CQUniversity lecturer Sandrine Makiela has contributed to a Meals on Wheels Queensland training video providing tips on safe food delivery.

She is shown in the video doing laboratory tests on microbial levels in a chicken meal left at room temperature for an hour, compared with those in a refrigerated meal.

The 'Chefs R US' Relay for Life team has successfully launched their morning tea recipe book - at where else but a morning tea!

A total of $235 was raised at recent Friday morning event, with many of the CQUniversity staff again cooking up a storm and showcasing their fine creations for all to enjoy. The team is proudly supported by the University Services Division and copies of the $15 book were selling like hotcakes.

Seventeen Year 10 students from Mackay State High School recently experienced a rehearsal of the new Mighty Foods musical and a demonstration of new medical imaging equipment, including the ultrasound scan of an unborn baby.

Both activities featured during their recent two-day visit to CQUniversity Mackay.

CQUniversity has been hosting visiting academics who specialise in using the latest online interactive technology to ensure patient preferences are incorporated during decision making by health workers..

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's busy visit to CQUniversity Mackay this week included the official opening of the new $4 million Medical and Applied Sciences Laboratories..

As a postgraduate student in Adelaide, Venelin Stamatov helped with extensive tests required for the fuel-delivering systems of the torch and cauldron used for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Now a lecturer, Dr Stamatov is specialising in the physics of combustion and explosion, laser flow visualisation, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, alternative liquid transport fuels, environmental protection and sustainability of the Australian economy.

CQUniversity Noosa is set to have its first full-time dedicated Head of Campus, with the appointment of Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean Professor Kevin Tickle designed to drive growth at the facility, currently located in Goodchap Street in Noosaville.

Professor Tickle, presently based at Rockhampton, will continue to lead the Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Education (FABIE) and will be taking an increasingly hands-on role at Noosa during a period of transition, before moving full-time to the campus at the start of 2012.

Researchers suggest we could find common ground on complex global issues such as financial systems and climate change, through a mathematical principle that everyone can trust - prime integer relations.

They say integers can be trusted because they provide an irreducible foundation as the ‘ultimate building blocks' for relationships realised through the prime integer relations.

CQUniversity Engineering students were recently invited to visit QR National, to learn about career and scholarship opportunities.

A presentation covering the range of careers and projects available at QR National was followed by a morning tea and tour of the facilities.