Thai researcher Yupaporn Piriyasilpa is happy to be back at Macquarie.
BRB, IMHO, LOL – the online world is full of strange new phrases. So does a student learning English online develop a different kind of English than someone learning from a textbook?
Professor Jing Jun (right) of Tsinghua University's Public Health Research Center joins cancer experts from Macquarie University in a question and answer session during the Asia-Pacific Public Health Conference in Beijing.
AIDS, tuberculosis, environmental poisoning, suicide and drug abuse were all on the agenda when Macquarie co-hosted the inaugural Asian-Pacific Conference on Public Health at Tsinghua University, Beijing last week.
Researchers (left to right) Dr Hamin, Professor Tung and Dr Baumann.
The rapid growth of China and other Asian economies has been one of the major economic stories of the century. With increased savings and investment capabilities, international banking and finance companies are keenly interested in attracting new customers in, and from, the region.
The colourful seed pod of the Acacia Cyclops
Estonian Christina Birnbaum has spent the last 3.5 years in the company of some very determined, but not always welcome, species of plants.
Nearing completion of her PhD in plant ecology, Christina is looking at how soil bacteria and fungi affect on the spread of plants, and why some plants don’t tend to become invasive at all.
The crab spider, Diaea Ergandros, is one of the very few ‘social’ spiders. (Photo: Jasmin Ruch)
German cotutelle PhD student Jasmin Ruch is fascinated with the kinds of spider behaviours that would frighten most people.
“One major characteristic of the spiders I am looking at in the crab spider Diaea Ergandros is extreme maternal care resulting in matriphagy – the consumption of the female by their own offspring,” she says.
