Former Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Dr Martin Parkinson AC PSM, has been announced as the seventh Chancellor of Macquarie University.

We normally think dust in the house is a nuisance, not a hazard. But in recent years, exposure science and environmental contaminant studies have looked in detail at residential indoor dust to see what we’re exposed to, how much, and what the

A group of snorkelling grandmothers is helping scientists better understand marine ecology by photographing venomous sea snakes in waters off the city of Noumea, New Caledonia.

Nacre (often called mother of pearl)—the rainbow-sheened material that lines the inside of mollusc shells—has mystified scientists for more than 80 years.

Universities have always performed work that benefits the broader community. But in recent years there has been much more emphasis on demonstrating and measuring the impact that this work has outside academia, with impact assessment now embedded in

Aged care workers are so rushed and pressured to provide basic physical care for older people, they have no time to meet their clients’ basic social and emotional needs, a joint UNSW Sydney, Macquarie University and RMIT study has found.

Macquarie University students will have more opportunities than ever to study and complete internships in the Indo-Pacific region in 2020, after projects totalling $2.4 million were awarded funding under the New Colombo Plan Mobility Program.

Macquarie University has been recognised for its strong global partnerships, winning a Premier’s New South Wales Export Award in the category of International Education and Training.

Research in quantum computing, birdsong musicology, star formation and computer image recognition are among the Macquarie University projects awarded $5.4 million funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced that a consortium centred around Macquarie University’s Biofoundry will receive $35m in funding to create a new ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (CoESB) from 2020.

Lifestyle factors that may protect brain health and reduce the risk of dementia will be trialled in a newly funded Macquarie University study.

Macquarie University has been awarded SAGE Athena SWAN Bronze accreditation in recognition of action it has taken to address gender inequity in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) disciplines and achieve tangible