Picture-perfect race for Italian PhD student
With the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House as the backdrop, the Sydney Half Marathon was a picture-perfect race for Italian Physics PhD candidate Carlo Bradac last month.
News
MQ Photonics publishes its first newsletter
Read about the Macquarie University research centre ‘MQ Photonics‘, and find out the centre’s goals and recent achievements.
Physics and Astronomy at the MQ Research Awards
Physics and Astronomy sweeps the 2010 Macquarie University Research Awards
Members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy won four of the eight categories in this year’s Macquarie University Research Awards.
Congratulations to the researchers for the following categories:
Excellence
…‘Phrame by Phrame Photonics’ wins OSA award
MQ Photonics wins the “Optics Visualized Contest 2010” award from the Optical Society of America
Staff and students of the MQ Photonics Research Centre entered an educational movie into the “Optics Visualized Contest 2010” which was held at a recent …
Enhancing fluorescence signals for Physics PhD
Wei Deng studies the applications of nanoparticles in bioassays and bioimaging.
As good as GALD
New device for the detection of bacteria is as good as ‘GALD’
A scientist at Macquarie University is working with a Sydney hospital to develop a device, known as the Gated Auto-synchronous Luminescence Detector (GALD), which could radically improve the …
Diamond Lasers
Diamonds hold key to laser discoveries
Diamond is best known for being a prized gem and the hardest cutting element available, but now thanks to research being carried out at Macquarie University it is also proving to be a super …
Super Science Fellowships
Young scientists to be recruited with early-career grants
Macquarie University will receive almost $1.7 million in funding starting in 2010 and 2011 under the federal government’s Super Science Fellowship scheme. The money will be used to fund fellowships which will …
Making a splash
Tiny diamond sparklers may hold the key to big advances in biomedical imaging technology
A team of researchers, led by Macquarie University Associate Professor James Rabeau, have discovered that the properties of light emitted from tiny isolated nano-diamonds are completely …
Strong performance in ERA
Excellence in Research for Australia: Macquarie’s science results
(Note – this article is about the 2009 ERA ratings. In 2012 ERA, the Macquarie Astronomy and Space Sciences was ranked 5 – well above world standard)
Macquarie University has received …
Young Tall Poppy Awards for Macquarie scientists
Macquarie University’s Dr Kira Westaway was named most outstanding scientist for NSW/ACT at last night’s Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, an award she shared with Dr Michael Valenzuela from the University of NSW.
Madin, Westaway, Jodi McKay MP, Prof Stephen …
Diamond research on ABC’s Catalyst (video)
Hear Future Fellow James Rabeau on the ABC Catalyst program explain why his research on diamond could be the key to protect all your electronic data.