CQU's Dr Nanjappa Ashwath is among only 20 candidates in the world to gain a Rotary Teaching Scholarship for 2008* .

The scholarship will enable a 3-month tour of India (from Nov 08 to Jan 09) to show how Australian plants can help remediate degraded land and produce essential requirements of life such as animal feed and fuel wood.

Two years after performing in a student production of a 'A Chorus Line' in Rockhampton, Jenna Saini was overjoyed to be in New York recently to witness a Broadway version of the show.

The CQU Performing Arts student was in the United States on a 6-month student exchange program organised with Buffalo State University (State University of New York).

CQU academic and author Dr Ann-Marie Priest will give a talk entitled 'Reinventing Love for the 21st Century' in her role as headline speaker for the Whole Woman Festival on March 8-9 at Kingscliff on the Tweed Coast.

Dr Priest is on the festival agenda on March 8, which is International Women's Day.

In order to achieve success in teaching, it is imperative that the credibility of the teacher be demonstrated to students on both personal and professional levels.

That is according to Liz Sidiropoulos from CQU Melbourne International Campus, a recent recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Teacher of the Year (as a dual award with David Qian, also from CQU Melbourne).

CQU's Dr Karl Neuenfeldt has been appointed as an honorary associate at the Queensland Museum Southbank Campus for a period of 3 years.

While he does not have responsibility for the care and maintenance of the collections, he can undertake other curatorial duties including research, fieldwork and provision of information and advice to the Museum board, staff and visiting members of the public.

Flood waters throughout Central Queensland may have worsened the existing Hymenachne weed problem in the region's creeks and rivers.

According to Central Queensland University's Leo Duivenvoorden, the weed now infests many kilometres of creeks and rivers in the region and is becoming more widespread.

As a result of a partnership between Central Queensland University and Capricorn Community Radio 98.5 FM 4YOU, the first of a series of locally produced Memories talking book CDs have been launched at the studios of 4YOU at 51 Murray Street (on Feb 16).

CQU academic Professor Denis Cryle has contributed a retrospective on The Australian newspaper to Online Opinion: Australia's e-journal of social and political debate.

Professor Cryle notes that he encountered a significant problem for a newspaper historian, namely how to characterise The Australian:

"Was it a liberal paper, radical, conservative or all three? It was at least two of these, perhaps all three - avidly read and distributed by anti-Vietnam activists, liberal in its early politics then violently anti-Labor and advocate of the New Right, before moving back to the centre of the political spectrum in the early 1990s.