintergarden event on the company’s campus. FIRST Robotics Australia Director, Luan Heimlich from the Department of Engineering, joined the students at the event.

The Crunch Catering kitchen team served up deliciously popular mushroom soup on the last day of soup service a couple of weeks ago. Over the course of three months, the team served up more than 12,000 soup portions, including 240 gifted soups for random acts of kindness.

[Pictured above]: Adjunct Professor David Mabberley from the Department of Biological Sciences and Deidre Anderson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students and Registrar).

Last month, the University celebrated the fifth anniversary of our arboretum with a cake and tree planting. Hosted by Professor Lesley Hughes, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Integrity and Development), the event celebrated the valuable resource for research and teaching the arboretum has become.

The University Arboretum comprises all the trees and plants on our grounds and is unique in that it is the only arboretum in Sydney located on a university campus.

Earlier last month, 25 legal organisations visited Macquarie for the Options with Law Fair. Hosted by the Career and Employment Service, in collaboration with the School of Law and the Macquarie University Law Society, the event attracted more than 500 law students who had the opportunity to explore the many career options available to them when studying law.

International students from the English Language Centre (ELC) paid a visit to Warawara, the Department of Indigenous Studies, to learn more about Aboriginal culture and the importance of keeping Aboriginal languages alive. The ELC group of students also learned about the traditional art of crosshatch paintings.