Gladstone accountant Chris Dicker not only caught the travel bug during his 10-month study trip to Japan but also may have taken his career on a new tangent.

Chris has just returned home from Urayasu City, Chiba, in Japan where he took courses in the Japanese language and assisted teachers with English classes at the Meikai University.

Maria Jones, Krystal Dullahide and Lionel Baars have taken very different paths and are at different stages of their lives. Their journeys converged recently at a celebration to mark the completion of their Tertiary Entry Program (TEP), providing a bridge into degree-level studies at CQUniversity.

CQUniversity has appointed Alastair Dawson as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (University Services) and he's scheduled to start in May..

If plants had mug-shots, hymenachne would feature on wanted posters throughout the nation. It could be considered as the cane toad of the plant world.

Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Taylor AO and long-serving academic Dave Cardnell have jointly donated a painting as a way of saying 'thank you' to the CQUniversity community and also as a way of being remembered.

The artwork Garrison was painted by Dave's brother Keith Cardnell, a professional artist working and living in Kent, England.

Skye Jeffrey grew up as a white girl playing in the schoolyard with many Aboriginal friends, as her home town of Wondai has a large Indigenous population and is beside the Cherbourg community.

When the Aboriginal elders came to the school to teach kids about cooking possums and emus, or traditional painting, boomerangs and culture, Skye was keen to join in and learn.

For a jazz student, there might be no better place for a study trip than Kentucky in the US.

That's according to CQUniversity Bachelor of Jazz Studies student (from Mackay) Luke McIntosh who has just returned home to Central Queensland after spending 4 months at the University of Louisville, thanks to a CQUniversity study exchange program.

The term 'engagement' means different things to different people. For Pierre Viljoen, it's all about making sense of the complex web of interactions between universities and communities.

After spending half his childhood in an orphanage, it's no surprise Lionel Baars had a few "psychological barriers" against achieving in society.

Nowadays, thanks to encouragement from his wife and success in a CQUniversity bridging program, he's "going forward in leaps and bounds".