Central Queensland University in conjunction with the Rockhampton Mental Health Promotion committee will present the band BiPolar Bears on the Rockhampton campus to celebrate Mental Health Week and the end of the university term on Friday October 5.

The event will be staged on the Library Lawns from 2 to 4pm, where there will also be a sausage sizzle and a masseuse for staff and students.

Rockhampton water expert Ben Kele's wastewater treatment system is the cornerstone of a coastal community development which derives all its water from on-site sources and recycles its own waste.

Awarded for Excellence in Environmentally Sustainable Development from the Urban Development Institute of Australia (Qld), Sunrise at 1770 is a $22 million coastal development 10km from the Town of 1770, a beach township in Central Queensland.

A Central Queensland University research group has been awarded one of 5 prestigious national 2007 ACARP (Australian Coal Research Limited) Awards for Research Excellence.

The ACARP Awards are made every 2 years to research groups who have enjoyed scientific success and excellence in addressing a significant coal industry problem.

Nursing staff from Central Queensland University are outraged by the PM's proposed overhaul of nursing education, saying it is reactionary, ill-informed and damaging to the nursing profession and the quality of health care in Australia.

That is according to CQU's Professor of Contemporary Nursing Brenda Happell.

On the Sunshine Coast, students and teachers are building their understanding of Technology Education.

On Friday, September 14, Central Queensland University's Noosa Hub and Education Queensland Sunshine Coast Region worked together to give students and teachers hands-on experiences designing, making and evaluating a range of technologies and modeling quality classroom practice.