Uni staff, students, community members and representatives of religious faiths including Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Bahá'í attended the launch of a new Multi-Faith Centre which will literally bring spirituality closer to the heart of CQUniversity's Rockhampton Campus.

Located near the campus flagpoles, the Chancellery building and the bus-stop, the new Centre replaces a 'sacred garden building', which was not only tucked away in a remote part of campus, but was also in need of major repairs.

Millipede expert Dr Robert Mesibov, a research associate from the University of Tasmania, will be visiting Rockhampton in mid-March to collect millipedes. He and a German colleague are particularly chasing fresh specimens and DNA 'vouchers' of a millipede species last definitely collected in Rockhampton around 1866.

The Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research (CDFVR) located at CQUniversity Mackay will be the focus of Queensland's contribution to a new National Centre of Excellence to reduce violence against women and their children.

Queensland Communities Minister Tracy Davis announced that the CDFVR would receive $896,400 over the next three years earmarked to support the work of the new NCE, along with its annual funding from the Newman Government*.

The Japanese spring holidays have once again enabled plenty of visitors to converge on the English Language Centre on CQUniversity Rockhampton.

Dozens of students from the Toyo, Miyagi and Asahi universities have come on study tours, staying with local home-stay families while they learn English and sample tourism highlights for several weeks.

Ron Wallis has retired after 35 years employed at Rockhampton Campus, first as a student counsellor and later as a careers counsellor.

When he first arrived at CQUniversity's predecessor institution (Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education) in 1977, he was given a manual typewriter for routine 'office work' and a bottle of ink with nibbed pens to ensure a personal feeling for letters.

CQUniversity was represented at Health Workforce Australia's recent NHET-Sim* workshop held at Rockhampton Hospital.

The workshop was part of training for those who use (or intend to use) simulation as an educational method to develop healthcare students and professionals.

Agnes Water artist Marie Green has had great success turning her passion for telescopic views of 'deep sky objects' into brush strokes on her canvas.

Her 'Tarantula Nebula 2012' painting won last year's People's Choice $1000 prize sponsored by CQUniversity, as part of the Bayton Award exhibition at Rockhampton Regional Art Gallery.

Around 12 months ago, Toni-ann Liufalani moved with her husband and three kids from NSW to the remote island nation of Niue in the South Pacific, where the population is around 1500..

Marie Green's cosmic-themed oil painting Rosette Nebula (2011) was donated by the artist through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The painting is inspired by the Rosette Nebula, a cosmic cloud of gas and dust which evokes the image of a flower.

Rockhampton's young cyclists are not dwelling on drug cheat Lance Armstrong's spectacular fall from grace. They are just getting on with the job of racing fast.