Grapevine Online- Recent Updates
| Name: | Dr Tristan Barnett |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (1964); Graduate Diploma in Operations Research (2002); Doctor of Philosophy in tennis statistics and modelling (2006) |
| News: | Online business at www.strategicgames.com.au
for providing high quality sport and gambling information. Appointment as an Adjunct Reseach Fellow at Swinburne University and write publications on sport and gambling. |
| Name: | Mr Philip Holloway |
| Degree & Area of Study: | BA Dip Ed (1977) |
| News: | Still teaching at Bomaderry H.S. also continue to organise debating with the Arts Unit. |
| Name: | Assoc Prof Ann Coke Dennison Murray |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Ph.D., Psychology (1978) |
| News: | Ann Dennison Murray has been given an Award for Distinguished Teaching in Distance Education from the National Association for University Continuing Education (USA). She teaches three Postgraduate courses online for Kansas State University (Infant Behavior and Development, Child Development, and Early Childhood Behavior).
Although she teaches for Kansas State University (where she is an Associate Professor), she teaches her online courses from her home in Chestertown, Maryland (on the Eastern Shore of the U.S.,about 2,000 km from Manhattan, Kansas, in the centre of the U.S.). |
| Name: | Mr Tony Dawson |
| Degree & Area of Study: | BA Dip Ed (1979) |
| News: | After graduating, went to Taejon, South Korea(Soong Jon University) to teach English. |
| Name: | Prof Brian Andrew |
| Degree & Area of Study: | B Leg S (1982) |
| News: | Currently doing a series of talks on the tax and financial aspects of climate change. Recently returned from giving a talk at Curtin University of Technology Applied Law and Policy Centre on this topic. |
| Name: | Mr Peter Khoury |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Bachelor of Economics (1987) |
| News: | After some 20 years of graduating from Macquarie I have joined the Alumnni. I have been living in Adelaide for about 15 years, it would be great to connect with Macquarie graduates around the same time who are also living in Adelaide. |
| Name: | Mr Michael van Leeuwen |
| Degree & Area of Study: | MA Hons (1993) |
| News: | Currently working as the Executive Director of the State Library Foundation, Victoria. My two boys, Tom and James van Leeuwen will be attending Macquarie Uni as undergraduates in 2009 and 2010. Both boys play AFL for Macquarie University. My x-partner is a Macquarie University employee working in External Relations for the Faculty of Science. |
| Name: | Ms Susan Woodward |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Master of Management (1996) |
| News: | I have just embarked upon my new career - starting up my own marketing, brand and business development consultancy. Specialising in strategy, management and implementation. |
| Name: | Mr Ming Tang |
| Degree & Area of Study: | MA in International Communication (1999) |
| News: | I am now running my own business of photo and video production. I am also the president of The Association of Shaanxi Fellows in Australia. Shaanxi is one of the provinces in China where the world famous Chinese ancient Terra Cotta Warrior was found. The Famous Chinese city is the capital city of Shaanxi. |
| Name: | Prof Heming Yong (Family Name at Graduate: Yong) |
| Degree & Area of Study: | PhD in Linguistics (2001); MA in Modern English (1992); BA in Business English (1980) |
| News: | Over the past two years I had got two books published by overseas publishers. One is Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective, published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in 2007, and the other is Chinese Lexicography A History from 1046 BC to AD 1911, published by Oxford University Press in 2008. |
| Name: | Mr Ray Warouw |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) (2002) |
| News: | I've recently joined RedBalloon Days as the General Manager - IT. We specialise in "pleasure" and have thousands of interesting things to do (take a peek at www.redballoondays.com.au) and if you are interested in experiences large or small, please feel free to contact me. Cheers - Ray |
| Name: | Ms Sasha Jessop |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Graduate Diploma of Education (2003) |
| News: | I was invited to participate in the American School of Classical Studies excavation at the Agora in Athens Summer 2008. |
| Name: | Ms Natasha Flores |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Bachelor of Laws (2006) |
| News: | Am now woking as a union official with the Textile, Clothing and Footwear union doing a variety of work mostly relating to the working conditions of outworkers in the clothing industry in Australia. |
| Name: | Ms Klaudia Kowalewska |
| Degree & Area of Study: | BBA (Hons) (2006); BBA BA-PSY (2005) |
| News: | I recently went to the Wine Tasting Evening , it was a wonderful alumni event and I would encourage everyone to go for the the next one. |
| Name: | Mr Stephane Savanah |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Grad.Dip.Philosophy (2006) |
| News: | Hi All,
I am looking to extend my network by meeting CIOs and senior IT managers, primarily (but not limited) to the financial services sector. If you are able to introduce me to your contacts in this field, please drop me a line on 0407-377-703. Look forward to hearing from you. Cheers, Stef |
| Name: | Ms Lorato Koosaletse |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Master of Social Health (Psychology) (2007); BSc Psychology (2003) |
| News: | Hi all,
I'm sitting at my desk in a tiny office in Botswana and missing the hectic days of submitting assignments and THE Thesis!! I do miss Sydney and Macquarie, which for 6 years was my home away from home. I now work for a Christian based organisation named Botswana Christian AIDS Intervention Programme (BOCAIP). I am a centre coordinator and we have two projects at the moment. One is an HIV voluntary counselling and testing service where we test people for this virus. Under this project we also offer counselling for all sorts of psychosocial challenges faced by people either infected or affected by the virus. we have contributed to 53% of Batswana testing themselves and knowing their status, which feels good but we need the other 47% to catch up. The other project is aimed at Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.In this project we talk to expectant women and their partners on the importance of preventing transmission to the child (if the mother is HIV positive); to mother frm father and if both are HIV positive then we stress the importance of preventing re-infection. It can be very fulfilling working with these mothers and watching them raise their HIV negative children. The only problem is that men do not fully participate in it and there is also the challenge of repeated pregnancies from the HIV positive women. Nonetheless I have hope that things will get better and that we will be able to forge ahead in the fight against HIV/AIDS. |
| Name: | Ms Yin Yin |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Master of Commerce (2007) |
| News: | I have graduated and moved into Beijing in 2007. Just say hello to everyone. |
| Name: | Mr David.Rufeng Da (Family Name at Graduate: Rufeng DA) |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Master of Accounting (CPA Extension) (2008) |
| News: | I'm in Shanghai China now. |
| Name: | Mr Lei Wang |
| Degree & Area of Study: | Master of Translating and Interpreting (2008) |
| News: | I work at Netease (a top gateway Chinese website) in Guangzhou, China. I'm currently an editor of the official website of the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. |