Year 10 Siemens scientists of the future enjoyed the practical experience of being able to search deep inside the heart and lungs of a bull this week during the Siemens Science Experience at CQU Mackay.

The students participated in biology and health workshops as well as fieldwork, such as tracking koalas in a Melaleuca forest, exploring mangroves and inter-tidal studies.

Nurses are playing a vital role in saving seriously ill patients in hospital wards across Australia, according to a CQU researcher.

PhD student and registered nurse, Trudy Dwyer said that since the introduction of Medical Emergency Teams (MET) in hospitals around Australia the survival rate of patients who have arrested has improved.

Rockhampton’s Raylee Whalen will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree next month (February 26), 14 years after first enrolling for university study.

The Aboriginal woman has drawn on all her perseverance and determination despite facing challenges well beyond the academic content of the degree.

More than 20 teams have registered for the 2005 Rockhampton Relay for Life event, due to be held at CQU Rockhampton's athletics track on the weekend of May 14-15.

Relay for Life is a fundraiser for the Queensland Cancer Fund.

Central Queensland University encourages Australian South Sea Islander tertiary students to apply for a scholarship to help further their education.

The Queensland Government, in conjunction with Central Queensland University, is offering a tertiary education scholarship through the Australian South Sea Islander Community Foundation.

A Central Queensland University study into an arsenic-eating fern has revealed its ability to grow on arsenic contaminated sites in Central Queensland.

The recent findings that the arsenic-eating fern (syn Chinese Brake fern) can help remediate thousands of arsenic contaminated sites triggered intensive research on the fern throughout the world, including here in Central Queensland.

The Smart State's nine universities this week (Tuesday, Oct 26) signed a historic document formally committing their institutions to discrimination-free education and renewed respect for cultural diversity.

"Our universities provide a critical gateway to and from the rest of the world and are vital in helping the Government implement our Multicultural Queensland Policy as widely as possible," Mr Beattie said.

CQU Gladstone Head of Campus, Associate Professor Robert Prater has been appointed to the Gladstone Economic and Industry Development Board (GEIDB).

Associate Professor Prater (pictured) said the appointment to such a key Government board showed CQU was regarded as a critical element of industrial development in Gladstone.

If you were a HECS student in 2004 or earlier and are continuing study in the same program in 2005, you must complete and return to Central Queensland University a Request for Commonwealth support and HECS-HELP - pre- 2005 form.

This form was sent to you in your re-registration package, along with the Information for Commonwealth supported students 2005 booklet.

A photographic exhibition featuring vivid colour photographs taken at the Bingera and Millaquin Sugar Mills and at cane fires in the Bundaberg/Burnett region will be featured at CQU Bundaberg until the end of March.

A selection of black and white documentary images of some of the workers at Bingera Mill is also included in the exhibition, which is entitled 'sweet as.