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News - Displayed on Website	Rameshwar S Pande	21/10/2025
I am honored as a pioneer/ father of fodder/pasture & rangeland development in Nepal; published several books written in English and Nepali. All is due to Massey contributions.

News - Displayed on Website	Jung-Hsin Kuo	16/10/2025
I completed a Master of Management majoring in Marketing in 2009, during which I met my current husband, who was my classmate at the time. After graduation, I worked overseas as a Marketing Manager in the medical industry. I returned to New Zealand with my family in 2023 and am now working as an International Marketing Manager at a language school in Takapuna.

News - Displayed on Website	Ali Sheikh Bostanabad	16/10/2025
Since completing my Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management at Massey University, I have gained practical experience in environmental consultancy, community engagement, and conservation. I worked with Friends of the Earth New Zealand on transport system analysis and sustainable policy recommendations, and with Carbon Neutral Trust on carbon footprint assessments. My roles at Whau River Catchment Trust and Waiheke Resources Trust involved community engagement, nature-based solutions, GIS monitoring, and supporting sustainable initiatives like zero-waste events. I also volunteer with Conservation Volunteers NZ, Motuihe Island Restoration Project, and Earth Action Trust, contributing to biodiversity monitoring, predator control, and environmental awareness programs.

News - Displayed on Website	Keith L Macmillan	3/10/2025
I lived on the Massey Campus for five years from 1959 through to 1963 with four years in the Pink (McHardy Hall) and a year in Moginie House as an Assistant Warden. We were a small community that had all our meals in the Refectory Building. My time on Campus included a term as the President of the Students' Association in 1960/61. It was a successful Executive that : (1) established a "Buy-a-Brick" Campaign to raise funds for a Students' Union Building; (2) completed negotiations for Massey to hold its first NZ University Winter Sports Tournament and Arts Festival in August 1961; and (3) successfully "kidnapped" a Governor General (Lord Cobham) who temporarily opened a road behind The Pink that had been permanently closed. I enrolled as a post-graduate Research Assistant at Michigan State University in 1964 and completed a PhD in April 1967 to then return to a research position with the NZ Dairy Board based at its Artificial Breeding Centre at Awahuri. I was appointed Group Leader of the Physiology Group at Ruakura in 1977. In 1987 I received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to work at the University of Florida returning to NZ to join the Dairy Research Corporation. In 1997 I was appointed Dairy Australia Professor at The University of Melbourne and then an Emeritus Professorial appointment in 2014. I received a D Sc (honoris causa) from Massey University in 2003 as part of the 75th Anniversary celebrations.

News - Displayed on Website	` Zia-Ur-Rehman	2/10/2025
Awesome time, golden period of my life, can't have better. Missing it every second, every minute and every day. Love you Massey........ will come again

News - Displayed on Website	Saqib Sharif	25/09/2025
I am actively doing research and teaching since graduating from Massey University. I am able to publish my work in internationally reputed peer review academic journals, besides, my teaching evaluation is very satisfactory/good.

News - Displayed on Website	Janet P Skilton	25/09/2025
I graduated in 1988. I worked in the primary sector in the meat, horticultural and agribusiness for a long time but I now plan and deliver great digital customer experiences.

News - Displayed on Website	Dallas R Fenemor	19/09/2025
Ex Scientist ESR NZ South Island Laboratory Management ENZA , NZ . Private Employment Retirement.

News - Displayed on Website	Maria B Elder	15/09/2025
Since graduating in 1998, I worked for Ministry of Agriculture, the Pacific Community (SPC) and now at the US Embassy

News - Displayed on Website	David Katu	15/09/2025
My time at Massey University gave me so much confidence to face the job market with positivity. I ended up teaching in East London (Essex), England for 2 years before moving back to Papua New Guinea(PNG) and taught in a private school called International Education (IEA)Agency of PNG for 14 years. I worked as a Classrom Teacher and Deputy Principal. Ended my teaching career for 18 years as a primary school teacher and currently working in a retail business as Human Resource Manager for 8 years now. Massey University degrees can unlock various job opportunities around the world and gives you the opportunity to reach your full potential and accomplish your goals in life.

News - Displayed on Website	Md Tariqul Islam	10/09/2025
It has been a wonderful journey at Massey University. I had the opportunity to study both on campus and through distance learning, which made it possible for me to balance my studies alongside full-time work during my final year and a half. After graduating, I joined Medtech, a software company specialising in patient management systems. As part of the Infrastructure and Security team, my role focuses on areas such as threat intelligence, vulnerability management, cloud security, identity and access management, SSL encryption, and managing SIEM. I am truly grateful to Massey for offering flexible distance learning options, without which I would not have been able to complete my degree.

