CQU's first Indigenous PhD graduate Maria Raciti is among 210 Australian teachers to receive citations for outstanding contributions to student learning.

Her Carrick Award citation recognises her for 'creating a successful relational learning environment for business students of all abilities".

CQU Nursing academics Kerry Reid-Searl, Dr Trudy Dwyer, Dr Lorna Moxham and Jacqueline Ryan are happy with sales of their new book, the \'Student Nurse Clinical Survival Guide\'.

Dr Moxham, who is Head of the School of Nursing & Health Studies, said the team had a second book \"on the proposal table already\".

Recent workshops at CQU Bundaberg by a team of science educators from Florida State University introduced teachers and pre-service teachers to Great Explorations in Mathematics and Science (GEMS).

Funded by the National Science Foundation of America, the team consisted of Dr Ellen Granger, Todd Bevis and Robin Smith, who were accompanied by 2 middle school teachers and a team of science graduate students.

Rail CRC, headquartered at CQU Rockhampton, is pleased to launch a new and improved website to capture the research achievements of the past 5 years.

This is for the benefit of the Centre's industry participants and the Australian rail industry as a whole.

All interested people are welcome at a free talk on 'Limitations to Success: The Body and Achieving Peak Performance', from 7pm on Wednesday, August 23, at CQU Rockhampton (building 18).

The talk is the latest in the 2006 Sport Science Series, hosted by the School of Health & Human Performance.

The Golden Key International Honour Society is this week celebrating 5 years of having a chapter at CQU, and its award of 'Silver Standing' within the global organisation.

Chapter president Constance Moore has arranged a celebration from 5pm Thursday, July 27, at the CQU Rockhampton Sacred Garden.

Bundaberg-based Stephen Grubb's research demonstrated the relationship between workplace bullying and employees' job satisfaction and intention to leave.

In Australia, limited empirical research has been conducted on professional groups.

Nominations are now being taken for the 2006 Central Queensland Junior Robotics Competition, to be held in the Drama Studio at CQU Rockhampton, on Sunday, August 20, with over $3000 in prizes to be won.

It’s open for both Primary and Secondary school students, under 3 separate categories; soccer, dance and rescue.

The Gladstone campus was busier than normal this week with the start of the Unilink 2006 program.

Seventy-five students attended classes in Learning Management, Marketing, Journalism and Social & Cultural Analysis.

CQU Faculty of Business and Informatics is presenting informative sessions on property, business, accounting, procurement and information technology.

The session form part of the CQU Open Day and Multicultural Fair on Sunday, August 13, they will be held in Building 19, Room G.