Latest news and updates from the Menzies Foundation on leadership, community, and social impact.
This week at the Boston Conservatory, Harvard Menzies Scholar and composer, Nicholas Vines, will be central to Guerilla Opera’s new production of Loose, Wet and Perforated, having provided the music and libretto for its 10thanniversary production. The only RG Menzies Scholar to Harvard to complete a Music PhD in composition, Nicholas has an incredible CV, […]
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The 2017 Menzies Scholar in Engineering is set to help bring cheaper, more efficient, zero-emission electricity to markets at home and abroad by combining business nous with his electrical engineering skills. Olsen Garland from the University of Newcastle will study a Master of Business Administration at the London Business School starting in 2017, with the
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The Menzies Health Institute Queensland has marked its first birthday with a clean bill of health. The important partnership between Griffith University and the Menzies Foundation has resulted in the first health and medical research institute in Australia dedicated to allied health research and translation. At the first birthday event at Griffith University on the
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Based on research by Dr Josie Barbaro, the ASDetect app which aids with the early identification of autism, has won the National iAward for Research and Development Project of the year. La Trobe University and Salesforce developed the free app based on research conducted at La Trobe’s Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre by 2006 Menzies
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A physiotherapist who is studying the cultural differences in pain awareness, management and patient interactions, has been awarded the 2017 Sir Robert Menzies Research Scholarship in the Allied Health Sciences. The first Western Sydney University student to be awarded Menzies Scholarship, Bernadette Brady, will complete her PhD on the project “The inequities of chronic pain
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Justice Susan Kenny has some pretty clear advice for law graduates looking to take their careers to the next level with the Menzies Law Scholarship or the Sir Ninian Stephen Menzies Scholarship in International Law. As a Federal Court Judge, the 1985 Menzies Scholar in Law, former Associate to Sir Ninian Stephen, and a member
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Two-time Australian Olympic Diver and Harvard Menzies Scholar, Mike Murphy, says the transition from Olympian to the next phase of life presents significant challenges for many athletes. But 20 years on from his last Olympic appearance, the message he’d like to give them is pretty clear: there is so much more to life. Mike now
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