CQUniversity first year exercise and sport sciences student Nyree Humphris has been awarded a $7500 Iwasaki Foundation Scholarship to help ease the financial burden of university study.

The former North Rockhampton High School student said the scholarship was a welcomed boost to her university experience.

When Rockhampton Grammar School higher achiever Georgia Sullivan told her friends she was staying in Rockhampton and studying at her local university, most were surprised by the decision.

With an OP1 score Georgia was eligible to apply to any university in the country in any program and people just assumed she would study a degree in medicine or law.

CQUniversity is proud to be launching its new Leadership Speaker Series in Central Queensland next month as part of the "Leading to Greatness" program.

As part of this series the University will hold a "Leadership Matters" presentations with special guest keynote speaker Peter Baines.

Students worldwide are reaping the rewards of university undergraduate and postgraduate programs that link course work with on-the-job learning and CQUniversity has now captured a snapshot of what is happening globally in Work Integrated Learning in a new book.

According to CQUniversity's Dr Patrick Keleher, Work Integrated Learning marries together a student's work and study life, making their study experience not only flexible but relevant, contextual and authentic.

With nearly four times as many cases of measles in Australia reported in the first few weeks of 2011 alone, compared to all of 2005, trust in a decade-old fraudulent anti-vaccine report by some parents is risking everyone's health.

In 1998, a highly respected British medical journal, the Lancet, published a study that linked the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine to regressive autism.

There's an old joke that Bowen is known for three things ..

Interested people can find out about integrating work with learning, thanks to a forum scheduled the evening before a Student Careers Fair at CQUniversity Rockhampton.

Work-integrated learning consultant and author Associate Professor Janice Orrell will address the forum from 5pm on Monday, March 21, at Rockhampton's Travelodge.

Sarah-Joy Wolhuter first had her student ID photo taken as a 15-year-old schoolgirl, using her 'spare' school lessons to get a head start on university-level studies in journalism and public relations.

How things have changed during the past five years.

The $6 million renovation of the iconic library building at CQUniversity Rockhampton has reached lift-off, literally, as a 140-tonne crane was engaged on Friday (March 4) to remove eight of the 7-tonne sculptured panels from the front of the building.

The panels are making way for large feature windows to let in natural light and add ambience, as well as for an open air patio-type structure on the top floor.

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