CQUniversity has welcomed news that the new Sarina Medical Imaging Clinic will provide clinical placements for a medical imaging student and a medical sonography student.

These programs have recently accepted their first students based at Mackay Campus.

CQUniversity Melbourne is rich with cultural diversity, having many staff and students from different cultural backgrounds.

A recent Taste of Harmony celebration lunch gave all the opportunity to acknowledge and enjoy the diversity of campus cultures.

CQUniversity Australia's Institute for Health and Social Science Research (IHSSR) has been appointed to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Social Research (FSANZ) Panel for an initial period of three years.

The appointment, achieved through a competitive tendering process, was formerly announced late last week.

The North Keppel Island Environmental Education Centre will host the annual Idiom 23 Writers' Workshop, from May 20-21.

The workshop is presented by Idiom 23 magazine and CQUniversity.

Music lovers are welcome at the Big Night In concert at CQUniversity Rockhampton Campus, from 7.30pm this Friday evening (April 1).

CQUniversity's Mackay Student Residential Accommodation has only recently been expanded but the growing band of residents are already developing their engagement with the local community.

They held a community fundraiser at Mackay Canelands shopping centre recently which raised more than $200.

Premier Joh visiting flood victims in a tinnie, rock star Peter Garrett in the days when crowds cheered for him, pop sensations the Village People touring rural Queensland, fantastic fashions and salt-of-the-earth locals developing their region..

Residents from CQUniversity's Capricornia College are planning their second visit to the children's ward at Rockhampton Base Hospital this Saturday, to show their care, compassion and concern for the community.

Residential Life Manager Kay Brodel says the College gives students a great environment to live and learn, operating as an academic residential community of undergraduate and postgraduate members drawn from Australian rural and suburban areas, as well as many overseas locations.

Mackay student Michael Hoare may not (yet) have the recognition factor of Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter) but they are sharing the same music theatre role, at least in a parallel sense.

Radcliffe plays the lovable window washer and business go-getter J.

Kelly Spuur is an experienced mammographer with more than two decades in the field, but she's not prepared to rest on her laurels.

"The role of the mammographer in the diagnosis of breast cancer is hugely underrated," she says.