A CQUniversity 'Students in Free Enterprise' group has won one of four Spirit of SIFE awards from the SIFE National Championships, held recently in Sydney.

CQUniversity Mackay SIFE presented projects they had worked on during the year, including the highly successful Mighty Foods Save the Circus and CHOICES.

CQUniversity is partnering with Education Queensland to expand and refurbish laboratory space at the North Keppel Island Environmental Education Centre..

CQUniversity koala researchers Delma Clifton and Gail Tucker are circulating a 'wanted poster' to gain information about koala sightings in the Central Queensland region.

They seek sightings "dead or alive", including the date and time and location to be reported via SMS 0402 292 136.

Rockhampton's CQUni Bike 4 Life event scheduled for Sunday, July 31 is an ideal opportunity for cyclists to set new goals, according to intending participant Trishia Cutler.

Trishia says she became aware of the event after taking on a new job relating to cycling facilities, as part of her role with the Department of Transport and Main Roads.

CQUniversity is offering a scholarship worth up to $70,000 for human resource research focused on a framework for mentoring and coaching as a workforce development strategy.

Applications close on Friday, with details available via Dr Roslyn Cameron on 07 4970 7627.

Occupational Health & Safety student Michelle Samson recently enjoyed a holiday in Fiji, thanks to being chosen as a finalist in a competition run by CQUni Student Association in conjunction with myOE UK*.

The competition was open to all university students from Australia and New Zealand and offered a trip to the UK based on a 100-word application, and two minute video, with finalists gathering in Fiji in the last week of May to compete for the big prize to the UK by making a '15 Seconds of Fame' video and also a 'Penny for your thoughts' photo relating to the UK.

A CQUniversity research paper has been awarded as the 'Best Poster' of the session, during the 8^th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT-2011) held in Mauritius in early July.

The paper was titled ‘The Post Combustion Carbon Capture and Storage in Existing Coal Power Plant: Importance and Recent Development' and was authored by postgraduate student Rasel Mahamud, Professor Masud Khan, Associate Professor Mohammad Rasul and industry supervisor Malcolm Leinster.

It all seemed so easy in the Back to the Future movies, as Emmett 'Doc' Brown shoved a banana peel and other garbage into his DeLorean time machine ready to engage the flux capacitor. In reality, scientists need a thorough experimental phase to work out how to turn plants into an effective biodiesel, and CQUniversity is establishing a research group drawing on plant scientists and engineers for this very purpose.

CQUniversity Communications students Michelle Dann and Luke Brownlow have organised a fundraising barbecue on Rockhampton Campus, as they embark on a work placement with the RSPCA..

Vice-Chancellor Scott Bowman made the most of a chance to chat informally with students during a Rockhampton Campus barbecue this week..