University of Melbourne Magazine

A close encounter with investment banker Mark Carnegie, a provocateur with a disarming vision for transforming society.

Education expert Glenda Fisher and commerce student Cassandra Yam might not look like they’ve got much in common – but after being paired trough a mentoring program, they have formed a strong bond that benefits them both.

George Sykiotis, the man behind some of Melbourne’s most popular restaurants, reflects on his university years and the birth of his business empire.

Corrie Chen has ambitions, big ones, the kind that require millions of dollars and nerves of steel. She wants to direct a feature film.

Alumna Yao Yi is at the heart of Beijing’s rapidly-changing legal scene.

At just 26, Katie Potts has become a founding research fellow at the University’s Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety.

Teaching in an island paradise.

Dr Kathryn Mumford on living and working in Antarctica.

Three PhD candidates working on a project exploring the history of child refugees have a special link with the work – they were all child refugees themselves.

He’s a former IT specialist; she’s an eminent psychiatrist. Now Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist are a literary couple, parlaying their original careers into second lives as novelists.

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