2011 was a year of achievements and successes for Dr Santoso Wibowo who has been an academic at CQUniversity Melbourne for the past decade.

Santoso started his journey in Australia as an engineering student in 1997.

Senior school students from Blackwater, Gladstone and Rockhampton took a break from holidays this week to experience work as a paramedic.

Guided by Paramedic Science program leader Anthony Weber, the students took part in sessions on airway management, defibrillation, CPR and injections, as well as field trips to emergency service bases.

TVNZ has featured CQUniversity graduate Sandra Arnold's views about confronting death, as part of a touching story about how families cope with grief.

Dr Arnold recently expressed her views in a book entitled Sing No Sad Songs, published by Canterbury University Press, following her graduation with a PhD in Creative Writing from CQUniversity last year.

CQUniversity has received the lion's share of funding in the Commonwealth Government's latest higher education investment round, putting it on the path to becoming Queensland's first dual-sector institution and an engineering powerhouse..

CQUniversity student Tracy Scott has her eye on a career change into the developing area of environmental psychology, helping to design spaces like supermarkets and other retail outlets.

That's why she has welcomed support from the Zonta Club of Rockhampton, part of a worldwide organisation dedicated to advancing the status of women, which has provided an encouragement award of $500 towards study books from the CQUniversity Bookshop.

More than $130,000 in contributions from council, industry and university funds will enable detailed planning for the Regional Sports Hub proposed for CQUniversity Mackay.

The development concept includes a synthetic athletics track, Olympic-standard aquatic facilities, indoor sport facilities, a multi-purpose sporting field, leisure water attractions and a sports bar.

CQUniversity has taken the lead on a Commonwealth Government commitment to place a teacher in every Australian childcare centre within three years, through an innovative training partnership with Noosaville Childcare Centre.

The Collaborative Learning Project has seen students in the Noosa Campus-based Bachelor of Learning Management (Early Childhood) program visit the neighbouring centre to train with staff and children through games, learning activities and group discussions.

A contingent of CQUniversity Nursing and Midwifery students has just returned from a remote community in Nepal, where they have been lending a hand at a local hospital, rural health camps and outreach clinics..

CQUniversity's undergraduate Nursing degree has a unique focus on the consumer perspective, and the University could become a nationally recognised centre of excellence for mental health nursing..

Postgraduate student researchers this week went head to head for the title of 'best presentation', during a conference run by CQUniversity's Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability (IRIS)..