About 60 potential female scientists are converging on Central Queensland University Mackay on May 21-22.

Girls In For Technology and Science (GIFTS) university co-ordinator Vivien Clift said interactive hands-on activities would be used to highlight the numerous opportunities relating to science and technology.

Virtual Conservatorium student Evette Clague has collaborated on music for this Friday's (6pm) ABC TV documentary called 'Sisters in the Black Movement'.

'Sisters in the Black Movement' profiles the women who were a part of the movement leading up the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights.

Carlos Villanueva’s first attempt to complete a full-time university Music/Sound Engineering degree was cut short in the 1980s, when he had to leave Chile in a hurry during the military dictatorship.

Fifteen years later and based in Sydney, the full-time composer and performer had put his academic goals on the backburner due to a lack of flexibility in conservatorium studies.

A postgraduate Diploma in Railway Signalling developed via a Rail CRC project and offered by Central Queensland University under license is the first available to the signalling profession anywhere in the world.

That is according to Associate Professor Ken Kwong, from Central Queensland University, who has coordinated development of the project as well as the program offering.

Central Queensland University’s Reconciliation Group in conjunction with the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy will hold a Journey of Healing Ceremony to celebrate National Sorry Day at the riverbank next Wednesday May 26, at 1pm.

The Reconciliation Group is encouraging Rockhampton workers and residents to join with the Murri community in the ceremony to promote reconciliation and change in the future.

Rail CRC, based at CQU Rockhampton, is attracting interest with a software project that may help trains run on time.

According to The Australian (May 18) newspaper, the Rail CRC is working on a bundle of real-time train scheduling and optimisation tools.

Combining a universities delegation and a cricket tour to India has created dialogue and potential for interaction on engineering education projects.

An initiative of the Queensland Government saw a group of academic researchers representing various Queensland universities travel to Sri Lanka and India for a combined academic and cricket tour to showcase Queensland capability.

CQU's Associate Professor John Rolfe presented a seminar for the Bureau of Rural Sciences and the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in Canberra last week.

The title of the seminar was 'Designing Market Trading Systems for Natural Resource Management in Queensland'.

The Relay for Life event held at CQU Rockhampton athletics track has raised more than $120,000, thanks to the efforts of 74 teams and around 900 participants.

The 18-hour event included plenty of fun, including camping, colourful team costumes, all-night entertainment and a 'womanless beauty pageant'.

Queensland Country Women's Association Central Highlands Division president Val Beak (pictured left) has presented the group's annual bursary to Amanda Newman, a Bachelor of Learning Management (Early Childhood) student (pictured right).

Miss Newman, whose home town is Springsure, is studying at CQU Rockhampton.