Staff and students at CQU Sydney International Campus gathered for an opportunity to rub shoulders and engage in a social gathering outside the classrooms with free soft drinks and a barbecue provided for all those who attended.

This social event is put on regularly during term 1 and term 2 every year to provide an opportunity for new and continuing students to get together and mingle.

CQU researcher Claire Sellens has resorted to digging into sediment if a stream bed is dry, in her quest to sample water courses in the Fitzroy Basin.

 "I hope it rains soon," she says, as it has been very dry since she arrived in the region in September last year.

An extra matinee performance has been scheduled for Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music's Mackay production of 'High School Musical'. This is due to strong demand for tickets, especially from families during the school holidays.

In a glass-slipper approach, Rockhampton Cycling Club is keen to give every young person in Rockhampton the chance to be talented-spotted as a potential cycling champion of the future - even those who may never have ridden a bike.

Since Rockhampton has been a springboard for national, world and Olympic champions in the past, the Club has been awarded funding from the Australian Sports Commission's National Talent Identification and Development Program to search for the next generation of talent.

The Population Research Laboratory (PRL) within CQU's Centre for Social Science Research is conducting the 3rd annual Queensland Social Survey in July/August of this year.

The 2007 QSS is an omnibus survey that gathers information from a representative sample of the Queensland population using the Computer-Assisted-Telephone-Interview (CATI) technology resident in the PRL.

The CQU-based International Program of Psycho-Social Health Research (IPP-SHR) has strengthened its international research ties in a recent visit to Trivandrum, India.

IPP-SHR Program Manager, Mr Hamish Holewa, used the visit to establish a collaborative research project funded by the Commonwealth Government's Endeavour India Research Fellowship, awarded to IPP-SHR researchers earlier this year.