CQUniversity Gladstone has hosted the recent Chinese New Year celebrations organised by the Chinese Community of the Gladstone Multicultural Association Inc.

The campus was the major sponsor of the event, which was also supported by Boulder Steel.

Two species of seagrasses appear to have become locally extinct in Gladstone Harbour and CQUniversity is keen to attract enough funding to expand its investigation of this loss of important habitat.

Gladstone-based researcher Professor Marnie Campbell says fish, turtles, crustaceans, dugongs, coastal dolphins and migratory shorebirds rely on seagrasses for food, shelter, and nursery habitat.

CQUniversity has won a tender to boost mental health education through an improved network of clinical placements and embedding of a new 'recovery' approach among clinical facilitators.

The Queensland Health-funded project will enable innovation in mental health services to prosper throughout the State.

Rebecca Dean says her 30th birthday was a turning point which set her on the path towards higher education, thanks to CQUniversity's renowned STEPS preparatory program.

Now her study journey has been further supported thanks to winning the Zonta Club of Rockhampton 2012 STEPS Award, which included a $500 book voucher.

CQUniversity Sydney graduate Shakir Karim is proud to have received more career recognition from his employer SAI Global.

After five years at the company, Shakir has been recognised for his 'valued' work as a member of the NSW Professional Services team, where his daily responsibilities include court filing, stamping and registration work.

A recent Wednesday (Feb 13) marked the fifth anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were removed from their families and communities under past government policies.

Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, CQUniversity's Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and BMA Chair in Indigenous Engagement was invited to a special 5^th anniversary event held by Link Up Queensland to commemorate the Apology.

CQUniversity's Professor Bronwyn Fredericks was recently invited to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra for a Research Advisory Committee meeting.

She attended in her role as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and BMA Chair in Indigenous Engagement.

After researching tourism in Antarctica for over two decades and visiting the continent 20 times to observe tourism operations, Dr Thomas Bauer, Adjunct Professor in Sustainable Tourism at CQUniversity, says many destinations could learn from the tourism management systems that have been developed for this pristine environment. 

"Other destinations should take note of how well tourism in the south Polar region is managed and adopt the same stringent visitor conditions that apply to Antarctica to the management of their own destinations.

Men are more likely to cut loose and gamble if they lack control at work.

That's according to a team based at CQUniversity's Experimental Gambling Laboratory.

It's been more than 35 years since Alan Tucker attended high school but, in the space of 12 months, the CQUniversity Cairns student is already heading towards a Business degree.

Having just completed the Skills for Tertiary Education Preparatory Studies (STEPS) by distance education, Alan will undertake a Diploma of Business this year.