Banana State School teacher aide and CQU multimedia student Julie Hanack has won a district award in the Commonwealth Bank Showcase Awards for Excellence in Leadership.

Ms Hanack gained the award after being seconded to the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) and offering workshops to school staff and community members in the Callide and Dawson district.

Funding has been granted for research seeking the best care options for patients with leukaemia and other blood disorders and their families.

The project is the culmination of a decade of work by Dr Pam McGrath documenting the psycho-social aspects of haematological treatments.

CQU International was recently awarded full ISO 9001:2000 certification, following the successful implementation and audit of its Quality Management System.

The auditor noted that the staff possessed the 'unusual attribute of understanding the big picture', while being able to 'focus on the fine details of implementation'.

Facilities Management has organised a garden naming ceremony in memory of former groundsperson Vic Sinclair (1979 - 2000).

Vic was a very happy, helpful, unassuming person with a great sense of humour who left a lasting impression on many CQU staff.

CQU has become an equal member in a consortium known as the International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management.

Professor Bob Miles, Executive Director of CQU\'s Institute for Sustainable Regional Development, said CQU was the only northern Australia entity in the consortium, giving it a window of opportunity to handle the dry tropical water dimension.

Millions of dollars allocated to this Sunday’s (June 6) launch of the federal government’s National Elimination of Violence Against Women Campaign would have been better directed to programs with long term vision, aimed at prevention of the attitudes leading to violence.

That is according to the Queensland Centre for Domestic & Family Violence Research (QCDFVR), in response to news that $13.

CQU\'s Centre for Indigenous Learning, Spirituality and Research, Nulloo Yumbah is today hosting a barbecue and gathering in its new space on Bundaberg campus to mark the end of term.

CQU Bundaberg Nulloo Yumbah coordinator Vicki Pascoe is passionate about education, believing it is the vital key to the empowerment of Indigenous Australians.

PhD student Eridani Mulder will be travelling from her home in Rockhampton to the Northern Territory in August as part of her research into endoparasites of water pythons and dusky rats on a monsoonal floodplain of the Northern Territory.

Eridani's interest in Australian reptiles, ecology and parasitology inspired her to commence a PhD in field-based biology in March 2003.

On Friday evening, June 4, members of the public are invited to a fusion of dance and music event called ‘Collisions’.

This event includes items choreographed by CQU Bachelor of Performing Arts students.

Masters of Applied Science Marine Biology and Entomology student Sabrina Hall will present a poster detailing her research for the first time at the 22nd International Congress of Entomology Conference, due to be held in Brisbane between August 15 and 21.

Sabrina's poster will focus on the fly species responsible for infestations of marine turtle nests and the effects their larvae are having on turtle nest productivity.