First-year Science student Hollis Brandt is keen to translate her academic, cultural and community achievements into momentum towards her desired career in renewable energy.

With help from a Vice-Chancellor's Academic Excellence Scholarship, Hollis has enrolled at Bundaberg Campus and intends to follow up her Bachelor of Science degree with study in the field of Engineering.

Some of Australia's leading carbon farming specialists have visited CQUniversity to hear of the latest relevant research in their field.

Carbon farming encompasses a range of processes enabling organic material to be locked into the soil, or even boosted, thus improving soil quality while reducing carbon leakage into the atmosphere.

CQUniversity and the Rotary Club of Rockhampton have signed up to ensure proceeds of the Rocky River Run will continue to help prevent anxiety and depression, reducing suicide risk in young people..

Kristy Botting may have attended school on the Sunshine Coast but travelling with her father to inland Indigenous communities has helped shape her career aspirations.

Now in her first year of tertiary study at CQUniversity Rockhampton, Kristy has enrolled in Physiotherapy and initially planned to make this a stepping stone to a medical degree.

Merilyn Luck is a quiet achiever who has devoted the better part of a lifetime to ways of improving her local community.  She has made an outstanding contribution through her active involvement and support of the arts, the Anglican Church and CQUniversity over a period spanning more than 40 years.

After growing up in Austria, Margit Nezold developed a career in veterinary science and travelled the world treating animals.

Nowadays she has Australian residency and family ties in Queensland but ongoing back problems led to a decision to change careers.

Rice has been a controversial crop in Australia, as most farms rely on flooded fields which use large water allocations and produce climate-changing methane gases. However, proponents of flooded rice fields could face a dry argument if CQUniversity researcher Dr Surya Bhattarai has his way.

CQUniversity's Bachelor of Musical Theatre students will begin rehearsals for their first major production for 2013 when they welcome Australian actor and director Jason Langley at the start of April.

Jason will arrive in Mackay to begin working with students on the production Brigadoon.