Over 50 people celebrated rain falling on traditional Darumbal sites as they joined a Central Queensland University Community Program tour earlier this week.

Facilitated by Bob Muir, a descendant of the Woppaburra people, the tour of significant local Darumbal sites included Mount Archer National Park, Mount Jim Crow National Park, Bluff Point National Park, Tanby Point and Mount Wheeler.

The Rockhampton Chinese Association will celebrate the completion of stage one of the redecoration of Joss House, a Chinese temple and hall in North Rockhampton this week (Saturday May 27).

Thanks to a Central Queensland University grant, the Rockhampton Chinese Association is undertaking a ‘renovation rescue’ on the 106–year-old Chinese Joss and its artifacts and the hall in which they are kept.

Central Queensland University invites you to commemorate National Sorry Day and the National Reconciliation Week at its Rockhampton campus, building 32 lecture theatre, on Friday May 26 from 1 to 1.45pm.

Women Into Science and Technology (WIST) students recently attended a workshop at CQU Rockhampton to help reduce the anxiety associated with maths.

WIST students travelled from Mt Morgan, Gladstone and Rockhampton to attend the workshop where they met other students, and also used the opportunity to be introduced to the library facilities.

After living in England for almost half her life, Australian-born Angel McMillan came back down under recently to launch her career in performing arts.

Enrolling in CQU’s Bachelor of Performing Arts degree in Rockhampton, the 26-year-old literally stepped off the plane on one day and then into the classroom the next.

Contemporary photomedia students from CQU Mackay recently attended class on location at Artspace Mackay, where several photographic exhibits are featured this month.

The students viewed a selection of photographs by celebrated Sydney photographer William Yang, a selection of life-sized portraits of the ‘boat people’ residing on the Pioneer River by local photographer Dean Whitling, and historical images from the Joskeleigh South Sea Islander Museum.

Music Theatre students and staff from the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM) in Mackay will be performing this Sunday May 28 in a free concert in the Foyer of the Mackay Entertainment Centre.

Commencing at 2pm, the 'Back on Broadway' concert will include some well-known songs from Broadway spectaculars of the past; including excerpts from ‘Mame’, Showboat’, ‘Man of La Mancha’ and ‘Sweet Charity’.

Join the Mackay Library Society and the Friends of the Conservatorium this Friday evening May 26 from 7.30pm, for an audio and visual feast for Glenn Miller fans and music lovers of all sorts.

Glen Hodges, Jazz Studies Coordinator with the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM), recently returned from a 5-week tour of the United States undertaken as part of research for his PhD – chasing the ghost of jazz legend Jimmy Raney.

The tour commenced in Copenhagen, Denmark, then moved to the United States where Glen visited the former stomping grounds of the jazz guitar great in New York and Louisville – Kentucky.

Queensland\'s Department of State Development, Trade and Investment (DSDTI) is promoting CQU Professor Richard Clegg\'s work with industry on its website.

Professor Clegg, based at the Process Engineering and Light Metals (PELM) Centre on Gladstone Campus, has gained funding from DSDTI over the past 3 years.