Central Queensland University is moving forward with confidence and growing enrolments after being benchmarked, audited and awarded at national and State levels.

The Rockhampton-based University has undergone a major restructure of faculties and is renewing course options to help its Queensland regional campuses keep pace with its Australian capital city and overseas international campuses, the growth of which have contributed to an overall vibrancy and viability of the institution.

CQU Information Technology Division will be represented at HP Enterprise's Asia Pacific Media Summit in Singapore next week (July 4-6).

Adrian Yarrow, Manager - Corporate Systems, will be involved in round table discussions and will be called on to deliver a presentation on CQU's use of HP technology.

CQU Press is currently promoting 'The Outback vs The Wild West' (The Wild West in Australia and America, Volume 2) by Jack Drake, which is available for $33.95.

CQU Press publisher Professor David Myers this week announced that the Press had again won an award of $8000 from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for 2006-2007.

"These are hotly contested and very prestigious awards won against nationwide competition," he said.

This week, the Hon. De-Anne Kelly, member for Dawson, officially welcomd twenty four Korean students to the CQU Mackay Campus by presenting the group with an Australian flag.

The CQU Rockhampton Language Centre will be running Chinese and Spanish classes again in Term 2.

The classes are scheduled to start in the week beginning on July 10 and are expected to run on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

Central Queensland University is this week starting to undertake maintenance work and a stonework audit on the fagade of the Old Post Office in East Street.

This is preliminary work, costing around $1 million, ahead of a decision on the timing of large-scale renovations to the heritage-listed building.

The Faculty of Business and Informatics this week hosted a research seminar entitled 'Emotion in the Organisation: a multilevel perspective', presented by Professor Neal Ashkanasy.

Neal Ashkanasy is Professor of Management in the Business School at the University of Queensland, and Research Director for the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law.

CQU is providing sponsorship, $3000 worth of scholarships and a performance venue for the inaugural SunWater and Stanwell Winter Music School to be held next week in Rockhampton (June 2-8).

The Statewide music school features the Southern Cross Soloists, supported by some of the finest musicians and teachers in Australia.

PhD candidate Kartik Venkatraman monitors hundreds of gauges, sensors and probes measuring dozens of different parameters in order to track the performance of 21 native tree species growing in 2 different soil depths at the Rockhampton landfill.

The project is trying to define the best mix of trees and soil depth to reduce leaching of water and methane emission from the rubbish below ground.