Our first-year Learning Management (education) students based at Noosa Campus have been busy with their final assessment task for the 'arts' course, incorporating key community events.

Four groups have staged performances and have led school workshops as of the regional 'Floating Land' event.

Awareness of natural disasters and strategies on how to cope during such events will be the focus of SID's Safety in Disaster Day at Kin Kora State School on Friday, June 3.

A group of CQUniversity Bachelor of Learning Management (BLM) students have spent several months planning the program for delivery at Kin Kora State School as part of their preparation to enter the teaching profession.

CQUniversity's Institute for Health and Social Science Research (IHSSR) is this week holding two research seminars in Rockhampton about the inequalities in health.

Chris Platania-Phung, Research Fellow for the Institute in Melbourne has already presented on ‘Social-Scapes of the Walk' and he will address ‘A Double Stigma: Combined Physical-Mental Illness and Inequalities in Health Care' on Thursday at 1pm (building 33 G.

It may be an unusual career choice for a young man, but Carl Jensen set out with determination to become an early childhood teacher.

He may have only completed his studies at CQUniversity last year, but Carl is already in the classroom teaching prep at Gladstone Central State School.

CQUniversity reporting analyst and top local golfer Michael Neaton became the first competitor interstate to win the NSW Mid-Amateur Championship recently (May 19 - 20).

Neaton won the two-day event at Cypress Lakes Resort in the Hunter Valley after a three-way play-off for the title.

Occupational Health & Safety student Michelle Samson recently enjoyed a holiday in Fiji, thanks to being chosen as a finalist in a competition run by CQUni Student Association in conjunction with myOE UK*.

The competition was open to all university students from Australia and New Zealand and offered a trip to the UK based on a 100-word application, with finalists gathering in Fiji in the last week of May to compete for the big prize.

The status of the koala is uncertain, nationally, and local and regional populations are declining, according to CQUniversity researcher Dr Alistair Melzer.

Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, Dr Melzer recently contributed a submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the status, health and sustainability of Australia's koala population.

John Daley and Annette Lancy in The Conversation on Wednesday suggested that regional universities are failing to have economic impacts, and that investment in regional universities is largely wasted in efforts to stimulate regional development.

I read their report with some interest earlier this week as an economist who has previously written about the economic benefits of regional universities.

Children at Moore Park State School near Bundaberg had the chance to work and think the way scientists do, thanks to a Science Fair presented by 'Science curriculum and pedagogy' students from CQUniversity's Bachelor of Learning Management degree.

Lecturer Dr Rosie Thrupp said there was some disappointment from Year 1 students who didn't experience 'Tornadoes in a bottle'.

Some budding Masterchefs cooked up a storm at the Biggenden State School pancake breakfast to launch the CQUniversity ‘University Experience' program for students in Years 5 to 7.

Facilitated by the Student Support Centre Widening Participation team, Annette Thompson, Outreach Program Officer from the Bundaberg campus, arranged for two guest speakers to talk with the students about university and their careers.