Talented student Janine Bennet has taken out the top honour of best film at a showcase of Central Queensland University (CQU) Mackay Digital movie making students’ work held last Friday night at CQU Mackay Cook lecture theatre.

The compilation of films resembled a short film festival and was enjoyed by an audience of family, friends, colleagues and lecturers at CQU Mackay.

The Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research Centre (The Centre) has been honoured in the first Minister for Communities Award for Excellence in workforce developments at a presentation dinner on Tuesday night in Brisbane.

The Centre was 1 of 5 finalists in the Culturally Inclusive Practice Category and won the award for the Regional Nomination Area in this category.

A community facilitator’s workshop was held on Wednesday, November 15, as part of CQU’s Nurturing Migrants Project.

The purpose of the workshop was to provide feedback on the project’s progress and continue to develop a community plan to strengthen support for new and old migrants within the community.

When Emerald Brophy realized that the date of her Australian graduation was set to clash with her new job in Cracow, she chose the obvious alternative. She would graduate in Fiji instead.

You may have heard about 'Movember', a charity raising money for the men's health issues of depression and cancer.

The Channel 9 morning crew is heavily into promoting it.

Central Queensland University graduates are still ahead of national rates for getting jobs and securing salaries, according to figures being released by Graduate Careers Australia this week.

That is according to the GCA's 'Grads, Jobs and Dollars, 2005' report.

Recent CQU graduate Jacqueline Taylor and second-year student Stephi Duthie have each started a 2-week internship at ABC Radio Capricornia in Rockhampton.

Ms Taylor is in the News and Current Affairs department and Ms Duthie is in the Programs department.

Wading through mud to collect flying fox guano may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but American university students, Julie Byrd and Christiana Swanson have travelled halfway around the world to do just that.

Julie and Christiana are in Gladstone completing a 10-week internship at Central Queensland University’s Centre for Environmental Management and have been collecting flying fox guano as part of their research project.

Throughout the year, the TECC unit has been involved with numerous success stories involving career development and coaching of students at CQU Sydney International Campus.

Recently TECC observed a few more successes from the Undergraduate campus.

French students Ophelie Beets and Charlotte Baudry have been sampling wildlife on a 3-month visit hosted by CQU's Centre for Environmental Management.

The pair, who are at the French equivalent of Master's level, are completing a research internship for their programs at ENSAR, l'Ecole Nationale Supirieure Agronomique de Rennes (the National Higher Agronomic School at Rennes).