A gala dance performance by Brisbane's Raw Dance Company was a special attraction during CQUniversity Emerald's annual Academic Awards Ceremony, at the Town Hall on Saturday (July 4)..

CQUniversity Nursing academics Associate Professor Lorna Moxham, Dr Trudy Dwyer* and Dr Kerry Reid-Searl have contributed as unit coordinating authors for the first Australian edition of a textbook called 'Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing'.

Published by Pearson Australia, the book includes illustrations photographed at Rockhampton Campus.

'Secrets' by Rockhampton band The Short Fall has been unanimously selected as the winner of the ROCKon song awards from a total of 62 songs.

The Short Fall will perform at the Pilbeam Theatre this Friday night as a support act to the acclaimed band GANGgajang renowned for their song 'Sounds of Then (this is Australia)'.

CQUniversity Bundaberg recently welcomed a crowd of around 120 people to celebrate students receiving Awards and Prizes and to farewell the Vice-Chancellor.

Community leaders joined staff, students, family members and well-wishers for the occasion.

Cherie Purnell-Webb - CQUniversity, School of Education & Innovation; Rotary Club of Bundaberg.

Hong Lee - Bundaberg Regional Council, for an emerging researcher (information technology).

Congratulations to Malcolm Leinster, who teaches into our postgraduate programs based at CQUniversity Gladstone Campus. He has received a special award in recognition of his service to the engineering community.

CQUniversity's sponsorship and involvement in the recent Wide Bay Australia International Airshow  has sparked interest in a wide range of degrees.

Aviation Technology senior lecturer Ron Bishop said there was plenty of interest in the Aviation, Nursing, Education, Business, Social Work and Psychology degrees during the event.

CQUniversity MBA student Hiep Henry Huynh has partnered with an RMIT business graduate to set up a successful online business, catering to the needs of more than 40,000 international students in Melbourne.

GoingHomeSale was founded in April 2003 and is currently managed by the 2 Vietnamese entrepreneurs who studied together at RMIT.

AWARDS PRESENTED TO STUDENTS IN THE

Faculty of Arts, Business Informatics & Education who are enrolled at the Emerald Campus

 Awards presented by Mr Stephen Millan  - Deputy Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Program Coordinator (BLM-Prim/EC) Lecturer, School of Learning and Innovation )

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•  Sponsor: McDonnell Hume Partners Prize              

Awarded to the undergraduate Faculty of Business and Informatics student enrolled at Emerald Campus who at the first attempt and in the same year, achieves the highest overall passing result in courses:

            ACCT 11059 Accounting for Decision Making and

           ACCT 11057 Principles of Accounting

             Recipient: Geraldine Coughlan

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• Sponsor: BMA, Gregory/Crinum Mines

            Presented by Jitendra Sharma Commercial Manager BMA

Awarded to the undergraduate Faculty of Business and Informatics student enrolled at Emerald Campus who at the first attempt achieves the highest passing result in the course:

           ECON 11026 Principles of Economics

Recipient: Kirralee Stanton

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• Sponsor: Emerald Office National

Awarded to the undergraduate Faculty of Business and Informatics student enrolled at CQU Emerald Campus who at first attempt achieves the highest passing result in the course:

            MRKT 11029 Marketing

            Recipient: Stephanie Herring - Not present

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 Sponsor: Harvey World Travel, Emerald

Awarded to the Emerald Campus student achieving the highest GPA in the first year of Bachelor of Learning Management Accelerated Program

       Recipient: Darren Hooklyn - not present

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• Sponsor: Central Highlands Regional Council

Awarded to the Emerald Campus student achieving the highest GPA in the four Key Learning Areas in the first year of Bachelor of Learning Management Accelerated Program.

 Recipient: Darren Hooklyn - not present

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 Sponsor: School of Education & Innovation Staff

  Awarded to the graduating Emerald Campus student achieving the highest GPA in the Bachelor of Learning Management program.