CQU has the second-largest cohort of international full-degree students studying in Australia.

Figures are not yet available to indicate which institution is leading in this category.

CQU now sponsors the Western Cavalier Sports and Recreation Club annual basketball competition played at the Rooty Hill Leisure Centre – in the western suburb of Rooty Hill in Sydney.

The club is an integral part of the Filipino community in the Rooty Hill area.

An interactive three-dimensional display was launched at Central Queensland University Gladstone campus by the Gladstone Centre for Clean Coal (GC3).

The display tells the story of coal from its early beginnings to the integral part it plays in the local economy today.

Visiting American student Kristin Stillman has learnt that gaffer tape is useful to avoid bites and scratches when holding possums and gliders.

The AustraLearn intern has helped with trapping and radio-collar tracking of possums and gliders as part of her first field trip with Central Queensland University's Centre for Environmental Management.

CQU has launched a new Reconciliation in the Workplace and Community course, to be delivered jointly by Nulloo Yumbah (the Indigenous Learning, Spirituality & Research Centre) and staff from Social Work and Welfare Studies.

The new course will be open to students enrolled in any program of study at CQU (including distance education) and will be mandatory for Social Work students.

Against stiff competition from all around Australia, Central Queensland University Press has won two publishing grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

The first grant is for $4000 to assist with publishing of a national anthology of short stories, Travellers’ Tales, edited by Michael Wilding and David Myers.

Two Indonesians and a Mexican have arrived at CQU Rockhampton under the 2005-2006 Peace Scholarship Program.

They are staying at the Capricornia College on campus.

More than 30 members of the seven Toastmasters Clubs in the Mackay and Whitsundays attended a training day at CQU Mackay.

The training day was organised by Rodney Pratt, who is one of the Northern Division's Toastmasters Leadership Institute Co-ordinators.

One of our first teaching graduates, Lee Currie attended the Faculty of Education & Creative Arts' special 30th anniversary prizegiving ceremony last Friday (July 1).

About 50 award recipients, guests and Faculty members attended the event.

A keen research field team departed Rosslyn Bay on Saturday, June 25, for Miall Island just north of Great Keppel Island.

Their purpose: to weigh 43 colonies of coral already placed on growth racks in the field in March and to sample a further 100 colonies for later biochemical analysis.