Former CQ Conservatorium of Music staff member and current CQU PhD student Dimitri Kopanakis recently sang the Australian or Greek anthem at seven events in as many days recently.

Dimitri's busy week included the Premier's farewell dinner to Queensland Olympians, then an Australian Council for Europe celebration at Parliament House, and also Brisbane's annual Paniyiri Greek Festival.

The June discussion forum on ‘Graduate Characteristics at CQU’ provided staff with the opportunity to consider the issue of ‘graphicacy’ as a generic skill.

Gene Dayton, Teaching Scholar and Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at CQU, presented an enlightening overview of some fundamental approaches to communicating visually.

Despite being unable to complete a secondary school education, 74 year-old Mackay resident Mary Cowper will graduate from Central Queensland University on Saturday.

World War II bombings in her hometown Liverpool, England meant she never attended high school and relied on her 12 siblings to teach her to read and write.

Central Queensland University graduate Dr Leonie Andersen was recently presented with a Master of Applied Science degree after four years of research on mud crab shell disease.

An outbreak of rust spot lesions on the shells of the local mud crab population raised the concern of local fisherman and instigated a fisheries funded research investigation into the problem.

At the Australian Universities Quality Agency board meeting held on June 1, the directors elected Professor Deryck Schreuder as Chair and Ms Leigh Tabrett as Deputy Chair.

The Australian Universities Quality Forum is taking place in Adelaide on July 7-9.

The former Supreme Court in East Street, Rockhampton, has a new life as a hub for Central Queensland University staff engaged in business and industry research and development.

Senior researchers and research students from CQU’s Faculty of Business & Law have moved into the building, which is being renovated to enable research activities and community workshops.

If you’re travelling on a highway in south-east Queensland, it may scare you to know some of your fellow travellers may be falling asleep after 15 hours of working and driving.

That is according to Professor Peter Smith, who has identified a trend for metropolitan people to work longer hours and commute further, causing severe fatigue problems.

Central Queensland University researcher Ben Kele’s work with the ‘bottom end of the food chain’ has paid off with the recent commercialisation of his wastewater treatment system design.

The Kele Effluent and Wastewater Treatment System (KEWT) is a unique system for the treatment of wastewater and effluent which is now be marketed by GBG Project Management ( www.

Former Gladstone resident Glen Hooley received a Faculty Medal during last Saturday’s CQU Gladstone graduation ceremony.

Mr Hooley completed his schooling at Chanel College before heading to CQU Rockhampton to complete a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education double degree.

Central Queensland has a team of 'wise champions' according to visiting American environmental engineer Dr Steven McCutcheon.

"In the world of phytoremediation of contaminated soils, you have three champions" he said.