A new state-of-the-art research precinct is set to put Central Queensland on the world map for scientific innovation, following an initial investment of more than $6 million by CQUniversity..

CQUniversity is helping to host and arrange sessions in Rockhampton and Gladstone, so safety managers can get up to speed with new workplace laws being 'harmonised' across state borders.

The University is working in partnership with Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) and Safe Work Australia to hold events on campus in association with National Safe Work Australia Week.

Mackay baby Maisie was already a media star in the womb, as reporters from national news outlets recorded Premier Anna Bligh performing an ultrasound scan on her mum.

Maisie's mum Tamasine Kiln is a CQUniversity staff member who was helping out during the official launch of Mackay's new $4 million Medical and Applied Sciences Laboratories earlier this year.

Hervey Bay couple Craig and Kathryn Huckins were glad they attended Open Day at Bundaberg Campus, as they won a competition for the best ideas about 'using technology to promote health'.

Campus staff from the health promotion field used a Wii game as a tool to encourage people to participate in an activity and invited them to enter the competition to win an IPod Shuffle.

CQUniversity research could help set the standard for rail lubrication across Australia, following acknowledgement from industry leaders and consideration by the Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB).

The RISSB is responsible for development and management of rail industry standards, rules, codes of practice and guidelines, all of which have national application.

Education student Nadine Dempster once gave a vocal performance to open a diamond fashion house in Hong Kong. But otherwise her CV shows she's a real country girl at heart.

CQUniversity reef researcher Dr Alison Jones advocates a shift away from wild harvest towards aquaculture of coral, to avoid the risk of local extinctions of relatively rare corals favoured by America's aquarium trade.

Dr Jones' Raiding the Coral Nurseries? article in the journal diversity has already sparked interest in the general media, as it reveals a recent shift in the pattern of commercial harvest in the Keppel Island region.

CQUniversity's own 'Young Tall Poppy' Dr Mitch Duncan recently featured on a panel of scientists during an ABC National Science Week event: Sedentary Living is Killing Us.

The event was broadcast live from Canberra's Menzies Theatre at the National Convention Centre, to an estimated audience of half a million listeners on ABC Radio National.

A group of CQUniversity School of Nursing and Midwifery academics are proud as punch after winning a national publishing award, reflecting their contributions to a new Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook..

Congratulations to Associate Professor Mental Health Nursing Dr Anthony Welch whose publication entitled Mental Health Nursing: Dimensions of Praxis has won the Tertiary Education (wholly Australian) - Teaching and Learning Resource Category in the Australian Educational Publishing Awards..