Brisbane-based early childhood specialist Andrea Ashford will present a ‘calm home/calm children’ workshop for parents from 7.30pm on Friday, May 20.

Central Queensland University has joined Eidos – a new consortium of Queensland universities, government and non-government agencies committed to improving education and social change research, policy and practice.

State Education Minister Anna Bligh launched Eidos in Brisbane this week as part of Queensland’s Education Week.

CQU Head of Nursing & Health Studies Dr Lorna Moxham is enthusiastic about her new role on the national Mental Health Nurse Education Taskforce.

Dr Moxham joins representatives from James Cook University, University of Wollongong, Victoria University and Murdoch University who will represent the Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery on the taskforce.

The Relay for Life event hosted at CQU Rockhampton over the weekend has raised more than $180,000.

Several University-based teams took part, CQU staff members were part of the organising committee and the University was a major sponsor, along with Channel 10, Sea FM and The Morning Bulletin.

School children in Gladstone, Rockhampton and Yeppoon will be confronted by a production of ‘A Property of the Clan’, based on a real-life rape-murder tragedy.

The powerful and sensitive play explores issues relating to personal safety, male attitudes to females and individual responsibility.

A report by CQU's Institute for Sustainable Regional Development has sparked plans for a major crackdown to reduce water pollution.

The Queensland Government is proposing new laws to curb water pollution and avert the loss of thousands of jobs and tens of billions of dollars in tourism, fishing and aquaculture.

Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd, Central Queensland University (CQU) and Central Queensland Institute of TAFE/TAFE Queensland Mining Service (CQIT/TQMS) have united to meet the needs of Australia’s mining community by producing a specialised Mining Associate Program.

The education providers were approached in October last year by Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd to help produce a specialised program to address the shortfall in Mining Associates within their organisation.

There are substantive environmental, economic and social reasons why ethanol should be rigorously evaluated as a credible diversification opportunity for regional Australia.

That is according to Professor Bob Miles, of CQU's Institute for Sustainable Regional Development (ISRD), who presented a paper at the 2005 International Ethanol Conference in Brisbane recently.

Over the past three years, the Gladstone Centre for Clean Coal (GC3) has been working towards its foremost aim of promoting the current and future importance of coal as a sustainable energy source via communication and information dissemination.

The GC3 has been busy keeping up its regularly maintained web presence and publishing newsletters, all designed to promote coal to the broader community as a suitable energy source.

Plant Sciences researcher and senior lecturer Dr Nanjappa Ashwath has gained success with his push for native plants to be planted on Rockhampton campus instead of exotic species.

He has worked on the project alongside staff from Facilities Management and Plant Sciences, along with volunteer helpers.