CQUniversity is helping deliver a Master of Water Resources Management program which is so popular that student numbers have nearly doubled in three years.

PhD researcher Ben Kele provides lectures for the program through CQUniversity's partner role with ICE WaRM, the International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management.

Growing up in Bundaberg, Nicole Batchler had no family connection to engineering but felt a strong desire to build things.

Now in her mid-30s, Nicole is being tipped as a future construction industry leader after becoming the first woman to gain the prestigious Tom Carn Memorial Future Leaders Bursary.

Central Queenslanders will now be able to have their health needs better met with the formation of a regional Hospital and Health Board.

The initiative is part of the Newman Government's commitment to improved health services in Queensland, giving regions across the state the power to lobby for health services most needed in their communities.

World-renowned jazz trumpeters Jeff Jarvis and Don Rader and Aussie drums stalwart John Morrison (brother of James) will visit Rockhampton in late July and early August, in conjunction with a schools jazz festival and a CQUniversity student concert..

CQUniversity's Richard Egelstaff has been awarded the Project Management Institute's Distinguished Contribution Award 2012, as part of the organisation's Australian National Awards program.

Mr Egelstaff is a senior lecturer and the postgraduate program coordinator for Project and Program Management*, which has been acknowledged as crucial to the resource and infrastructure sectors.

CQUniversity will host the Sunshine Coast Koala Summit, scheduled to be held at the Noosa Campus in Goodchap Street, Noosaville, on August 7-8. 

The University is also listed among key supporters, alongside Noosa Biosphere, Sunshine Coast Council, Noosa News and the Sheraton Noosa.

As CQUniversity's new Dean of the School of Engineering and Built Environment, Professor Euan Lindsay is excited to take his school's prestige to the next level.

Professor Lindsay joins the University from Western Australia's Curtin University, a single-campus institution based in Perth.

CQUniversity students who completed their course evaluations in Term 1 recently had the option to enter into a prize draw to win an iPad (3rd generation) or one of 300 x $20 iTunes vouchers.

The Office of Learning and Teaching has congratulated Rhiannon Schmidt on being the winner of the iPad.

CQUniversity Multimedia student Jason Craddock has taken out the People's Choice Award at the 2012 Australia and New Zealand SimTecT Serious Games Showcase and Challenge held in Adelaide recently.

He received the award as recognition of his development of the Intonation Realisation 'app', developed during his study of DGTL13002 Mobile Application Development in his Bachelor of Multimedia Studies.

Staff at CQUniversity Rockhampton donned their best bandanas and gold hoop earrings and replaced hands for hooks at last week's pirate themed staff networking and fundraising event..