CQU's Institute for Sustainable Regional Development has warned Queenslanders not to let record summer rainfalls trick them into forgetting that 'drought' is becoming the norm rather than the exception.

Executive Director Professor Bob Miles said the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) maintained its prediction that Australian would experience a near permanent El Nino-like mean state of hot, dry conditions.

The mistreatment of the human race inspired the creation of Artspace Mackay’s latest exhibition Four Elements of Apathy.

Created by local artists Martin Francis, May-Britt Mosshammer and Ashley Holmes the work seeks to highlight how minority groups are marginalised from mainstream society.

A gala concert on Saturday 20 March will be among the colourful events used to mark the 15th anniversary of the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music.

Since opening at the original Shakespeare Street site in 1989, the Conservatorium’s student numbers have increased from 20 students at one delivery site to approximately 450 students at 11 delivery sites in 2004.

Light rain failed to dampen the spirits of the 23 budding scientists who took part in CQU Mackay’s Siemens Science Experience.

The hands-on science, information technology and engineering activities attracted Year 10 students from Proserpine, Sarina, Richmond and Mackay schools over three days from Tuesday.

Budding young scientists attending the Siemens Science Experience at Central Queensland University Rockhampton may not look at KFC or Red Rooster the same way again.

CQU’s Dr Bob Newby served up an exciting practical workshop titled ‘Flights of Fancy’ for some of the 50 students visiting campus this week.

Students at Siemens Science Summer Experience at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton took playing with Lego to new heights.

Robotics expert and CQU lecturer Andrew Chiou introduced students to the world of autonomous robots – robotics capable of self-navigating and doing programmed tasks without human intervention.

CQU Press has won the annual Bush Poetry Festival's Book of the Year Award for 2004, anounced in Tamworth, with a collection of bush ballads and yarns called 'The Cattle Dog's Revenge'.

Author Jack Drake performed his bush poems from this book on centre stage in Tamworth earlier this month.

Central Queensland University honours graduate Paul Neilsen is heading to South Australia to research breast cancer genetics at the Hanson Institute and the University of Adelaide.

Mr Neilsen said he would have pursued his doctoral studies at Central Queensland University.

The new year has brought some new faces and the return of others not seen for a while at CQU Bundaberg.

Vicki Pascoe, the recently appointed Nulloo Yumbah Coordinator joins us from the Northern Territory's Charles Darwin University.

The year 2003 signed off with a bang for CQU Press.

The University’s publishing house launched a fascinating book of traditional Asian-Confucian family values versus western economic rationalism and commercial globalisation.