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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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PhotoID:15001, Forum participants L-R Professor Barry Golding, Jan Crowley, Assoc Prof Bobby Harreveld, Shelley Truscott and Sally Thompson

Adult learning peak body visits, calls for 'reassessment'

The president of Australia's peak adult learning body, Professor Barry Golding has visited Rockhampton for a forum calling for a reassessment of adult education in Australia.

CQUniversity hosted the forum at its Ron Smyth Building in Quay Street.

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  • Proving maths really adds up for society
    Published on 04 December, 2012

    CQUniversity's Professor Qing-Long Han has been striding the world stage in Mathematical Sciences, proving along the way that maths really adds up as a boon for society.

    Professor Han is a researcher in time-delay systems, networked control systems, robust control and fault-tolerant control.

  • Fresh project funding under CQUni Research Development and Incentives Program
    Published on 04 December, 2012

    Seed Grant Scheme

    Dr Gillian Busch

    Conquering the tyranny of distance: how families use video communication technologies during intergenerational SKYPE sessions

    $9,691

    Dr Vincent Dalbo

    Effects of chronic aerobic exercise on biomarkers of myostatin pathway activity and insulin resistance in dietary induced obese Wistar  rats

    $9,455

    Dr Susan Davis, Dr Angelina Ambrosetti

    Digital tools for dramatic engagement - Transforming sustainability education for the digital age

    $9,810

    Dr Sandrine Makiela

    Microbial characterisation of the soils in the wheat growing regions of central Queensland

    $9,967

    Dr Jessica Paterson

    Increasing resilience to fatigue in Australian paramedics

    $9,884

    Dr Bradley Smith

    Behavioural development in a unique Australian mammal: The dingo (Canis dingo)

    $9,804

    Merit Grant Scheme

    Dr Xuan Zhou, Dr Charli Sargent

    Can the recovery value of daytime sleep be optimised to reduce fatigue risk for night workers in safety-critical industries?

    $50,000

  • Uni Ball photo highlights
    Published on 03 December, 2012
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  • Earth's final wilderness captured in art
    Published on 03 December, 2012

    Ardent sailor and artist Peter Anderson depicts the awesome splendour of the ocean as Earth's final wilderness, in a painting launched recently in CQUniversity's Rockhampton Campus library..

  • Presentations galore at Indigenous Awards Night
    Published on 03 December, 2012

    Professor Bronwyn Fredericks recently represented CQUniversity at the 6th Annual Indigenous Awards Night organised by Darumbal Community Youth Service in partnership with a range of other organisations.

    Prof Fredericks attended in her capacity as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and BMA Chair in Indigenous Engagement.

  • Top teens feted on Gladstone Campus
    Published on 03 December, 2012

    CQUniversity Gladstone is hosting an afternoon tea event from 3.30pm this Thursday (Dec 6) to recognise academic achievements by local high school students.

  • Pilot CSG water treatment plant already attracting interest
    Published on 03 December, 2012

    CQUniversity researcher Ben Kele recently attracted an audience of State Government reps while installing his pilot plant for the treatment of water associated with Westside's coal seam gas operation at Moura.

    About 20 visitors from the Department of Environment and Heritage and the Department of Mines toured the facility.

  • A taste of success with Agave, source of tequila drink fuels interest
    Published on 03 December, 2012

    Agave tequilana, the plant which produces the tequila drink, is being investigated as a potential source for bioethanol fuel production in Queensland.

    CQUniversity has been at the forefront of this research for several years and researchers have started to taste success.

  • 'Circus Skills' tour ends with a flourish
    Published on 30 November, 2012

    School kids and residents in the regional Queensland towns of Woorabinda, Baralaba, Eidsvold and Mount Morgan recently had the chance to learn circus skills, with the help of two professional trainers from Brisbane's Flipside Circus, as part of an Artists in Residence program.

    The Flipside Circus trainers spent two weeks in each community, where they worked with schools, community organisations, community members and families to develop their circus skills.

  • Uni launches literary magazine, copies available
    Published on 30 November, 2012

    CQUniversity has launched its latest Idiom 23 Literary Magazine at the Rockhampton Campus bookshop.

    This year's collection of stories, poems, photographs, and creative nonfiction all pertain to the theme of 'stories of the sea'.