All interested people are welcome at the opening of the third 'Dean Invites'  art exhibition for 2011, at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music on CQUniversity Mackay Campus, from 5.30pm on Friday October 14.

Mackay Campus will be a focal point for discussion of the new National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children..

CQUniversity has broken ground on its public-access Allied Health clinic, which will help plug a gap in services for the Rockhampton community.

Construction on the facility begins this week and Acting Vice-Chancellor Prof Jennelle Kyd has conducted an official ‘sod-turning' with help from Executive Dean Professor Graham Pegg.

Rockhampton region residents are encouraged to join hundreds of people expected to attend the Indian Association of Central Queensland's Diwali Milan (Coming Together on Diwali) event.

Sponsored by CQUniversity and held at the Community Sports Centre on Rockhampton Campus, this 'Festival of Lights, Colours, Sound and Food' will be held from 3pm to 9pm on Sunday, October 16.

CQUniversity's Dr Erlenawati Sawir is one of three editors who have drawn together authors from a dozen different countries to produce a book on Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Strategic Responses to Globalization.

Working alongside other leading industry specialists, Simon Marginson and Sarjit Kaur, Dr Sawir has helped to provide an authoritative survey of tertiary education in this diverse and dynamic region.

The herbicide Diuron may have been wrongly convicted as the culprit in mangrove dieback, according to scientists who have done a systematic review of evidence.

Dr John Abbot and Dr Jennifer Marohasy from CQUniversity say that evidence from field studies suggests the burial of mangrove breathing roots is a more likely causal factor in dieback.

Local and regional communities in resource areas of Australia would be better placed to attract new workforce if government strategies take into account the reality of Fly In Fly Out (FIFO) and Drive In Drive Out (DIDO) patterns.

That's according to CQUniversity's Professor John Rolfe who has made a submission to the House of Representatives inquiry on FIFO, with help from colleagues Lindsay Greer and Dr Delwar Akbar.

CQUniversity academics Associate Professor Peter Reaburn and Dr Susan Kinnear will be part of Rockhampton's first 'Buzzz' event, which features community members giving short, punchy presentations on a theme.

The theme of the first Buzzz is '‘Inspiration (who or what inspires me?)' and everyone is welcome to attend, from 4pm-6pm on Tuesday, November 8, at North Rockhampton High School's Performing Arts Centre.

CQUniversity research officer Marcus Ellison has gained Statewide recognition for his almost compulsive habit of volunteering.

His efforts on behalf of the Yaralla Football Club in Gladstone have earned him the title of 'Queensland Young Volunteer of the Year for Sport and Recreation', in an awards ceremony organised by the Office for Volunteering within the Queensland Department of Communities.

CQUniversity Tourism senior lecturer Steve Noakes has been appointed to the Board of Mackay Tourism, during the organisation's recent annual general meeting.

He'll be serving alongside CQUniversity Council member and REDC* chief executive officer Narelle Pearse, who became audit committee chairwoman for the board.