Year 12 students from Whitsunday Anglican School (WAS) visited Central Queensland University (CQU) Mackay this week, to get a taste for what their local university has to offer.

Following a welcome presentation, the cohort of 72 students was split into two groups for the remainder of the visit, which included tours of the library, the Cook Lecture Theatre, ISL rooms, tutorial rooms, computer labs and refectory.

As far as O-Week activities go, the Pirate Interfaculty Games at CQU Mackay this week was a pretty good one.

The brainchild of Leeanne Kippen of the Student Association (who inherited the theme Welcome Aboard when she commenced on campus just 4 weeks ago) was a great success and thoroughly enjoyed by both participants and spectators alike.

CQU Gladstone’s newest students' first official day as university undergraduates began with a welcome ceremony on Tuesday morning.

Gladstone Head of Campus, Associate Professor Robert Prater welcomed the students to the university and wished them well on their journey as tertiary students.

Thanks to a CQU grant, the Rockhampton Chinese Association is undertaking a ‘renovation rescue’ on a 106–year-old Chinese building and its artefacts.

Joss House on Bedford Street North Rockhampton has witnessed some quiet periods over the years, particularly when the Chinese culture and customs were frowned upon in the region.

Central Queensland University is facing an accommodation shortage for its arriving international students.

Over the next couple of weeks about 40 students are due to arrive who the University has so far been unable to find accommodation for.

The Administrator of the Northern Territory, His Honour Ted Egan AO hosted a reception and book launch at the Northern Territory Government House on Thursday February 23 for the CQU Press title: 'Indigenous Community Development and Employment'.

Over 40 people responded to special invitations including the Vice-Chancellor of Charles Darwin University (CDU), Professor Helen Garnett PSM and Ross Springolo of CDU.

Three CQU Press outback authors were honoured at a reception by the Honourable Ted Egan AO, Administrator of the Northern Territory, at Government House in Darwin on Friday February 24.

The three authors and their books were:.

The Regional Health Research Alliance (RHRA) will distribute more than $44,000 amongst 18 health research projects in Central Queensland.

The grants have been allocated under the Alliance’s Research Skills and Micro-Grant Program, which aims to encourage and support health research in the region.

Up to 20 Rockhampton performing arts students will fill assistant production roles for Melbourne's Commonwealth Games, which start in mid-March.

The Bachelor of Performing Arts students (pictured) from Central Queensland University are being seconded for industry experience with the river stage events, medal ceremony staging and the staging and management of the opening and closing ceremonies.

CQU's Professor Alan Knight has been advising a Chinese university on how to deal with plagiarism.

Professor Knight spent 5 years chairing the University's Appeal Committee which has the final say on cheating cases at CQU.