The boys from the bush may be back in town but Beef 2003 will start with the strains of a Stringfest, not a country band.

The Stringfest in the Chapel concert this Saturday night (April 26) is a lead-up to the massed orchestral items planned for the Beef 2003 Opening Ceremony at Rockhampton Showgrounds on Sunday April 27.

The School of Health & Human Performance (HHP) is holding a string of Sports Science Information Sessions for all university students and the general public.

Sessions will be held monthly from May through till December and will discuss current issues and research in the areas of sports psychology, sports physiology, biomechanics, risk management and sports sociology.

The hell lights, Natasha Ryan and Russell Crowe have made Rockhampton a second home for the national media during April.

A more serious-minded media scrum will descend towards the end of the month to cover Beef 2003.

The aftermath of a fatal accident at an underground coal mine will be played out as a hypothetical coronial inquest.

This unique learning experience hosted by Central Queensland University brings together a magistrate, a senior barrister with extensive experience in court cases involving mine related accidents, senior company officers, mines inspectors, industry safety and health representatives and expert witnesses.

Most of our media and many of our cultural institutions are city based and city oriented. In practice, most ideas emanating from the rural other are largely ignored by what’s called the mainstream.

RSL Capricornia Sub-branch member Ian Power is on his way to Turkey to wear the national number one runner’s bib for the Lest We Forget Run.

The 76-year-old will participate in the eight kilometre run right where the Anzac legend began at Gallipoli, Turkey.

CQU opened its doors to the public on Wednesday, 16 April for a tour of several CBD buildings occupied by the University and the Virgil Power building which houses the magistrate, district and supreme courts.

CQU Foundation’s Glenys Kirkwood organised the City Campus tour to give the community an insight into how some of Rockhampton’s most notable landmarks are used and also display an area that is usually closed to the public.

Easter festivities prompted the charitable Office of Research to donate hundreds of Easter Eggs to Wahroonga Family Counselling Centre yesterday. Research training and projects officer, Dearne Mayer said the staff were planning their own Easter Egg hunt when a colleague suggested collecting eggs for the Skyring Street centre’s disadvantaged children.

Central Queensland schools are invited to participate in the RoboCup Junior Workshop at Rockhampton State High School from the 6 to 9 May.

The workshops are a joint initiative between the Central Queensland University, University of Queensland and Rockhampton State High School.

Central Queensland University PhD student Sandrine Makiela is researching the cause of a dieback condition that affects buffel grass.

On one property 200 acres of improved pasture have been lost to this condition over the past three years.