With growing potential for operational and maintenance cost savings as well as a reduction in greenhouse gases, now's the time for Australian industries to give serious consideration to adopting hybrid electric systems for heavy machinery..

Our Uni Bookshop has agreed to stock copies of a new DVD based on a project entitled Romancing the Stone from Cinderella to Waltzing Matilda: A Snapshot of the Sapphire and Opal Industries of Central Queensland. The DVDs will cost $25 each.

Grant Farrell and Keri Wilson from Facilities Management have put their recent training in snake handling into real-life practice. 

A harmless but feisty black tree snake ventured into the foyer of Building 37 on Rockhampton Campus - just a few steps away from both staff members.

A group of women in senior positions at CQUniversity come together for breakfast each month and have been doing so for the past 12 months.

The founder of the Senior Women's Network Breakfast, Barbara Lawrence, said the initial purpose of the networking group was to give busy women holding down senior positions at CQUniversity the opportunity to come together to enjoy each other's company outside of the hectic pace of the workplace; to network with other motivational women from the local community; and to provide an opportunity for mentoring of rising stars at CQUniversity.

A range of consultate representatives featured at CQUniversity's Sydney Town Hall graduation ceremony this week (Dec 14).

The VIP guests witnessed the ceremony catering for 294 graduates representing around 40 different nationalities, from almost all points of the globe.

Twenty-six nationalities were represented when 201 graduates attended CQUniversity's ceremony in Brisbane this week (Dec 13) at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on South Bank.

Graduates attending came from diverse backgrounds, ranging from Australia to Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Five Gladstone region high school students recently took a step closer to realising their dreams of becoming engineers..

Creative Enterprise student Jenny Gilbertson has a plumb job waiting when she returns from a semester of study at New Mexico State University. She'll be a Community Arts Officer, based at Childers but working at both Childers and Bundaberg galleries.

During her 35 years employment at CQUniversity, Patricia Lieschke has certainly seen, and been a part of, many changes.

Patricia first joined as a clerk in 1975 when the institution was known as the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education.

Megan Star may have roots in the farming lands of inland New South Wales, but her passion has been captivated by the coastal areas of Central Queensland and the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef.

Life as a primary industries economist has seen the 25-year-old work in some remote rural Australian communities, including the Northern Territory, but in recent years she has called Rockhampton and the Capricorn Coast home.