The latest books to hit the shelves
Macquarie University alumni and staff have been putting pen to paper – or fingers to keyboards – with a number of new books recently published. Emily eases her wheezes With one in ten Australian children affected by asthma, and many suffering more during the winter months, a new children’s book by Macquarie alumna Katrina Roe is helping families manage their asthma more effectiv...
Queen’s Birthday honour for alumnus Stuart Clark
Stuart Clark, BA/LLB (1980)Macquarie Law School alumnus Stuart Clark AM was recently recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours when he was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his 'significant service to the law, through senior roles with professional legal bodies to strategic reform, and to the rural fire service’. Clark was among the first graduating cohort of law st...
Creating resilient societies
In the midst of ongoing global turmoil, communities are coming under pressure from social, economic, environmental, and religious pressures. Building resilient societies is one of the key focus areas of our Strategic Research Framework 2015 – 2024: World-Leading Research; World-Changing Impact, as Macquarie seeks to understand cultures in our changing world and building ethical, just and inc...
Macquarie University Hospital welcomes visit from Prince Harry
HRH Prince Harry recently visited Macquarie University Hospital (MUH) to meet with a British soldier who is receiving groundbreaking treatment for wounds received in Afghanistan. The Prince met Lieutenant Alistair Spearing, who lost both of his legs above the knee in an IED explosion in Afghanistan in 2011, at MUH’s osseointegration clinic. He is being treated by orthopaedic surgeon, Asso...
Alexander Arriola, PhD, 2013
While Alexander Arriola’s PhD research focused on using lasers to fabricate sensors to measure the concentrations of Parkinson’s biomarkers in the blood, after graduation he spent a year in Edinburgh focusing on astronomy. His quest for Earth-like planets around newly formed stars brought him back to Macquarie a year later, where he remains as a postdoctoral researcher. Today, he designs, ...
Andrew Formica, Master of Economics, 1993
Andrew Formica turned a passion for numbers into a brilliant international career. Originally from Sydney, Andrew earned a Master of Economics from Macquarie in 1993. He is currently the CEO of Henderson Group, a London-based asset management firm with a £3 billion market capitalisation, and is the driving force behind a groundbreaking business initiative. When made responsible for grad...