CQUniversity groundsman and keen artist Rod Wills showed that art can imitate life when his first oil painting for several years had a garden theme.

Now Rod is working hard on a redevelopment around buildings 6, 7 and 8 to ensure Rockhampton Campus can look just as lush one day.

Dr Stephen Lundin was guest speaker for the recent Australian Institute of Management International Speaker Series events, which visited Mackay, Rockhampton and Gladstone last week.

CQUniversity sponsored the breakfast events to support local business and to demonstrate the University's understanding of the value that staff bring to the success of any organisation.

CQUniversity and ABC Radio Capricornia will present Jazz at the Riverside, in Rockhampton's Riverside Park, from 2pm-4pm on Sunday May 30.

The free show will feature one of Australia's leading saxophonists Graham Jesse* with the CQUni Jazz Orchestra and other jazz and contemporary music ensembles from the Bachelor of Music program based in Rockhampton.

Eight students from CQUniversity Mackay recently coordinated events to raise the profile of young children, as part of their final-year subject Advocacy, Leadership and Change in Early Childhood.

The Bachelor of Learning Management students aligned the activities with the nationally-celebrated Early Childhood Australia - Under 8s Week theme of 'Think Globally, Act Locally'.

CQUniversity Alumnus Nicole Alexander visited Rockhampton for the first time for the launch of her first novel The Bark Cutters.

Despite completing a Masters in Creative Writing degree at the University she never stood on campus.

Anglo American Metallurgical Coal has teamed up with CQUniversity to research a rare tree species found at Callide Mine near Biloela.

Callide Mine Environmental Coordinator Sally Bulten said Callide Mine was offering a tax-free PhD scholarship and research support for studies on the biology and conservation of the threatened plant, Quassia bidwillii.

CQUniversity's Library network spends $1.3 million on journals and databases and $550,000 on books each year.

Libraries are now high-traffic places, serving millions of people and helping them negotiate the 'e-everything' future, as our most widely-used cultural institutions.

That's according to Graham Black, the new president of the Australian Library and Information Association*, who is based in Rockhampton as Director of CQUniversity's Library network.

Australia's 'frustrating waste of talent' should be enough justification to expand Outreach programs.

That's according to CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman, who called on people to look beyond statistics and targets to see individual potential being wasted.

Many people drive past cattle having their little paddock meetings and some may even wonder what they are conversing about..