American academic Dr Elizabeth Malone has been visiting Rockhampton to collaborate with CQUniversity researchers working on social networks and climate change.

The CQUni team is leading a $280,000 project funded by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)*.

CQUniversity student Laura Hamlyn is having a busy month juggling preparations for a lead role in the musical Hairspray, supporting the new Catwalk Company and focusing on her studies in Professional Communication.

Laura is among many students, staff and alumni in the cast or crew for Hairspray, starting tonight at the Pilbeam Theatre and continuing until Sunday.

Video may have killed the radio star but can it also give people a new lease on life through physical activity?  That's a question that a CQUniversity-based research team is determined to answer over the next three years, thanks to a national research grant* worth almost $700,000..

It may look like a massive iPad or a clever coffee table, but CQUniversity has in fact purchased the software and hardware to run its first surface computer in the Rockhampton Campus Library.

Library staff are now helping academics come to terms with the potential of the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft Pixelsense interface as a teaching tool, or possibly even for specialised research.

Representatives from CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently networked with researchers from the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research (CDFVR) based at CQUniversity's Mackay Campus.

Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and BMA Chair in Indigenous Engagement, and Donna Smith from the Office of Indigenous Engagement recently visited the CDFVR team.

Mackay engineering students enrolled in the Engineering Skills 2 course at CQUniversity have benefited from a networking event, enabling them to present industry projects to external stakeholders and CQUniversity staff.

The first-year students have been involved with several industry projects with local clients or industry stakeholders who have been supervising the projects, along with CQUniversity's Senior Lecturer in Engineering Dr Arun Patil.

Women who have been taking SSRI antidepressants and women who have been experiencing sexual difficulties are being sought for a confidential interview with a sexuality researcher based in Queensland.

CQUniversity academic Cathy O'Mullan is doing the interviews as part of her PhD with Curtin University and would like to hear from Queensland women willing to be interviewed about their experiences.

The CQUniversity Cairns Distance Education Centre has been officially opened by Federal Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman took the opportunity to meet a number of the region's politicians, business leaders, stakeholders, alumni and student ambassadors at the event, while the Cairns High quartet band performed throughout the evening.

It was a rite of passage as 24 graduating engineering students made their final presentations and poster displays at CQUniversity Rockhampton recently.

The students have worked on real-world projects in industrial settings throughout Queensland and further afield, helping companies like Ergon Energy, Bechtel Australia, AngloAmerican, Yass Valley Council and the Wide Bay Water Corporation to improve their processes.