The first round of interviews for prospective recipients of the BMA Community and Indigenous Scholarship Program were held recently, in anticipation of the start of the university year.

Vincent Cosgrove (Head of External Affairs at BMA), Professor Pierre Viljoen (Pro Vice-Chancellor, Community & Engagement and Head of Campus CQUniversity Mackay) and Narelle Pearse (Regional Economic Development Corporation CEO) were part of the panel who met with students in Mackay to discuss their future study at CQUniversity.

The CQUniversity Cairns Distance Education Centre was a hive of activity recently as staff and student ambassadors welcomed new students.

The day was part of the CQUniversity-wide Orientation programs held in locations stretching from Cairns to Melbourne.

Mobility boosts students' fitness for the workplace, according to a visitor from one of Switzerland's top universities.

Professor Robert Buttery spoke with students and faculty at CQUniversity Rockhampton to encourage student exchanges with partner universities.

Four months of skills development, weight training and conditioning will be put to the test on Saturday when the 2012/13 CQUniversity Taipans Academy plays its first exhibition game.

The Academy, traditionally focused on individual development rather than squad training, will take on the under-18 North Queensland State team as it prepares for the national championships in April.

Film and Arts Mackay (FAM) will hold their monthly film night on Friday, March 1 at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM).

FAM will be showing French film Tomboy, which is about 10-year-old Laure and her family who move to a new neighbourhood during the summer.

Simulations training for recognising and responding to the patient who is deteriorating in hospitals has relied on the availability of expensive high-fidelity simulation training centres..

CQUniversity and headspace Mackay are banding together to support new and current university students to ensure they have access to support, information and services for their health and wellbeing..

CQUniversity said today the release of the university sector's first ever comprehensive higher education policy agenda, A Smarter Australia, is a pivotal step in ensuring that the central role of universities in Australia's future is recognised.

CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Scott Bowman has commended the statement to all political parties as they go about developing their respective policy positions on higher education in the lead up to the election.

CQUniversity is hosting a leading Japanese scientist who has been showing the way to create flexible, soft and light-weight electronics devices.

His ideas could spawn future generations of focus lens in cameras as well as 'artificial muscles' for robots.