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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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Full spectrum of success at Near Infrared conference 

Published on 03 May, 2012 

CQUniversity Professor Kerry Walsh and his PhD student Umesh Acharya recently took part in the 15th Australian Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference, held at Queenstown, New Zealand...

PhotoID:12330, PhD student Umesh Acharya and Professor Kerry Walsh visit the Plant and Food Research facility in New Zealand
PhD student Umesh Acharya and Professor Kerry Walsh visit the Plant and Food Research facility in New Zealand

They presented two papers namely:

Managing temperature variation in the assessment of internal fruit quality using near infrared spectroscopy; and

Assessment of dry extract system of pesticide residue analysis on fruit surface using near infrared spectroscopy.

Mr Acharya earned a student presentation award for his oral paper. Further, he also scored a prize in a chemometric data analysis competition conducted during the conference.

While returning from the conference, Professor Walsh and Mr Acharya visited Plant and Food Research, Hamilton, New Zealand to present their work and to negotiate activity within a prospective Horticulture Australia-funded project. 

Apart from his research and supervision, Professor Walsh is Director of the Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability, known as IRIS.

PhotoID:12331, Umesh (left front) at the conference
Umesh (left front) at the conference