CQUni helps launch 'Innovation Central' concept
Published on 08 December, 2011

CQUniversity has joined with Capricorn Enterprise and CQ Innovative Regions to launch a concept for an 'Innovation Central' process and campus location.

The concept launch happened during a Rockhampton business breakfast this week.

CQUniversity's Medical Imaging students had their first opportunity to get involved with their profession from a global perspective, with an invitation to travel and work with academic Cynthia Cowling on a week-long workshop in Uganda.

Katrina Ryan, a first-year student, leapt at the chance and spent an amazing 10 days in a learning situation very different from Mackay.

CQUniversity Human Movements Science graduate Cameron Jennings has won Cycling Queensland's Coach of the Year Award.

He coaches between 10 to 15 cyclists throughout Queensland depending on the time of the year, including Alex O'Dea, winner of the Capricornia Cup women's event at last weekend's CQUniversity Rockhampton Cup on Wheels event at the Kenrick Tucker Velodrome.

Rockhampton's Josh Edwards has been crowned as winner of the 2011 CQUniversity Rockhampton Cup on Wheels event held recently at the Kenrick Tucker Velodrome in Rockhampton.

Edwards, competing in his ninth Cup on Wheels, was able to take advantage of a 170m handicap and overcame strong winds to upset some of the carnival's top ranked competitors from across Australia and New Zealand.

Initial research is indicating that women who receive therapy to manage their anxiety during pregnancy are much less likely to be anxious or have post-natal depression after birth, which also reduces anxiety and relationship pressures in the wider family environment.

One in seven new mothers are affected by postnatal depression and as many as one in five experience anxiety or depression during pregnancy.

CQUniversity's senior lecturer in HRM Dr Roslyn Cameron has reached a career milestone as Editor for the new International Journal of Mixed Methods in Applied Business and Policy Research.

The open access journal is based at CQUniversity and accepts submissions from a range of business, management and policy disciplines.

Congratulations to the Scottvale Park Squash Relay for Life team members, who are planning to attend the fundraising event in Rockhampton for their 10th consecutive year in May of 2012.

Team member Kaye Kidd has been along every step of the way and now has extra incentive, as her husband Trevor was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) in February 2011.

CQUniversity Centre for Plant and Water Science staff Kylie Hopkins and Graham Fox have installed an aquaponic system at Glenmore State High School with the help of a year 9 science class.

Aquaponics combines aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil) in one system to produce fresh fish and vegetables.

CQUniversity Rockhampton this week welcomed Susanne Knudsen, who noted Australian teachers tend to dip into many sources, rather than relying on a particular textbook for their class like their Scandanavian counterparts.

Dr Knudsen is a Danish researcher who works in Norway as a Professor of Pedagogic Text and who is the current president of the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media.