CQU Marketing lecturers Jim Callan and Meredith Parrish ran a session encouraging high school students to engage in team work and gain a basic understanding of marketing as part of the CQU Connections program recently.

The students were given an unlimited budget to promote their school formal and to secure their favourite band to perform.

CQU lecturers Daryl Alcock, Jillian Litster, Kylie Radel and Robyn Alcock engaged high school students in a simulated board meeting, reviewing a tourism business proposal as part of the CQU Connections program.

The interactive activity illustrated how business disciplines such as marketing, accounting, HRM, management, tourism and information systems are integrated within an organisation.

Alternative power sources were high on the agenda in the big white tent pitched at this year's Graduating Engineers Conference, GECon 2006, on Friday June 23 in Rockhampton.

Among the innovative projects on show by this year's graduating class were Adrian Murphy's feasibility study on a refrigerator run on solar power and John Brown's analysis of a coal seam methane power generator.

CQU 3D modelling and animation lecturer Qing Huang has recorded yet another win in an international digital art competition, thanks to his unique multimedia piece entitled 'The Way'.

The latest win was the gold award in the open category at Comgraph2006, the 7th Asia Pacific Digital Art and Animation Competition held in Singapore last week (June 20-23).

CQU's international campus partner C Management Services has been identified as an employer of choice by PLUS40, the new national employment, education and advocacy organisation.

PLUS40 promotes the active employment and career development of the over-40 age group to all levels of industry throughout Australia.

The Sri Lankan Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha and his wife recently visited CQU Sydney International Campus.

The VIPs were on a stop-over on the way to Melbourne after attending an educational conference in Brisbane.

The Alliance Frangaise of Central Queensland will be offering French lessons in July at the CQU Language Centre (buildings 12 and 13) in Rockhampton.

Weekly lessons will be held every Wednesday for the duration of the school term (11 weeks) from 6.

CQU Brisbane International Campus lecturer, Donna Wright, will be presenting a paper relating to her PhD research on intercultural communication, at the 4th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, being held in Tunisia in July.

Ms Wright’s research is titled, 'Big Blue Ball: Pictures, people, place – An intercultural playground for creative conversations'.

Library and Information Week celebrations were held at the Brisbane International Campus recently.

Students and staff were keen competitors in the 'Matching the Staff Photo' and 'How many books in the yellow bag' competitions, with two students taking out the final prize: MD Hamidul Hogue and Fan Lu.

Indian student Fatema Kapadia (pictured) has praised CQU and the Brisbane campus experience.

Ms Kapadia enrolled at CQU when she was still living in Bombay - initially because of its competitive study costs.