Forty-three Central Queensland University students will graduate at a ceremony in Gladstone this Saturday May 20, from 11:30am.

The official ceremony will begin with a procession of the graduates and staff, from in front of the Gladstone City Council chambers at 11:15am to the Entertainment Centre where the formal ceremony will take place.

The elegantly-dressed guests arrived by water taxi across the stunning moonlit Sydney Harbour.

The butlers took their coats, and bottles of champagne popped and bubbled in the background.

Under the initiative of Dr Amoakoh Gyasi-Agyei at the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Health, CQU has recently inaugurated a student branch of the IEEE (Institute for Electrical & Electronic Engineers).

The IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of engineering and technology, and it's a global organisation.

CQU's Dr Lynda Hawryluk, lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies, is once again looking forward to being the Writer in Residence at the annual Writers' Workshop.

The workshop, held each year at the Environmental Education Centre on North Keppel Island, is sponsored by the Regional Centre of the Arts (CQU).

On Wednesday May 10, 21 Business Communication and Technology students from The Cathedral College visited CQU’s faculty of Business and Informatics to learn about business programs.

Philip Bell, Manager of Student Services, gave the business students detailed information about the programs on offer at CQU, to help them make the right choice after leaving school.

IPP-SHR (International Program for Psycho-Social Health Research) is pleased to announce its new website.

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Acclaimed bass player Peter Walters (pictured) has arranged to join leading jazz vocalist and trumpeter Vince Jones, saxophonist Graham Jesse and a busload of jazz talent for a tour of Queensland, including 8 FREE concerts in June.

The concerts presented by ABC Local Radio and Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (part of CQU) will be at Hamilton Island (Saturday, June 10, 'Masters of Fare' expo at entrance to the Island's main pool, noon); Mackay (Sunday, June 11, Entertainment Centre, 3pm); Emerald (Tuesday, June 13, Emerald Town Hall, 7.

The New South Wales Attorney-General and Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Bob Debus launched 2 CQU Press books on the 11th floor of the CQU-Sydney Graduate School last Thursday, May 11.

Places are still available in CQU’s Accelerated STEPS program which will run from July until early October.

Information sessions were recently held at the Gladstone campus with another session still to be held in early June.

CQU PhD student Greg Smith has had an article on gender imbalance in the PR industry published in the Amercian-based 'PR News' magazine.

Mr Smith, who is supervised by Professor Alan Knight, based the article on his PhD study into 'The Predominance of Women in PR' and notes "there never has been a better (or worse) time to be a male PR practitioner".