CQUniversity students Rachel Dunphy and Shantel Nasir are looking forward to a two-week study tour to Canada, in late September and early October..

Sunshine Coast students are striking the right chord with the music industry, thanks to a newly-established pathway from TAFE to CQUniversity..

Researchers are looking into the social implications and environmental consquences of floods and flood debris which followed record-breaking rains in the Gladstone and Rockhampton areas last summer..

CQUniversity lecturer Steve Noakes has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the United Nations-endorsed Global Sustainable Tourism Council - the only global multi-stakeholder non-governmental organization that has 'sustainability for the tourism sector' as its core mission.

A leading advocate for sustainable tourism approaches in the Pacific Asia region and an active industry player for the past 30 years, the Mackay-based academic is the only representative from the Pacific region on the Washington DC-based Board.

When Rockhampton's Tina Devonshire walked across the graduation stage to accept her Bachelor of Accounting degree recently, she became the third of her siblings to do so.

Tina is now a financial analyst for QR National, so she's already drawing on her degree experience.

There's been an excellent response to recent campus visits by Swami Atmeshananda, Associate Minister of the Vedanta Centre of Sydney (a branch of the Ramakrishna Mission).

CQUniversity sponsored the Swami's visits to Rockhampton and Gladstone campuses in early September.

Talented Queenslanders will have plenty of chance to shine as auditions for CQUniversity music and theatre programs are scheduled along Queensland's coastline during November.

The Bachelor of Theatre and Bachelor of Music audition tour starts in Brisbane (Nov 1-2) and continues in Noosa (Nov 3), Townsville (Nov 3-4), Rockhampton (Nov 8), Mackay (Nov 9) and Bundaberg (Nov 9).

CQUniversity senior lecturer Steve Noakes has returned from Dar es Salaam province in Tanzania, where he was lead facilitator for a multi-country seminar on tourism policy and strategy.

The five-day seminar was conducted by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and its Themis Foundation for Education & Training.

Students from the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday regions still have time to apply for a highly sought after BMC Building My Career scholarship, with applications set to close on October 20.

The scholarships are the result of A$1.

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.