Last weekend's Central Queensland University graduation ceremonies in Rockhampton included graduates' closing addresses by two former female students.

The graduates' closing address for the morning ceremony was delivered by Brooke Veliscek (below), who graduated with 1st class Honours in her Bachelor of Engineering Co-op (Electrical) degree, and obtained the highest GPA of the female engineering student cohort.

Senior geography students from Biloela and Moura State high schools got their hands dirty on a recent field trip to Central Queensland University’s Gladstone campus this week.

The geography students spent a morning with CQU’s Centre for Environmental Management staff to learn more about real-life applications of geography.

Former Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music jazz student Jeremy Borthwick has been nominated for the 2003 National Jazz Awards.

Mr Borthwick is among 10 nominees competing for the national title at Australia’s premier jazz festival, the Traffic Accident Commission Wangaratta Festival of Jazz on the November 1 weekend.

CQU campuses have hosted mentor presentation evenings, with certificates awarded to recognise hard work during the year.

Some campuses also awarded Mentor of the Year prizes.

Coastal environments are naturally dynamic places, but the Australian love affair with the beach (where 86% of us now live) has dramatically accelerated the pace of biophysical change there.

That is according to CQU's Dr Steve Mullins, who will deliver a public seminar called 'Shifting Sands: Remembering Seascapes, and Learning to Live in Coast Communities", at CQU Rockhampton on Wednesday, October 29.

The Central Queensland University squash team won a bronze medal at the 2003 Australian University Games (AUG) held in Newcastle recently.

The team, consisting of Kevin Kidd, Tony Bernabei, Jason Kelly, Michael Beck and Jason Lindsay, defeated the University of New South Wales 4 - 0 in the play-off for third place.

Gladstone students from Central Queensland University’s first Bachelor of Learning Management class recently returned to campus to mark the end of their studies with a day of celebration.

The students were part of CQU’s inaugural intake of BLM students, an innovative degree program that marked a radical change in the delivery of teacher education programs in Queensland.

CQU Bundaberg has been asked to undertake a district-wide program to assist in the development of the new technology curriculum for schools (grades 1-10).

The program, which started with a two-day workshop at CQU this week, will include staff from over 20 schools (a total of 43 teachers) from across the district.

Staff at Central Queensland University’s Gladstone campus recently took the opportunity to learn how to use the University’s latest videoconferencing technology, an advanced computing video wall called an AccessGrid that displays an image 5.5metres by 1.

Leaders in the new field of 'community informatics' say that Australia's rural and regional communities can use information technology to transform their communities, their regions and themselves.

The leaders say that regional residents need to be proactive to take best advantage of the changing living circumstances brought about by IT, "which in its raw state is no respecter of place, culture, social cohesion or nation state boundaries".