Premier Anna Bligh used this week's visit to CQUniversity Mackay to announce that FK Gardner & Sons have been awarded the contract for Stage 1 of the $41 million project to build a new TAFE Trade Training Centre co-located at the campus..

CQUniversity held its first ever Conference for Professional Support Staff recently on the Rockhampton Campus.

The full day program was about bringing staff together from around the region to meet each other, enhance their knowledge about the University and to demonstrate the value of professional support staff at CQUniversity.

CQUniversity researchers Professor John Rolfe and Dr Nicole Flint recently ran a planning workshop on environmental issues for the Rockhampton Regional Council, under the theme of 'Keeping it Green and Clean'.

The 'Be Heard' series workshop covered identification and prioritisation of issues and identification of policy and planning mechanisms to address priority issues.

CQUniversity's pioneering cohort of Medical Imaging students in Mackay can not irradiate human patients for CT practice scanning but they have the absolute next best thing - a 'phantom' patient worth around $95,000.

The Kyoto phantom is a simulated human torso with synthetic anatomical features and life-like radiation absorption, which acts as a substitute for human patients during learning.

Royal wedding guests, fairy tale characters, vampires, witches and super heroes ..

Career advisers often suggest that when you are seeking a new job you not only have to act the part but also look the part.

And that's one thing that CQUniversity's aviation students now have under control.

Thousands of young children, along with their families and teachers, joined in the festivities for this year's Romp in the Park at Rockhampton Botanic Gardens.

Those involved included Bachelor of Learning Management (Early Childhood) final-year students in the organisational team with lecturer Gillian Busch and Bachelor of Learning Management (Primary) students involved in The Arts course which is offered to first-year first-term students within this program.

Minister for Regional Australia and Regional Development Simon Crean has thrown his support behind the bid to create a dual sector institution through amalgamation of CQUniversity and CQ Institute of TAFE..

CQUniversity Early Childhood student Jessica Esmond has been awarded the QCWA (Queensland Country Women's Association) Central Highlands Division Annual Bursary.

Each year, the bursary is awarded to a full-time university student studying and living in the Central Highlands.