Science visits and information sessions

Science visits and Information sessions will take place 12.30pm – 1.15pm. 

Discover what these sessions have in-store for you!  

Teacher Session

While your year 10 and 11 students are off touring campus and your year 12 students are planning their future, come and join your peers for an informal conversation and discussion around Extension Science.  

Year 12 Session 

During this session, year 12 students will spend time interacting with peers and university academics across a range of different disciplines. Not only will you gain insight into what your future collaborators are doing but also have the option to see where research can take you.  

Anechoic Chamber and OptoFab and 3D printing lab visit

Join us on a tour of one of the world’s quietest places! You’ll experience the surreal world of pure silence when you visit us in the anechoic chamber. Then, you’ll move from hearing into vision, where you’ll tour the MQ Photonics laboratory and get to check out advanced 3D printing and LASERS!

Next, the tour will take you through the speech physiology facilities where you will have the chance to ultrasound your tongue and find out about how this links to your accent.

Lasers and sensing  

See how lasers let us control atoms to measure time and magnetism, sense ocean properties, and help astronomers to remove the twinkle from stars.  Tour the Jim Piper Discovery Centre, experience its incredible features, including a captivating hologram, an interactive PufferFish sphere, and a dynamic periodic table display.  Don’t miss the intriguing Windogradsky column displays, showcasing the complexity of microbial ecosystems. Join us for an immersive journey into the wonders of physics and discovery.     

Medical Faculty Tour  

Join a guided tour of our medicine facilities and health sciences facilities. Macquarie is a world leader in health. We're home to MQ Health – Australia's first university-led fully integrated health sciences centre – as well as Australia’s only not-for-profit hospital at a university, more than 30 specialist clinics and state-of-the-art clinical education labs.     

Natural Sciences Tour  

Come see the centre of synthetic biology research in Australia to see what engineering organisms can do to kickstart the bioeconomy. We will also tour the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility where the term “proteomics” was coined and see the amazing chemistry of novel materials that can be used for everything from diagnostics to identify diseases to construct next-generation displays for our phones and TVs.    

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