Vice-Chancellor Professor Rickard is encouraging staff or student teams to enter the Relay for Life event to be held at CQU Rockhampton on the weekend of May 14-15.

CQU is a gold sponsor of this worthwhile event, which raises money for the Queensland Cancer Fund.

Postgraduate students and researchers in the field of physical and biological sciences are invited to a free training day for the recently installed scanning electron microscope (SEM) in Gladstone.

The training day will be held on March 17 at the Process Engineering and Light Metals (PELM) Centre at CQU Gladstone.

Aussie meat pies, lamingtons, scones, damper and Bundaberg Ginger Beer ..

Attending Central Queensland University is fast becoming a family tradition for one Rockhampton family who have four members involved in Orientation Week, study preparations and graduation activities this month.

For the Waltham family, this February marks two very special events.

If you’d like to be part of Rockhampton’s Relay for Life but have not got time to create your own team, then why not join an existing team?.

Just call the Queensland Cancer Fund on 1300 65 65 85 and they will register you with one of the teams already organised.

Queensland expatriate Professor Douglas Rutledge will spend three months starting in June at Central Queensland University working with the Plant Sciences Group in Rockhampton.

CQU's School of Biological and Environmental Science Associate Professor Kerry Walsh secured the placement through Queensland's Smart Returns Fellowships Scheme which is funded by the State Government.

CQU Rockhampton Workplace Health & Safety Officers gathered for a two-day workshop last week.

Local fire brigade officers attended one of the sessions and participants got a chance to learn about fire extinguishers.

CQU's Anita Medhekar has developed the companion website (web-based supplementary materials) for a leading textbook in economics by Pearson Education called 'Principles of Economics' by Professor John Sloman and Professor Keith Norris.

Ms Medhekar has developed the website for the Macro Economics section of the textbook, which involved producing web-based supplementary interactive materials.

After 25 years' experience in dance and theatre, new lecturer Deborah Mills has arrived at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music at CQU Mackay.

Ms Mills will teach Music Theatre students in the areas of dance, acting, production and studies in form.

Around 70 community members gathered to view 'The Rage in Placid Lake' during the first CQU Mackay Library Society Film night for 2005.

'The Rage in Placid Lake' is about a teenage boy struggling to deal with his childhood taunts and being bullied as a result of his mother sending him to school wearing a dress.