CQU Senior Lecturer in Law Robert Fisher has solicited help from a side-kick called 'Robolawyer' to give his video lecture summaries a special spark.

The Robolawyer device started out wearing a legal wig but now appears in a variety of different comedy clothes as Mr Fisher 'chats' to him on screen.

CQU Associate Professor Karl Neuenfeldt has been active in music recording projects as part of his long-term interest in Indigenous music and performance.

A CD co-produced by him has been featured throughout a recent episode of ABC television's Message Stick program in a feature on the Lockhart River Art Centre on Cape York.

Tasmanian Judi Parson is enrolled in a university based in Rockhampton, has a collaborator in Melbourne, has supervisors in Brisbane, Hobart and New York and recently attended a conference in Korea where she was approached to teach in Taiwan.

The Central Queensland University doctoral student with a background in paediatric nursing is researching how nurses can use play to reduce fear and distress of child patients, in collaboration with educational play therapists.

CQU doctoral researcher Christina Hunt has unearthed a treasure trove of regional history thanks to the ABC enabling access to 2 decades of TV videotape archives of local news and current affairs stories.

The archives span the period from 1963 to 1985 when a significant amount of broadcast material emanated from the Rockhampton studios including some before the advent of a microwave link from the south.

Pink food, pink outfits and a pink scalp were all part of a Pink Ribbon fundraising effort at the Gladstone campus recently.

Staff purchased merchandise and held a lunchtime barbecue with pink desserts followed by the shaving of Building Officer, Dennis Simon's hair.

Former Burmese academic Than Than Nwe, now based at CQU Rockhampton, has been interviewed for ABC Radio's 'Way of Peace' program, due to be broadcast on Radio National in November.

The geography lecturer and long-time Rockhampton resident can be heard on the 'Encounter' program on Sunday, November 4 at 7.

Over 1000 people visited the Kele Bros Food and Hospitality Trade Expo at the CQU Sports Centre in Rockhampton last week (Wednesday 24 October).

This was the third expo for the region, but the first hosted at CQU.