A four-day trip to East Timor earlier this year for Army Reservist Kate Ames and her employer Professor Scott Bowman, CQUniversity's Vice-Chancellor, has paid real dividends in the form of a new and vastly improved Defence Force Service Policy passed recently by the University's executive..

Congratulations to CQUniversity Master of Letters graduate Nicole Alexander who has been shortlisted for the prestigious ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Newcomer Award for 2011 for her first novel The Bark Cutters.

The award recognises a debut writer in any genre who has produced a work of high standing which achieves substantial sales across all book outlets nationally.

Keeping relationships healthy and strong involves making space in busy lives, according to Dr Will Reimer from CQUniversity's Psychology Wellness Centre*.

Dr Reimer has identified some interesting relationship trends, commenting that almost a third of Queensland couples who are heading to the altar or local justice of the peace for nuptials have one partner who was born in Australia and one who was born in another country.

CQUniversity researcher Heather Nancarrow has accepted an invitation to join an international collaboration titled ‘the Canadian observatory on the justice system response to intimate partner violence'.

Ms Nancarrow is Director of the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, based on CQUniversity Mackay Campus, and is a Key Researcher with the University's Institute for Health and Social Science Research (IHSSR).

Hundreds of the world's top engineering managers are expected to converge on Sydney in 2014, with CQUniversity helping to bring two huge conferences together in Australia.

Professor Gopinath Chattopadhyay will be Chair for the combined International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) and Conference on Asset and Maintenance Management (CAMM).

Guests at a morning tea on Rockhampton Campus this week paused to reflect about the development of relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Hosted by CQUniversity's Nulloo Yumbah* centre, the morning tea celebrated NAIDOC Week and the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the University community.

Mangroves seem designed to attract mud, yet their breathing roots manage to reach the air and seedling leaves manage to access sunlight to grow..

Japanese people would be forgiven for focusing inward following a string of disasters in March, but staff and students from Komatsu College University recently donated yen equivalent to $300, collected for the Red Cross Rockhampton Flood Appeal.

The President of the Komatsu College University - a long-standing partner of CQUniversity - made contact earlier in the year to notify us of this very kind donation.

Art lovers are invited to the second 'Dean Invites' exhibition at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music on CQUniversity Mackay Campus, from 7.30pm on Saturday July 16.