Mackay is now home to internationally acclaimed piano virtuoso Mark Gasser.

Mark has travelled the world as a concert pianist and performed and broadcast in the world’s leading concert venues, from Prague to Salzburg, Moscow to New York.

Graduates from CQU have an overall median annual salary of $43,000, compared with the overall national and State median annual salary of $40,000.

That is according to data submitted to the Graduate Careers Council of Australia, tracing the destinations of first-degree Australian graduates working full-time.

More than 30 employers presented at CQU’s Showcase of Graduate Employers over 5 days last month in Rockhampton.

The employers presented Powerpoint presentations providing students with a more in-depth understanding of their companies’ profiles, graduate development programs, and further employment opportunities.

Newly arrived PhD student Ajay Krishnamurthy receives his winning ticket to Keppel Island from Kathy Ramm, Manager, International Systems and Compliance, CQU International.

The day trip to Keppel Island on Saturday April 8 will be one of the many social events organized by the International Student Alliance (ISA) group.

Emeritus Professor John Cheffers and Professor Ken Hawkins, Chief General Manager International Campuses, presented their joint paper “Force and Persuasion” at the recent 13th Commonwealth International Sports Conference held in Melbourne.

The Conference brings together members of the academic community, professional organisations and practitioners from the sports industry to discuss sport leadership and management, sport science and medicine, sport coaching and physical education, within the general theme “People, Participation and Performance”.

Two visiting librarians from Virginia, USA, recently toured the Central Queensland University (CQU) Library in Mackay and the Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, as part of a Group Study Exchange (GSE) sponsored and organised by the Port of Mackay Rotary Club and the Rotary Club of Virginia.

The visiting librarians, Shaunna Hunter and Rebekah Hartberger, both of Virginia, are part of a group of 5 Rotary sponsored visiting professionals who are visiting operations in their chosen vocation; as well as learning and enjoying the cultural aspects of life in Queensland.

Some people will go to great lengths for fundraising these days, but Richie Wright would have to be the bravest. Richie, a third year nursing student at Central Queensland University Bundaberg, has decided to ‘bare all’ to raise money for the upcoming Relay For Life.

Year 11 students from Chanel College visited the CQU Gladstone campus this week to experience the university lifestyle.

The students spent the day attending lectures and tutorials which had been designed and prepared especially for their visit.

In a significant milestone for railway signal engineering education, the Rail CRC-developed Postgraduate Diploma of Railway Signalling, offered by Central Queensland University (CQU), has been accepted by the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) in the UK as an appropriate equivalent qualification when applying for corporate membership of the IRSE.

The IRSE is the professional body for railway signalling engineers, based in the UK, with members throughout the world including Europe, Asia and North America.

In an Australian first, CQU is recognising the international importance of psycho-social aspects of health research.

A range of current and developing research projects have been consolidated into a new program - IPP-SHR (International Program of Psycho-Social Health Research).