Framed prints of CQU's Reconciliation Statement are being delivered to campuses at Brisbane (Nov 2), the Gold Coast (Nov 2), Melbourne (Nov 8) and Sydney (Nov 9).

In each case, the Statement is being acknowledged in a ceremony involving representatives of Chancellery, Nulloo Yumbah (CQU's Indigenous Learning, Spirituality and Research Centre) and the particular campus.

CQU Mackay celebrated the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday with a chicken and champagne lunch and some interesting entertainment.

The inaugural “CQU Mackay Campus Stakes”, organised by Pauline McNee, Campus Library Manager, was the undoubted highlight of the lunchtime activities.

National researcher leader Dr Mandy Thomas will speak to fledgling CQU researchers during a Research Roundtable and Luncheon, from 12.30pm-1.

Central Queensland University will this weekend (Saturday, November 5, from 2pm, Hotel Intercontinental, 80 Middle Road) reach the milestone of its 10th graduation ceremony in Singapore.

The University’s strong partnership with Hartford Institute in Singapore currently offers six popular undergraduate and postgraduate programs to Singaporean and international students.

CQU will tomorrow (Thursday, Nov 3, from 7.30pm Grand Ballroom 1-2, 6/F Royal Plaza Hotel, 193 Prince Edward Road West, Mongkok, Kowloon) mark its 7th graduation ceremony in Hong Kong.

Central Queensland University Bundaberg will help combat the global shortage of information scientists and software engineers when it introduces a new IT program next year.

CQU Bundaberg has introduced the Bachelor of Information Technology (Bioinformatics) into its 2006 program offerings.

CQU’s Professor Alan Knight and PhD student Ali Abusalem, based in Melbourne, will share the CQU experience of teaching journalism online at one of the largest Middle Eastern journalism conferences this month.

The only Australian university to be accepted to present at the Conference, CQU will headline the Online Journalism in the Arab World: Realities and Challenges Conference at the University of Sharjah, on November 22 and 23.

Ms Maria Harris, an external business student, paid a visit to the Mackay campus recently to speak to students about the vast array of career opportunities for graduates in the resources sector.

Ms Harris, who is currently completing the final-year of her Bachelor of Business (Accounting) degree externally, is employed as Mine Accountant at BMA’s Goonyella Riverside Mine.

Director of the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research Heather Nancarrow will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Women in Research Conference.

Central Queensland University will host this year’s Women in Research Conference at the Gladstone campus on November 24 and 25.

Former CQU Melbourne student Arun Gopalakrishnan has made the successful transition from university life into the exciting world of the Australian military.

Arun, who completed a Graduate Diploma of Information Systems Management with CQU, recently celebrated 15 months of service in the Royal Australian Air Force.