The new CQU Emerald Campus located at Emerald Agricultural College will host two significant events over the next week.

The first student and staff orientation at the new location will be held from 9am-11am on Friday, July 9.

Twenty-seven senior high school students from throughout Central Queensland visited CQU Rockhampton this week for a university experience.

The students are from places including Barcaldine, Blackall, Mt Morgan, Bundaberg, Gracemere, Gin Gin, Zilzie, Gladstone, Emerald, Yandaran, Yeppoon and Littlebella.

The launch of the 3rd volume of Memory Lane stories from inspirational and interesting Central Queenslanders was held this week at the Old Supreme Court building in East Street.

More than 100 guests attended the book launch hosted by CQU's Division of University Relations.

More than 800 staff members from at least 88 teams will take place in CQU’s 10 000 Steps Challenge for workplaces.

The challenge will start with simultaneous launches in Rockhampton, Emerald, Bundaberg, Mackay and Gladstone on Monday, July 12 (at 12.

The cream of student presentations were on show during a Graduating Engineers Conference at CQU Rockhampton on Friday, June 25.

Final-year projects by graduating engineers ranged from those relating to roads, railways, mining and construction to one involving a steering device for the student’s 12-foot tinnie.

About 120 academics from throughout the world converged on CQU Rockhampton this week to discuss IT for information transfer and IT education.

They attended the Informing Science and Information Technology Education (InSITE) joint conference from June 25-28, hosted by CQU’s Faculty of Informatics and Communication.

A Brisbane-based CQU researcher, Dr Pam McGrath, has helped develop a new palliative care model for Indigenous communities, after studying the delivery of services in the Northern Territory.

According to ABC Online, the National Health and Medical Research Council funded the two-year project, which audited the services provided by the Territory Health Department and non-government organisations.

Idiom 23 Literary Magazine will get a new look this year as Dr Jeannette Delamoir takes over the role as editor from Dr Geoff Danaher and founding editor Liz Huf.

Published by Central Queensland University students and staff since 1987, the magazine has become a popular choice for emerging writers, not only from the region but from all over Australia.

Two delegates to next week’s 12th annual International Employment Relations Association conference (July 5-8) will relate a comparison of the trade union histories of Townsville and Rockhampton.

While the main conference is being held at Yeppoon, the historical perspectives will be delivered in an appropriate setting at Rockhampton’s heritage-listed former Supreme Court in East Street, from 2.

Global workplace changes will continue to influence life in the regions and job trends of Australians, according to speakers due at the 12th annual International Employment Relations Association conference next week (July 5-8).

Abstracts available at the conference website (via http://www.