The Process Engineering and Light Metals, PELM Centre at CQU’s Gladstone Marina Campus is to be part of the new CAST CRC, recently announced by Minister Brendan Nelson.

Australia’s manufacturing industry has received a significant boost with the creation of the CRC which will provide competitive advantage to Australia’s light metals industry.

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CQU's teaching staff will endeavour to adopt better practices after attending this year’s annual Teaching and Learning Showcase.

The Showcase, organised by the University’s Division of Teaching and Learning Services, has become an annual event held in February – just before the beginning of the first major teaching term.

Rain failed to deter eager students who attended this week’s information day for CQU’s Indigenous support centre, Nulloo Yumbah, at CQU Mackay.

The information sessions provided Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with alternative entry information and pathways to assist with gaining entry into university.

Central Queensland University is seeking a volunteer member of the public to provide a non-expert perspective to its BioSafety Committee.

CQU, like most modern universities, undertakes research and teaching using biological and chemical materials which can cause harm if not properly managed.

Emeritus Professor Glenice Hancock, who retired as Vice-Chancellor and President of CQU in 2004, has been named as a Member (AM) in the General Division in this week’s Australia Day honours list.

Professor Hancock, who has retired to Sydney, gained the award for service to educational administration through leadership and management roles in the tertiary and public school sectors.

Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music music theatre graduate Lucy Holmes (pictured courtesy of her website) is now the face of Channel Nine's new 'Starstruck' TV show.

Lucy is the focus of previews for the show and will be a contestant.

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Sixteen CQU Bachelor of Learning Management (BLM) students and staff have arrived back from a three-and-a-half-week language exchange program at Uslan, South Korea.

CQU has around 10,000 international students – many who face homesickness, loneliness and disorientation – yet only a few dozen from each campus cohort are falling through the cracks and dropping out each term.

An internal report from CQU’s Australian International Campus operation has mapped the challenges and success rates for retention at the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Gold Coast campuses.

CQU Noosa Hub graduate Maxine Crawford (pictured left) has been welcomed as teacher of the Year 2/3 class at Pomona State School by the school’s Head of Campus, Dr Gwen Sands, while Principal, Peter Bradford, is farewelled on long service leave.

Maxine performed her final-year prac placement at Pomona State School, and so impressed her mentors that they were delighted to have her fill a vacant position.