CQUniversity Associate Professor Alison Owens* recently convened a panel of culturally diverse business students from CQUniversity, RMIT and Swinburne to present at the Australasian Shared Services & Outsourcing Week annual conference, at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

The students, including CQUniversity Accounting student Dishala Thenuwara and PhD candidate Priyantha Bandara, commented on their business interests and career plans as Generation Y future business leaders.

CQUniversity English Language Centre students Diana from Taiwan, Jonathan from Chile and Navneet from India achieved a fourth place in a Multicultural Cuisine Group cooking competition held in Rockhampton over the weekend.

Coached by Sim from Korea, the '3 Directions' team put in a great effort as part of the 'Taste of the World Festival' at Rockhampton's Riverside Park in Quay Street.

Audiences have one last chance to see Judith, Stuart and Friends live in concert this year at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music Theatre on the Mackay campus of CQUniversity, at 6pm on Wednesday, May 2.

Featuring CQUniversity senior lecturer Judith Brown on the Stuart and Sons concert grand piano, the free concert will feature special guests including CQUniversity lecturer Kim Kirkman and several Bachelor of Theatre students.

A love of sports led Rockhampton Indigenous woman Sherry-Kaye Savage into the study of Human Movements at CQUniversity, where she really enjoyed biology, anatomy and the practical components of her degree.

As a new graduate, she was able to help provide agility sessions for students involved in the University's Indigenous Widening Participation holiday program.

Associate Professor Alison Owens recently visited China at the invitation of Guangxi University to receive an Honorable Professorship and deliver a series of cross-cultural training workshops for students at the Sino-Canadian International College at Guangxi.

Dr Owens, who is Director of CQUniversity's International Education Research Centre, said students at Guangxi undertake two years of English study and content-study in English before moving on into a three-year bachelor degree.

Rockhampton's cycling fans are gearing up for the annual Bike4Life event, scheduled for CQUniversity Rockhampton on Sunday, July 29.

A fundraiser and launch for this event will be held at the Rockhampton Campus Refectory from 5pm-7pm on Saturday, May 5, hosted by the Bike4Life committee and Rotary Club of Rockhampton.

CQUniversity's Oral Health students are learning with dental equipment and instruments that are the envy of some dental practitioners.

As 18 of the 26 students who attended a recent residential school are dental assistants, they could see straight away that attention to detail and high quality performance will be hallmarks of the Bachelor of Oral Health.

Dozens of staff, students and community members competed in a range of sports for the annual Rockhampton Campus 'Mini-Olympics' on the weekend. Photographer Peter Lawrence was on hand to record the action.

The honorary award of Companion of the University has been conferred on health sector leader Dr Denise Powell* to recognise her extensive contribution to the Bundaberg community and local CQUniversity campus.

This award was a feature of CQUniversity's Bundaberg Graduation ceremony at the Moncrieff Theatre.

CQUniversity was a sponsor for Saturday's 'Taste of the World Festival' at Rockhampton's Riverside Park in Quay Street.

Organisers from the CQ Multicultural Association arranged cooking and master chef competitions, demonstrations of international cuisine, multicultural food stalls, cultural performances, a multicultural choir, market stalls and prizes.