Water resources student Daniel Hanisch has gone from being a jack of all trades in Australia to finding his life and career focus in China.

He's married his Chinese translator, has a young child and is now planning to straddle both continents as he develops his expertise in sustainable water management.

Sam Eborn from Gladstone and Daniel Gardner from Mackay have received head starts to their engineering careers after each receiving inaugural CQUniversity Australia and Queensland Resources Council (QRC) scholarships worth up to $40,000.

The scholarships aim to reward and encourage outstanding students who are embarking on an engineering or science career in the resources sector and were awarded earlier this month by CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman, during the University's Academic Prize and Scholarship Presentation.

It is hard to remember when and how a friendship starts. I am sure that Martand and I had rubbed shoulders over a number of years when both he and I were teaching at RMIT.

CQUniversity Bundaberg had such a good response to its ResearchExpo event that it is already considering conducting a follow-up later in the year. 

Organisers said many of the 50 audience members were glowing with praise and asked to be included in mailing lists for future events.

Congratulations to CQUniversity PhD student Janene Carey from Armidale (NSW) who is on the shortlist for Australia's premier essay prize, the 2010 Calibre Prize.

The shortlisted essay is a chapter from Janene's creative non-fiction writing project and it's about people's experiences of caring for a family member with a terminal illness.

A growing number of Australians and overseas students from as far afield as China and Cyprus are helping to ensure the bouyancy of a postgraduate program on sustainable water management.

CQUniversity is among the 5 Australian universities delivering content for the ICEWarRM suite of courses, showing that the driest continent on earth can produce top-notch water specialists.

CQUniversity engineering student Benjamin Heinrich doesn't mind getting his hands dirty. He's been working part-time as a labourer and concreter even as he makes great strides towards his chosen career as a civil engineer.

Uliana Slinko is a long way from her home country of Russia but she's making the most of the chance to learn at CQUniversity Rockhampton's English Language Centre this year.

Uliana is already getting involved in the community, successfully entering a Gladstone Regional Art Gallery competition, attending a fundraising event for Haitian earthquake victims and going on excursions to meet Australian animals.

CQUniversity PhD candidate Vineela Challagulla has come all the way from Hyderabad in India to spend 3 years checking if the often pesky pond pest known as microalgae could be viable as a biofuel.

Working with a University scholarship, the Rockhampton-based researcher is seeking the most viable species of microalgae and the best growth conditions.