Representatives from the industry, business, government and education sectors shared views on workforce needs this week during the Inaugural CQUniversity Dual Sector Research Symposium and associated workshop, held on Rockhampton Campus.

The event focused on anticipated workforce shortages and key growth areas, and on understanding the role and contribution CQUniversity can make to regional communities as it starts its journey as a 'dual-sector' institution, providing vocational education and training courses as well as degrees.

CQUniversity's Professor Bronwyn Fredericks was recently invited to participate in the inaugural meeting of the National Steering Group working towards an Alliance in Indigenous Women's Health.

Professor Fredericks attended in her capacity as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and BMA Chair in Indigenous Engagement.

CQUniversity student Victoria Hammer recently completed a final-year project that she could really get her teeth into, by helping to evaluate the fattening and shell-hardening of wild-caught mudcrabs under aquaculture conditions.

In a project believed to be the first of its type in Australia, a Gold Coast fisherman in the Moreton Bay area is utilising an aquaculture tank for the crab fattening project.

The CQUniversity Mackay Library Society and Film and Arts Mackay (FAM) will thank their volunteers for hard work and fundraising efforts throughout 2012, with a special function on Wednesday, November 7 from 5.30pm to 6.

CQUniversity is offering support to secondary school students who may be experiencing difficulty in transitioning into employment or training with a host of career and study options at the upcoming Youth Pathways Expo on Tuesday, November 13.

The expo is aimed at students from Years 9 to 12 who may have disengaged from school, are experiencing learning difficulties or have a disability.

A new study will check the extent to which cumulative sleep loss across a school term affects depression and anxiety in adolescent males.

CQUniversity researcher Dr Sarah Blunden has secured a Beyond Blue* grant, one of only five funded across Australia, to carry out the study.

CQUniversity is one of only three universities listed in a Top 10 of organisations that have been influential in the regional development space.

The Regional Australia Institute report ranks CQUniversity, the University of Adelaide and the University of Technology Sydney as the only universities alongside esteemed organisations in the Top 10 including the CSIRO, OECD and Australian Bureau of Statistics.

CQUniversity's Professor Lee Di Milia has been elected as a Queensland representative on the board of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), the peak management body for education and research.

Professor Di Milia hosted the organisation's national conference in Yeppoon in 2006 and has been an ANZAM research fellow since 2010.

Academics should take the time to recognise, reflect, respond and rejuvenate.

That's according to Dale Trott, the coordinator for CQUniversity's annual career development program, ACADEME.

Eulogy presented at the funeral of Helene Jones OAM (October 30, 2012) by Alan Demack..