The people of Stanthorpe donned their glad rags and turned up in force to welcome local resident, celebrated bush poet and author, Mr Jack Drake.

CQU Press was the host for the launch of its new title, 'The Wild West in Australia and America' by Jack Drake.

Central Queensland University has joined Eidos – a new consortium of Queensland universities, government and non-government agencies committed to improving education and social change research, policy and practice.

Two Eidos events have been scheduled.

CQU has become an equal member in a consortium known as the International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM), trading as WaterEd Australia.

The official commencement ceremony for WaterEd Australia/ICE WaRM is scheduled for 4.

CQU is again ahead of the national median for graduate starting salaries, according to Graduate Careers Australia's newly updated annual report on the earnings of recent university graduates (released this week).

The national median annual starting salary for bachelor degree graduates* commencing full-time work in 2004 was $38,000.

Queensland Cabinet Ministers and female MPs are expected at the Australian launch of CQU Press' latest publication, 'From Suffragists to Legislators: Queensland Women in State and Federal Parliaments', written by John McCulloch.

Queensland Governor Quentin Bryce AC will launch the two-volume set from 1pm on Thursday, August 25, in the Legislative Council Chamber of Parliament House in Brisbane.

Patients with the common ‘netball knee’ (anterior cruciate ligament) injury recover from operations just as well at home as in supervised rehab sessions.

That is according to a new study by CQU’s Musculoskeletal Research Unit.

Rockhampton residents will soon be able to access free physical activity opportunities under the Rocky Active Parks (RAP) Strategy, endorsed by CQU's 10 000 Steps Office.

Scheduled to launch in early September, the strategy will deliver a six-week program of regular free activities in a number of Rockhampton parks.

Entries have been extended to August 3 for the Rockhampton-based Digital Animation and Photographic Art (DAPA) competition.

The event offers $100 prizes in nine categories, under the theme: ‘United through diversity, we laugh’.

A major New Zealand funding body has recognised the value of lifestyle surveys in health research, alongside the traditional focus on ‘bench science’ and medical treatments.

CQU's Professor Kerry Mummery has received funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand to develop an international collaboration with Auckland University of Technology Professor Greg Kolt in the study of the determinants of physical activity in the New Zealand and Australian populations.

A Central Queensland University MBA student from Cameroon, Central Africa, has been selected as the 2005 Face of the Fair.

Sylvia Forsung will welcome the thousands of expected visitors to the Central Queensland Multicultural Fair and CQU Rockhampton Open Day on Sunday August 14 at CQU’s Rockhampton campus.