Around 90 CQUniversity students took part in the inaugural Mackay Student Residences Professorial Lecture and dinner recently.

The evening gave students the opportunity to take a break from their study, to network with peers, campus staff and the local community, and to enjoy a night of learning.

CQUniversity is again throwing its support behind the Zonta Club of Mackay's annual Birthing Kit Assembly Day initiative, which benefits women in developing countries.

The University has provided a $500 sponsorship towards the assembly of 800 kits which contain the basic requirements for a clean safe birth, including a sheet, soap, gloves, cords, scalpel and gauze squares contained in a press-seal bag.

CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman has welcomed a $3 million WA Government investment in the Geraldton Universities Centre (GUC) as "great news for regional tertiary education".

The University, which also has operations in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, delivers a number of its academic programs in partnership with GUC.

Tourism academics at the Noosa Campus of CQUniversity will be the first Australian research link with a new international initiative for healthy and productive oceans.

The Global Partnership for Oceans is a diverse coalition of public, private, civil society, research and multilateral interests addressing threats to the health, productivity and resilience of the world's oceans.

CQUniversity Bundaberg held a vibrant open day over the weekend. Our campuses at Mackay (Aug 19) and Rockhampton (Aug 26) are hoping to emulate that success over the next few Sundays.

Dozens of engineers recently converged on Rockhampton for CREC2012, this year's Central Region Engineering Conference, hosted and sponsored by CQUniversity.

Other sponsors for the event included professional services firms SMEC, AECOM and Cardno, as well as Ergon Energy, Engineers Australia and the Department of Main Roads.

The stevia plant is popular worldwide as a natural sweetener so, a few years ago, CQUniversity played a major role getting it approved for use as an ingredient in foods and beverages in Australia and New Zealand..

'Forging a pluralistic society and a community with shared values and interests' was the goal of a recent forum hosted by CQUniversity Gladstone, with national media personality Jeff McMullen contributing to the debate.

The 2012 Cultural Diversity Forum was presented by Welcoming Intercultural Neighbours (WIN) in association with other community organisations.

Agnes Water artist Marie Green has had great feedback since she's turned her passion for telescopic views of 'deep sky objects' into brush strokes on her canvas.

"The reason my 'Tarantula' artwork came into being is that I am an amateur astronomer with my own observatory and 8-inch Celestron scope.

Success in his role at Google has helped Beijing-based alumnus David Chen attract a nomination as one of four finalists for the Australia China Connections Magazine Australia China Alumni Award for ICT and New Media..