Hard work pays off for young retailer
Macquarie alumnus Aaron Lum has taken home a ‘highly commended’ award from the recent National Retail Association Young Retailer of the Year Awards. The 25-year-old, who works at the Woolworths head office in Bella Vista and holds a Master of International Business from Macquarie, was up against 25 successful young retailers from across Australia, and says he felt like a Miss Universe cont...
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If you feel you might be at a crossroads in your career and don’t know what to do next, then why not take advantage of the Career Advantage MQ service? Designed to help you take the next step in your profession, for the special alumni price of $195 (the usual price is $900) Macquarie University’s Career Advantage is a professional vocational advisory service delivered by Masters of Orga...
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In the 2014 Alumni Survey you told us that you want to know more about benefits, events and news. Your Macquarie University Alumni Web Community (AWC) is an exclusive online space to update your details and register for benefits and events. It now also lets you tailor your preferences so that we can keep you in the loop about the things that interest you most. Is Management, Leadership and ...
Reaching for the future
Over the past few months the Macquarie community has united to define the University’s long-term goals and the elements that will make it distinctive within Australia and around the world. This process led to the development of the Strategic Research Framework 2015 - 2024: World-Leading Research; World-Changing Impact, which is designed to guide Macquarie University's research trajectory ...
Macquarie’s women of influence
Five Macquarie University alumni and staff members were recognised in The Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards for 2014. Alumna Stephanie Lorenzo, CEO of Project Futures, which is committed to anti-human trafficking and youth activism, and Jennifer Star, CEO of Tara.Ed, which is changing lives by improving the quality of education in rural India, were recognised...
Macquarie alumnus to head CSIRO
Technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist Larry Marshall has been appointed to head Australia’s peak science and research organisation CSIRO when current chief executive Megan Clark steps down in 2015. Dr Marshall, who has a doctorate in physics from Macquarie, was chosen from a field of more than 70 candidates for a role that is arguably the most important position in national scien...