She comes from Zimbabwe, speaks with a soft English accent, is extremely conscientious and sets very high standards for herself. Behind the composed exterior, however, is a young woman with a great sense of humour who has gone from strength to strength as she pursues her professional goals in life.

Federal Climate Change Minister, Senator Penny Wong was special guest speaker at the Central Queensland Carbon Forum, held in CQUniversity's Rex Metcalfe Lecture Theatre, Gladstone campus on Thursday.

Also attending were representatives of mining companies, processors, associated industry groups,  the Australian Coal Association, Local and State government,  community conservation and environment bodies.

A security officer doing his rounds at CQUniversity on Tuesday came face to face with a deadly foe.

A snake, later identified as an Eastern Brown had made its way into a toilet block on campus.

Following on from the recent successful public lecture by John Rolfe at Melbourne Campus and as part of a program of activity to raise the public profile of the Campus, academics at Melbourne have held an initial series of lunchtime lectures highlighting recent published research.   The series ran over four weeks.

CQUniversity Melbourne, each term recognises students with the top mark in the previous term. An analysis of university's results of Term 1 2009 courses revealed that twenty students from Melbourne scored the top mark in the university with about 50 other students who secured either the second or the third top mark.

Staff and students from CQUniversity Melbourne joined together to gain an insight into Nepalese culture on 24 Aug 09. Eight Nepalese students from Cambridge shared their experiences in Nepal and as Nepalese in Melbourne.

It was the proposal to install yellow flashing lights on the rear of trains in Central Queensland, which started a young man on the path to his own business.

Harry Sturgess was employed by the Queensland Railway Department in the mid-70s, and got to ride the tailend of trains as a guard.

A couple of CQUniversity performing arts students are putting to rest  preconceptions of young people as hope-less, with limited view of a future.

With fellow students, Lincoln Tapsell and Justin Sharrock round out their studies for a Bachelor of Performing Arts degree.

The General Assembly of the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) has re- elected Dr. Mike Horsley, from the School of Learning and Innovation at Noosa, as its Vice President for the next two years.