Alumni Focus
Natasha Copley – the more things change…
In a world that is changing at an ever-increasing rate, some things, according to alumna Natasha Copley (BA/DipEd 1999), remain the same – and some of them are what she gleaned from a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University. These skills have stood the test of time and are just as relevant today as they were when she undertook her degree. Even before COVID-19 wrought massive changes in ...
Richard Kimber – Strap yourself in: the future is here
More business leaders need to embrace artificial intelligence and understand it properly. It’s no longer something just for the IT department, says alumnus Richard Kimber (BSc 1991, MBA 1993), founder and CEO of AI software company daisee, it’s for CEOs and boards – and universities too. In fact, it’s going to change all our lives, and we all need to know about it. Sometim...
Jason’s journey from mentee to mentor
Alumnus Jason Duarte (BComm 2005) leads the alumni network in Canberra. A keen networker and advocate for his alma mater, he has been attending alumni events since he graduated. He has learnt firsthand the power of networking and the benefits of staying connected with Macquarie. Jason leads Westpac’s Corporate & Institutional Banking business in the ACT, which includes Public Sector...
How Ashley became Australian
When alumna Ashley Kalagian Blunt (MRes 2017) moved from Canada to Australia, she thought it would be easy to “become Australian”. Her recently published memoir How to be Australian about the pleasures and pitfalls of making Australia home will strike a chord with many of us who have arrived in Australia and tried to navigate a different culture and way of life. From tall poppy syndrome...
Mind over matter
When Brazilian disability advocate and quadriplegic Rodrigo Hübner Mendes became the first to drive an F1 racing car entirely with his mind, Emotiv’s technology was right there with him in the driver’s seat. Emotiv is on the frontier in developing scalable and user-friendly wearable electroencephalography (EEG) technologies for neuroscience, neuromarketing, cognitive perfo...
A silver lining that leads to the Eternal City
The way people work, learn and play across the world has significantly changed as individuals, organisations and governments respond to the outbreak of a global pandemic. The world over, people are wondering what the new normal might look like. There is much uncertainty, the news cycle is relentless and we now talk about pre-COVID-19 times. In 1634, English poet John Milton (1608-74) wrote ...