Applications for funding are invited from the Central Queensland arts community for projects in 2006.

Central Queensland University’s (CQU) Regional Centre of the Arts (RCotA) encourages the development of all forms of the arts in Central Queensland.

Central Queensland University has awarded 12 commendable secondary school students with Co-operative Engineering Scholarships.

The Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health will provide the Year 12 students from Gladstone, Mackay, Rockhampton and Bundaberg with scholarships to the value of $1000 once they enrol in the CQU Bachelor of Engineering (Co-op) program.

CQU Performing Arts student Dayna Fox will this weekend compete in Sydney alongside six other finalists for the 2006 Global Dance Award.

The winner will receive a class scholarship in Los Angeles with a variety of skilled teachers and choreographers as well as a return flight to US and spending money.

Central Queensland University welcomed the release of the AUQA Audit Report as the University continues significant organisational change and capacity building.

“The report is very much aligned with our own analysis and activities these last two years, before the audit.

The Department of Main Roads has launched a $7000 scholarship deal with Central Queensland University to attract more year 12 students to study civil engineering.

Minister for Transport and Main Roads Paul Lucas said the program targeted students keen to study engineering.

CQU Melbourne-based Colin Riley, from C Management Services Sales and Recruitment, found an unusual way of using his annual leave.

Instead of visiting the exotic Bahamas, he spent a month looking after that country's officials and athletes in the Commonwealth Games Village.

The Easter weekend is a busy time in Gladstone with numerous events being held around the region, including the annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race.

This year the official race presentations were held at the Gladstone campus in the Rex Metcalfe Lecture theatre.

The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale will soon sweep through Mackay with the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music’s (CQCM) production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

A show for young and old alike, the CQCM production is based on the traditional story of Cinderella and her wicked step sisters, but this time it has been given a distinctly Australian flavour as we recall our own Princess Mary of Tasmania and her Cinderella like transformation into a Princess of Denmark.

The President of the Australian Senate, Senator the Hon Paul Calvert, invites entries for the Richard Baker Senate Prize, valued at $3000, for the best essay, article, thesis, dissertation, book or journalism (in any medium) relating to the work of the Australian Senate.

The prize is awarded annually and seeks to promote the knowledge of the Australian Senate and its work.

CQU will be able to perform faster and better research simulations thanks to a 7-times boost in its advanced computing capabilities.

Australian Research Council funding will provide more than 700 gigaflops of raw computational performance - a new ‘computational cluster’ of at least 44 double-processing computing units and associated equipment based in Rockhampton.