News - Displayed on Website	David C Cramp	4/09/2025
Massey (Palmy) greatly assisted me in a research only (distance) MSc in Zoology assessing honey bee pheromone attraction and the spatial dynamics of honey bee drone congregation areas using a UAV, and GIS mapping to complete the study. I am currently the VSA NZ Beekeeping advisor to the Kingdom of Tonga and the Cook Islands, and recently discovered the mechanism of varroa resistance in the unique Tongan honey bee. Research on the bee iss ongoing and has attracted international interest. Now working on devising a method of managing the bee to improve honey production and crop pollination.

News - Displayed on Website	Thu Kyaw Ra	4/09/2025
Mingalarbar (Kia Ora) I had a fantastic time at Massey being a mascot once. Still actively involved as a committee member with Student Service Fees Advisory Board, and Vice President (Education) with Academic Toastmasters Club - probably the one and only university in New Zealand which hosts Academic Toastmasters. I was the class rep for both semesters I studied and met wonderful students across many cultures. Massey helped and is still helping me grow. Right now, I am working as a manager at a Burmese restaurant in Auckland while doing volunteering work with Red Cross, Orange Sky, English Language Partners New Zealand and a volunteer teacher at the Buddhist Temple.

News - Displayed on Website	Randye J Semple	3/09/2025
I've come a long ways since I got my undergraduate degree at Massey. My website: <https://sites.google.com/site/randyesemplephd/home>

News - Displayed on Website	Emma G Carey	2/09/2025
I loved my time at Massey, friends I made at Uni have stayed my friends eight years since graduating and will continue for many more years. I was offered a job at Sport Manawat? straight out of University, and worked there for six years, three years as a Green Prescription Advisor, and three years as the Regional Sports Director for Secondary Schools. I am now back at Massey as the Wellbeing and Clubs Coordinator based at the Recreation Centre on Turitea campus.

News - Displayed on Website	Elizabeth M Presland-Tack	2/09/2025
I graduated with a BA in History in 1975 and worked in the book trade for a good part of my working life, beginning with A.H & A.W.Reed as PA to the CEO. I then moved on to London Bookshops as General Books Buyer at their Head Office Bookshop in Cuba Mall in Wellington. I then joined Associated Book Publishers (a British Company who had Methuen as one of their imprints - publishers of A.A. Milne) as one of their Auckland-based reps. In 1982 I joined David Bateman and my husband, David Presland-Tack, as they built David Bateman Ltd, Publishers. In 1986 My husband and I spent a very enjoyable couple of months in England and added this to our travels in Australia and Fiji. In 1987 I joined Penguin Publishers as a warehouse supervisor of the picking line (picking and packing booksellers' orders) before moving to Network Distributors, a new magazine distributor, as Circulation Manager. We acquired many of leading magazines in NZ, including NZ Woman's Weekly, The NZ Listener and NZ Gardener from British-owned Gordon & Gotch who had a virtual monopoly of the NZ magazine distribution industry in 1989 - and pioneered a new, more equable partnership between magazine publishers, distributors and retailers. In 1994 I moved back into the book trade as General Books buyer at the country's first Dymocks Bookstore in Elliot Street, Auckland until I was offered a job as manager of a bookshop which has been poorly managed and was in financial trouble. By 1997 the job was done and I retired to take care of my husband who was in very poor health. I returned to the work force in 2011 as Customer Services/Operations Manager/rep for a domestic cleaning company. The company went through a bad management patch and early 2012 I was left looking for a new job on my 60th Birthday. I got a new job as sales representative for a retirement village even though I had been diagnosed with cancer. I managed to keep the job going through my treatment and the death of my husband, finally retiring in 2017. My hobbies and pursuits include studying history (currently Scottish and Jewish histories), embroidery, gardening, being a member of Greenpeace and Forest and Bird Society and about to join a local environmental group who specialise in practical projects to enhance the urban environment. I still, at over 70, hugely value my learning and social experiences at Massey and will not forget the teaching and support of my tutors and lecturers.

News - Displayed on Website	David P James	1/09/2025
See articles :) Newsletter link: <https://alumnionline.massey.ac.nz/newsletters/alumni_2025_august> Profile: <https://alumnionline.massey.ac.nz/alumni-profiles/david-and-jo-james>

News - Displayed on Website	Asmaedayu B Mat Aripin	1/09/2025
Upon completing my MBS (in Management) in 2022, I have embarked on another academic journey of Doctoral in Philosophy in Management at Massey. With the research focus on the Ethics of AI.

News - Displayed on Website	Emily C Smith	1/09/2025
Struggled coz I can't find any jobs and I've been on job seeker since November last year .

News - Displayed on Website	Angela V Kibur	29/08/2025
Completed Masters in Educational Psychology and graduated in 2024.

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