The 93 first-year Nursing students enrolled at Bundaberg Campus have welcomed 'Annie' to their simulation laboratory.

Annie is a manikin designed for scenario-based training for the care and management of a wide variety of in-hospital patients.

It was 10.30 on a Sunday morning recently as students and staff began to assemble in front of the CQUniversity Melbourne campus.

CQUniversity was this week saddened to learn that Dr Arthur Appleton, Director of the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education (CQUniversity's predecessor) had died Monday. He was 75.

He loved the arts

Associate Professor Les Killion (from the School of Humanities and Communication) writes:

In every sense of the term, having been the former CIAE Director, Arthur was our first Vice-Chancellor having had that title (and the title of Professor) bestowed on him following the 1991 transition from Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education to what became the University College of Central Queensland, the precursor of the University of Central Queensland, Central Queensland University and now CQUniversity Australia.

Arthur had a great love for classical music and, during his days as Institute Director, he organised and hosted regular lunch-time ‘concerts' in what became the Helene Jones Room which had been constructed acoustically for the purpose and which in those days was regarded almost as a ‘sacred place'.

Jamie is a qualified cabinet maker with over 23 years' experience in the industry. For 7 years, he operated a successful cabinet making business in Bundaberg, employing 5 staff, but he gave it all away because he couldn't see himself fitting kitchens when he was 60.

CQUniversity Mackay recently held a Community Engagement Cocktail Function, enabling Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman and Campus Head Dr Pierre Viljoen to share their vision for the future of CQUniversity with members of the Mackay community.

Participants included representatives of the local industry, education, business and local government sectors.

European countries could learn a thing or two from scientists and policy makers involved in the giant Fitzroy River Basin.

The Queenslanders face complicated issues, including droughts, floods and run-off to the Great Barrier Reef, yet they seem to have good synergy in their relationships.

CQUniversity's School of Nursing and Midwifery this week hosted the Acting Executive Director of Nursing for the Central Queensland Health Service District, Simon Mitchell. He discussed human resource management issues facing health care organisations and the nursing and midwifery professions.

Representatives from industries and peak bodies were gushing with praise after this month's (March 19) Conference on Asset and Maintenance Management, hosted by CQUniversity Gladstone.

Power station GM Glenn Schumacher from NRG Gladstone Operating Services praised the potential "to improve the bottom line and survivability of our businesses".

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Hungary's Miskolc University and CQUniversity will pave the way for formal collaboration in teaching, learning and research.

CQUniversity Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Angela Delves formalised the relationship between the 2 universities with the signing of the MOU (March 22) alongside Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman and the driving force behind the MOU Jansci John Márk (CQUniversity's Information Technology Division).