Senior academics, research supervisors and advanced students helped make our commencing research higher degree (RHD) students feel welcome, during their Orientation and Confirmation Week program this week.

Coinciding with our Research Showcase, the RHD Week gave supervisors the chance to support commencing students while also engaging in their own professional development.

Participants enjoyed a free presentation about 'learning through play' at CQUniversity Bundaberg Campus this week.

The event was hosted by academic Dr Rosie Thrupp and Early Childhood students and a ‘professional development' certificate of attendance was provided for students and professional educators.

Poets, writers and artists were showcased alongside leading researchers this week (Monday), as CQUniversity hosted a 'Creativity and Research Forum'.

About 80 people attended the event which featured academic researchers, research higher degree students and community members presenting on 'creative product and how this relates to research into creativity'.

Newly-arrived Mackay academic Professor Mark Looi is presenting during CQUniversity's Showcase entitled 'Research and Development for Your Community'. His talk on 'Security and privacy issues with social networking sites' should resonate with most people, as millions around the world join popular sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Following on from the launch of the Leading to Greatness Program earlier this year, CQUniversity managers and leadership team members have gathered for workshops to further enhance their overall leadership and management capabilities..

Around 90 CQUniversity academics have signed up as 'teaching scholars' in recognition of the focus of their careers on teaching and learning, and to enable an increased focus on scholarship of learning and teaching instead of discipline-based research.

Teaching scholars wish to focus more on the quality of student learning, providing them with the opportunity to advance the field of learning and teaching and the recognition of their achievements through a career path that does not require a demonstrated focus on research and publication in research discipline journals.

Residents from CQUniversity's Capricornia College have made another visit to the children's ward at Rockhampton Base Hospital, to show their care, compassion and concern for the community.

Residential assistant Tara Griffin says "residential assistants Danni, Aimee, myself, our bus driver James and residential members Phil, Phillipa, Izzy and Janine bounced into the ward ready to be a blessing to the sick and unwell in our community".

Students from around the world have been warming to the science of water in recent times, but this year it's red hot.

Water quality and sustainability are global issues that affect industries, governments and whole nations, and now a stream of students have decided to get ‘water wise' and tap into the bank of knowledge available through a unique Australian program.

CQUniversity Noosa's reputation as a burgeoning research hub has been enhanced with a new world-class eye tracking facility.

The $70,000 facility was developed at CQUniversity Noosa's Learning & Teaching Education Research Centre (LTERC) by Associate Professors Mike Horsley and Lorna Moxham, and is one of only four worldwide to use cutting-edge technology to detect, record and analyse how learners regulate their own learning in e-learning.

American folk hero Johnny Appleseed helped settlers plant successful orchards in the 18th Century and now CQUniversity's Professor David Midmore and Dr Surya Bhattarai are helping the world's small-scale vegetable producers introduce low-cost drip irrigation to ensure viable crops.

Whereas Johnny Appleseed (real name John Chapman) travelled the length and breadth of the land to talk to settlers, David and Surya's influence is via their project leadership of a 'More Crop Per Drop' booklet able to be distributed on the world wide web.