CQUniversity sleep and fatigue specialist Associate Professor Naomi Rogers has featured on a Radio National Health Report on the benefits of napping.

Dr Rogers had a significant portion of air-time alongside other national and international experts and representatives of industry, including managers from Google.

Inspirational author and professional development coach Stephen Chong will visit CQUniversity Rockhampton's Bookshop to promote and sign his latest publication, The Music of the Soul.

The Music of the Soul is described as 'a pathway to a rich and fulfilling life'.

The President of Beijing University of Agriculture, Professor Wang Younian and his senior colleagues visited CQUniversity's Rockhampton and Sydney campuses at the end of September.

Professor Younian was accompanied by Professor Kefeng Liu, Dean of the Urban and Rural Development College, and Professor Liu Fang, Deputy Dean of the College of Economics Management.

STEPS preparatory students based at CQUniversity Mackay recently converged on their local blood bank office to boost donations in the tropical city.

Organiser Kate Wilson from the Extended STEPS class accompanied eight others to the event, including associate lecturers Irena Lee and Lex Reedman and members of the Accelerated and Extended classes.

CQUniversity's own version of the European Union will reluctantly split up and head back to their home countries soon, after a term as exchange students on Rockhampton Campus..

When Ian McNeilly walked across his graduation stage to accept a PhD recently, he marked a milestone that would have seemed particularly remote 30 years ago when he was in a hospital bed partially paralysed down one side, and beginning his prolonged recovery from a serious motorbike accident.

Reflecting on his journey since the accident, Ian believes a focus on study and self-development, avoiding the distraction of physical limitations, has been a key to his gradual recovery.

CQUniversity researcher Kylie Hopkins has received a ‘Special Mention for a Young Person's Presentation' award during the recent Horticulture for the Future conference, held at Lorne along Victoria's Great Ocean Road.

Kylie presented her recent research from Yeppoon and Bundaberg on herbicides and Stevia rebaudiana - the herb from Paraguay that produces an intense natural sweetener in its foliage.

CQUniversity is helping to foster innovation in the local sustainability and clean technology sectors, with two events to be facilitated by the recent CEO of the Australian Institute of Commercialisation, Dr Rowan Gilmore.

Next Tuesday, October 11, the University's Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability (IRIS) will target small and medium enterprises to take part in a dinner workshop.

More than 230 students throughout Central Queensland will soon celebrate completion of their STEPS preparatory program, which gives them the confidence and skills to enrol in a university degree.

STEPS completion ceremonies will be held at CQUniversity campuses in Bundaberg (from 2.

Visiting Nepalese researcher Karuna Shrestha has gained her PhD by proving that cattle stomachs left over from the meat processing industry, can be used as a 'compost tea' to improve soil health.

The CQUniversity postgraduate tested a compost tea based on cattle stomachs, including undigested grass, and found that compost extracts will find an expanded role in agriculture, principally for disease control.