CQUniversity Bundaberg will host a FREE youth forum to encourage 14 to 20-year-olds to 'become a future leader'.

This event featuring leadership expert Peter Baines, a former NSW Police team leader involved with terrorism and disaster response, will be staged from 3.

There are a whole lot of new conversations going on. Academics are making time away from rigid school, faculty, campus and discipline silos and are starting new creative spaces thanks to the Communities of Practice concept, known as COPs.

A group of nursing students from Nagasaki's Kwassui University managed to pack in a lot during their recent visit arranged by the English Language Centre at CQUniversity Rockhampton.

As well as polishing their English skills, the students were able to attend nursing lectures and interact with CQUniversity's nursing students and academics.

Congratulations to CQUniversity honours researcher Matt Thompson who has a $5000 scholarship* to ensure access to national physics laboratories, furthering his understanding of the corrosion of mild steel in heat exchanger tubes in the digestion phase of alumina production.

The Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) stipend enables him to access equipment at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and other facilities supported by AINSE.

Final-year 'Co-op' engineering student Ben Dinsdale and about 50 of his counterparts recently gave presentations on their latest industry placements, for which they have been based at work sites across Australia.

One lucky power engineering student - Alex Guinane - even managed to score a placement at the ABB power and automation technology group site in Zurich, Switzerland.

CQUniversity Rockhampton recently hosted a delegation of business partners from Faiveley Transport, a multinational supplier of rail products and technologies with representation in 26 countries.

The Faiveley visitors met with our Centre for Railway Engineering to discuss current research collaborations and also took the opportunity to meet representatives of two companies based at Rockhampton campus - Rail Innovation Australia (RIA) and Insyte Solution Pty Ltd.

Around 90 Year 11 students from Rockhampton, North Rockhampton and Glenmore state high schools and Heights College recently had the chance to 'Meet the Scientists' by mingling with postgraduate researchers at CQUniversity.

Students learnt how to use the scientific method to research, design and conduct scientifically valid experiments.

Rockhampton music lovers heard some of our emerging jazz talents thanks to a free concert at the Glenmore Hotel this week.

The concert was presented by students from CQUniversity's Bachelor of Music program, who are pictured during final rehearsals on campus.

Staff graduates at the CQUniversity's Rockhampton campus enjoyed getting together for a chat at the third ‘Staff Graduate Lunch' last week.

Following on from the functions held in Mackay and Bundaberg last year, Rockhampton staff were introduced to the network and caught up with new and long-serving colleagues.

Staff on the Rockhampton Campus gathered for a St Patrick's Day function sponsored by Facilities Management and the Vice-Chancellor and President's Directorate. 

Staff used the occasion to dress up and donate money to the