The CQU Postgraduate Students’ Organisation (PSO) invites submissions for the 2005 awards for excellence.

These awards reward excellent work demonstrated by postgraduate students, and their supervisors, at CQU.

CQU is helping to organise a conference called 'Circles of Compassion: Human-Animal Relationships, Welfare & Wellbeing', due to be held from December 1-2 at Rydges Capricorn Resort, Yeppoon.

Dr Nik Taylor said this conference aims to bring together academics, service providers, frontline workers and other interested parties to share information on links between human directed abuse and animal directed abuse.

CQU contributed a University float to the recent street parade commemorating the 150th anniversary of Rockhampton's settlement.

CQU Rockhampton academics Dr Greg Whymark, Louise Hawkins, Jim Callan and Dr Deborah Peach have contributed to a book based on abstracts accepted for the First Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR).

The Congress will be held in Sevilla, Spain, from September 20-24 this year.

Accomplished freelance director and acting lecturer, Mr Peter Ross, is currently in Mackay to work with students from the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM).

Peter, who recently directed some of the CQCM Bachelor of Performing Arts students in the Pilbeam Theatre’s production of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ in Rockhampton, will be in Mackay for 3 weeks.

It’s estimated 80% of Australians are employed in some form of service industry, yet only 3 out of 10 people are ‘off the street naturally capable’ for customer service roles.

That is according to test results from a new Australian-developed Customer Service Predictor (CSP) tool being rolled out throughout the world.

GSK Australia is offering support grants for PhD and Post Doctorate students to help improve the outcomes or educational benefits of their research in the field of human health.

GSK Australia will offer six grant awards up to $30,000 over two years to PhD or Post Doctorate students.

You don’t have to be a ‘Pom’ to enjoy the Last Night of the Proms.

It may not be the Royal Albert Hall in London, but for one night the Mackay Entertainment Centre will play host to the classics as the Mackay Choral Society and their 50-person choir present a Proms concert of their own.

The CQU Mackay annual book sale is on again this weekend, with a wide range of books selling for next to nothing.

The sale, which is held in the CQU Mackay refectory, includes close to 10,000 items donated by the public and various libraries.

Students from the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music are fortunate this week to receive a visit from New Zealand’s most worldly jazz export Malcolm McNeill.

Malcolm McNeill is one of New Zealand’s best loved and top selling performers with 9 recordings to his credit, and is the only artist to have recorded a popular duet album with acclaimed Opera Diva Kiri Te Kanawa - for which he wrote the title song 'Heart to Heart'.