CQUniversity's business, industry, government, NGO and academic linkages for its new 2012 tourism degrees have extended into the heart of the South Pacific.  

In his current research on tourism and international development outcomes in the Pacific Islands, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Steve Noakes has been supported by a leading world tourism academic, Professor David Harrison, Head of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, and his team at the Suva-based University of the South Pacific.

Welcome to January 2012, which marks the 10th anniversary of UniNews in its format as an online newsletter.

Before 2002, UniNews was distributed via email.

The International Business Times has announced that two CQUniversity graduates have been added to the 'exclusive ranks' for membership of Stanford Who's Who, which bills itself as the world's largest premiere networking resource for career professionals.

Physics graduate Guy Wilmington is currently serving as Director of Project Services with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, overseeing delivery of all IT projects.

CQUniversity MBA graduate Vereimi Levula has been appointed as the Chief Manager of the Financial Systems Development and Compliance Group within the Reserve Bank of Fiji.

Mr Levula, who gained his CQUni degree in 1993, had been acting in this position since February 7, 2011.

Several presenters for a recent 'Coal Seam Gas and Water' short course in Brisbane are associated with CQUniversity.

Twenty-three participants from most Australian states attended the International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM) course, which was aimed at CSG producers, environmental mangers, regulators, researchers and water users.

A man who started out as a kindergarten assistant and farm labourer is now getting worldwide recognition for potentially lifesaving research in the field of breast cancer diagnosis.

Peter McLeod's never been one to rest on his laurels though.

CQUniversity has unveiled its grand vision for a more sustainable Gladstone, with plans for a number of cutting-edge developments to tackle the region's most pressing issues..

Louise Byrne has a confident manner, with neat and stylish glasses, hair and clothing and a strong grasp of academic terms.

But it's the more shambolic aspects of her life that make her particularly valuable as a lecturer, who may be involved in a world's-first format for the teaching of undergraduate nursing students.

Kelley Stone began studying her Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology externally through CQUniversity back in 2007. She moved away from her original research topic, instead focusing on the rate of depression in people with coeliac disease.

Phil Honeywood was born in Sydney in 1960. At the conclusion of his secondary school studies, he was awarded a one-year Rotary Youth Exchange scholarship to the Japanese Royal family's private school, Gakushuin Boys High.