Papua New Guinean computing specialist Lorna Denema will join around 230 graduates travelling from throughout Central Queensland, Australia and overseas to attend their ceremony at CQUniversity Rockhampton Campus.

Helped by an AusAid scholarship, Lorna is proud to have completed her Master of Information Technology with Distinction, helping to develop her career as a lecturer at the Divine Word University in PNG.

Mackay nursing students Kahla Edwards and Brittany Power are developing their skills and experience in their chosen career thanks to support from an annual scholarship program that is now open for 2012 applications.

Since 2009, the Hail Creek Mine CQUniversity Partnership Program has been offering scholarships worth $4000 each over two years to first-year nursing, health, business, science, IT, and engineering students.

CQUniversity Mackay recently hosted representatives from seven aged care facilities throughout the Bowen to Sarina zone. A representative from Aged Care Queensland's Brisbane office also joined the campus tour.

'Judith, Stuart and Friends' is a free concert series held at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music Theatre on the Mackay Campus of CQUniversity, and opens a year of exciting music and theatrical events.

Featuring CQUniversity senior lecturer Judith Brown playing the exquisite Stuart and Sons concert grand piano, these concerts continue to delight audiences of all ages.

CQUniversity adjunct research fellow Jennifer Marohasy recently delivered an address to the Sydney Institute, calling on estuary restoration to save the Murray River.

Ms Marohasy says the Australian Government's $10 billion plan to save the Murray-Darling by reconfiguring upstream irrigation so that more water is sent to the Lower Lakes, Murray's mouth and Coorong is based on a narrative about the Murray's mouth closing-over and Lake Alexandrina drying-up because of greedy upstream irrigators taking too much water.

Senior Lecturer at CQUniversity Noosa Dr Sue Davis is also Chair of the UNESCO-endorsed Noosa Biosphere Reserve.

As part of their recent planning activities for the year, local community members, councillors and staff worked in the new collaborative teaching space at Noosa Campus.

The Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research at CQUniversity has commended Minister Karen Struthers on the introduction and passage of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 early last night (Dec 16).

The legislation received bi-partisan support.

Visiting French student Angele Lecacheur has only seen the captive koalas at Rockhampton Zoo so far, but she's preparing to see their wild cousins on the islands off Mackay.

Angele's six-month internship experience with CQUniversity koala researcher Dr Alistair Melzer will form part of her Master of Biology - Terrestrial Ecosystems program based at her home institution, the University of Orleans, about one hour's drive from Paris.

Winners of the 2012 Vice-Chancellor's Academic Excellence Scholarships have great prospects in their chosen professions or as academic researchers.

That's according to CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman.