Roswell New Mexico seems a world away from Rockhampton, Queensland.

One connection is American Mallory Bailey who recently completed her second stint at CQUniversity Rockhampton Campus with a flourish, attending the writers' workshop on North Keppel Island in early May.

Engaging communities and working in partnership with Indigenous Australians is a top priority for CQUniversity's newly appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) Professor Bronwyn Fredericks.

Professor Fredericks met with a number of Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from the North Brisbane region last week at Queensland University of Technology's Oodgeroo Unit.

More than 20 participants from a range of different environmental and water quality management groups benefited from a workshop and presentation at CQUniversity Mackay during the first day of the Healthy Waterways Symposium.

Representatives from Reef Catchments, Pioneer Landcare Catchment, Mackay Regional Council and BioSecurity gathered to hear from CQUniversity's Dr Larelle Fabro who spoke on stratification and sampling methodologies in wetland environments.

If u can understand dis sentence, u mite just b contributing 2 da downfall  of da English language as we no it.

That's the verdict of CQUniversity researcher Dr Michael Cowling, who claims the rise of the ‘txt' generation is making spelling a dying art.

Two CQUniversity students are furthering their development in music and theatre thanks to mentor and internationally renowned stage performer Dale Pengelly.

William Hinze, who is studying in Mackay and Elissa Finn, who is at the Rockhampton campus have recently been awarded the Dale Pengelly Prize for Most Promising Student in Theatre Performance and Music Performance respectively.

Federal Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research Senator Chris Evans emphasised that libraries are no longer what they used to be, as he officially opened the newly refurbished CQUniversity Rockhampton Campus library this week..

Two athletes from Central Queensland are looking forward to representing their state at the Special Olympics Junior Nationals scheduled during December in Newcastle.

Jarrod Lee from Gladstone and Joshua Holloway from Rockhampton are looking forward to their challenge, organised via the Gladstone Region branch of the Special Olympics organisation.

Noosa caught the eye of some of Europe's top learning methods academics this week, as researchers from as far as Germany, Scotland, Ireland, England, South Africa, France, Malaysia and Finland gathered at the local CQUniversity campus for Australia's first ever eye tracker conference..

Leaders in water quality management and research will gather at CQUniversity Mackay to share ideas and work towards protecting the Mackay Whitsunday catchments at the Healthy Waterways Symposium from June 13 to 15.

The Healthy Waterways Symposium Mackay Whitsunday Isaac, hosted by Reef Catchments, will feature the latest research findings around land and water management impacting the Great Barrier Reef.

CQUniversity Mackay could hold the key to skilling hundreds of engineers for the region's booming resources industry as it sets the wheels in motion to deliver a $16.6 million Engineering Precinct.