More than 40 people attended the annual CQUniversity Academic Awards ceremony held at the Emerald Meteor Motel recently (July 25).

The Academic Awards acknowledge the outstanding achievements of CQUniversity students, as well as thanking the local business award sponsors.

If you enjoyed the performances of Chicago in 2007 your hearts will skip a beat when CQUniversity's Bachelor of Performing Arts students present their foot-tapping, all-singing and all-dancing production of the Tony Award-winning musical Sweet Charity at Rockhampton's Pilbeam Theatre in October.

Professional industry mentors Wayne Scott Kermond and Katie Kermond once again join with the student company to stage this popular story of dance hall hostess, eternal optimist, and unlucky romantic, Charity Hope Valentine (played by Jenna Saini), as she searches for true love.

Melbourne was recently among campuses launching the University's fresh face, introducing the new brand to on-shore education agents and staff with an evening of cocktails at Rydges Melbourne.

The event was organised to formally introduce the University's new logo.

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First  Prize -   $450  JOHN  MILLETT  "A Boy in the Torn Darkness"          (Southport, Qld) ..

The Bauhinia Literary Awards for 2008 were announced during a gathering of artists and writers at Emu Park's The Gallery, on Sunday July 27..

The good intention of administrators will not in itself be enough to ensure the development of sports in China after the Olympic Games.

That is according to event legacy researcher Danya Hodgetts from CQUniversity Australia, who said a conscious, sustained effort is required for sports to develop as result of an event.

Indian students from Australian capital city campuses are the mainstay of a unique cricket challenge event to be held in the nation's ‘Beef Capital' - Rockhampton.

They have been the most keen to be involved in the CQUniversity Chancellor's Challenge Cup Cricket Tournament, due to be held on the weekend of August 16-17.