Sport & recreation
Winners are grinners: Macquarie’s Sport Scholars bring home medals from the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
Macquarie University Sport Scholars have bagged two gold medals, one silver and one bronze at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Sport Scholar Esther Qin (pictured above right ) won a gold medal at the women’s three-metre board synchronised diving event (with Georgia Sheehan, pictured above left) and a bronze medal in the women’s one-metre springboard final. Esther and...
Macquarie alumni feature in 2018 Australia Day honours
Twenty Macquarie alumni were recognised for their contributions to a range of endeavours in the 2018 Australia Day Honours. Former Australian netball captain and champion, broadcaster and media commentator, Liz Ellis (B Arts / LLB 1997), and Industrial Relations academic, Emeritus Professor Russell Lansbury (Doctor of Laws (HonorisCausa) 2005), received the Officer of the Order of Australia a...
Its Been An Eventfull Alumni Year
Over 3,000 Macquarie alumni have shown their professional and social spirit by attending over 27 Macquarie alumni events held in Sydney, across Australia and across the world in 2017. The Macquarie University Global Alumni Impact Series continues to offer a range of thought-leadership discussions featuring alumni and industry experts. Topics included: Leadership (Sydney) Healthy min...
2017 Blues Awards: honouring the green and gold era and elite athletes
In a ceremonial showcase of performance, the Macquarie University 2017 Blues Awards were held on Wednesday 25 October. A number of athletes were recognised for their outstanding achievements athletically and academically while representing Macquarie University, their state or nation across the past year. Former Olympic Gold medallist and OAM Brooke Hanson was the Master of Ceremony, with M...
Founding rugby club members’ green power reunion lunch
Calling the old and the bold – founding members of Macquarie’s rugby club will be having a 50 year reunion on Friday 16 June. Pioneer student James Lloyd (BA 1972) and other members of the club who played between 1967 and 1978 are hosting the event. “We had a great 50-year reunion last year, but when we thought about it, we realised that 2016 was only 49 years since students began ...
Alumnus Justin Morris conquers the desert – on bike
Macquarie alumnus Justin Morris recently completed the annual Simpson Desert Bike Challenge, which is the world's oldest multi day mountain bike race. “It was five days of racing 600km across Australia's largest sand dune desert. I managed to win the race after a gruelling week in the desert. The finish line is in Birdsville, QLD." The Simpson Desert Bike Challenge has been running e...