First-year student Morgan Garrity must have done something to impress Australian theatre luminary Chloe Dallimore, during the recent production of Sweet Charity, at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music based at CQUniversity Mackay.

Morgan assisted Chloe during the Mackay production and now, on Chloe's recommendation, she's been offered a job as 'assistant to the director' on Sydney's professional season of Annie.

CQUniversity has arranged to host leading experts on learning and teaching from England and Scotland, meaning our academics will be able to draw on the latest best practice from the United Kingdom in 2012.

Appointments under the 'Visiting Professors' principles include two Emeritus Professors from Leeds Metropolitan University, Sally Brown and Phil Race, and the Director of Quality Assurance from Dundee University, Jonathan Weyers.

In around 12 months' time (Oct 5-6, 2012), the School of Nursing and Midwifery will be holding a conference celebrating 20 years of graduating nursing students from CQUniversity.

The working title of the conference 'Celebrating the Past; Creating the Future', will attract nurses and midwives from the region, from the alumni and interstate.

CQUniversity's Rockhampton graduation ceremony could be viewed from a fresh perspective, as around 1000 friends and family members chose to observe from new telescopic seating established at the CQ Community Sports Centre venue.

Apart from twice-yearly graduations, it's expected the venue will also become popular for major regional sporting, cultural and musical events able to attract between 2000-3000 patrons.

CQUniversity was proud to be a platinum sponsor for the 2011 Nepalese dance competition held in Brisbane recently.

This competition is an Australia-wide event jointly organised by the Nepalese Association of Queensland and the Non-Resident Nepalese Association.

CQUniversity has added to its art acquisitions by purchasing a beautiful pit-fired pot* made by Steve Bishopric at Nob Creek Pottery in Byfield.

The University now has three Bishopric pieces, adding to the significance of its campus art collection curated by Holly Grech-Fitzgerald.

Riti Sharan came all the way from India this week to join PhD graduates celebrating at the Rockhampton Graduation Ceremony.

It won't be long before she returns to New Delhi to join her new husband, an MBA in Finance, and to refocus on her research into the immunology of tuberculosis.

Muslim staff and students are welcoming a greater choice of halal foods, with a special menu now available from the Rockhampton Campus refectory.

Halal foods are those allowed under Islamic dietary guidelines.

CQUniversity student Esther Tarosa is looking forward to using her accounting degree skills to help develop the profession in her home country of Vanuatu.

But Esther's new skill set goes beyond the official curriculum.

This week's CQUniversity graduation ceremony in Rockhampton features four honorary awards and a record number of doctoral awards for a single ceremony.

The ceremony, from 2pm Thursday, at the CQ Community Sports Centre on campus, also features a guest address by recently-retired Supreme Court Judge, The Honourable Stan Jones AO, QC, LLB Qld, who was a long-serving Chancellor of CQUniversity.