Snapped on (and off) campus: April

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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dr Dee Anderson (4th from left) farewelled  after 15 years at Macquarie

University farewells Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Macquarie University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students and Registrar), Dr Deidre Anderson has been farewelled by colleagues after five years in the role.

Dee came to Macquarie in 2002 and served in various roles on campus, in each case working to improve the university experience for students and to balance personal development with their academic progress.

More than 200 guests gathered on the University’s 50 metre pool deck to celebrate and toast Dee’s achievements and and wish her well as she explores new personal and professional directions.

Dee leaves the University having graduated from her PhD on 28 April.


UK MP Nick Gibb visits Macquarie University

Pictured (from left to right): Dr Jennifer Buckingham, Distinguished Professor Stephen Crain, British MP Nick Gibb, Distinguished Professor Anne Castles and Professor Genevieve McArthur.

Pictured (from left to right): Dr Jennifer Buckingham, Distinguished Professor Stephen Crain, British MP Nick Gibb, Distinguished Professor Anne Castles and Professor Genevieve McArthur.

Members of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) have briefed Britain’s Minister for School Standards, Nick Gibb MP, on moves to introduce phonics screening in Australian schools. Influenced by the introduction of phonics screening in the UK, Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has proposed a literacy and numeracy check of year 1 students in Australian schools as part of a national push to improve children’s literacy.

MP Gibb met with members of the CCD and University and toured the Centre’s facilities within the Australian Hearing Hub.


Cultural competency survey winner announced

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Professor Mark Connor (Assoc. Dean, Higher Degree Research) receives a mud map of Macquarie University (painted by Aunty Kerrie Kenton, a Darug Elder) from Walanga Muru Director, Dr Leanne Holt.

Macquarie University’s Office of Indigenous Strategy is pleased to announce Professor Mark Connor (Assoc. Dean, Higher Degree Research), was the “VERY happy winner” of their Walanga Muru Aboriginal Cultural Competency survey.

The survey attracted 139 responses, giving Walanga Muru a great benchmark of the current cultural competency of University staff as well as “brilliant information” about the content staff would like included in a training package.

The Walanga Muru scheme offers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students opportunities to study at Macquarie.


Amazing race run and won

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Amazing Race competitors in full swing

The annual Macquarie University phenomenon, the Amazing Race, has been run and won. Staff and students in teams of four and dressed in all manner of outfits and costumes solved problems and completed challenges as they raced from checkpoint to checkpoint across the campus. Prizes were awarded to the fastest team; team with the most points; best dressed team and for best team spirit.


Police Weibo awards

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Senior members of the Ryde Local Area Command, Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor Professor S Bruce Dowton and staff and members of the Weibo team at the presentation ceremony.

Congratulations to students from the Translation and Interpreting postgraduate program who’ve received certificates of appreciation from local police for their work on the Weibo translation project. Senior officers from the Ryde Local Area Command presented the certificates during a ceremony at the University. Police and the University are working together to have safety and crime prevention messages for students here from China translated for inclusion on the Weibo social media site.


Secrets of the Sand symposium

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Secrets of the Sand symposium at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

The Secrets of the Sand symposium, hosted by Macquarie University in partnership with the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Rundle Foundation for Egyptology and Australian Centre for Egyptology has been hailed a “wonderful success”. Those attending heard presentations from international and local experts on mummies, tombs and funerary culture in ancient Egypt and, in the process, raised more than $6000 for the Rundle Foundation.


2017 Mental Health Youth Forum

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Image courtesy Carl Drury

The Macquarie University Centre for Emotional Health has joined with the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Youth Network to present an important mental health forum for senior high school students. Students from grades 10, 11 & 12 from schools across Sydney’s north took part in the forum designed to raise awareness of the important themes of mental health and resilience, to give them a platform to be heard on the issue and to plan for the future.

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