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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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Top cyclists roped in for tights testing 

Published on 27 September, 2006 

CQU has begun research into the actual performance benefits of compression tights, building on other studies showing they have physical benefits.

PhotoID:3476 The CQU study is the first in Australia to use a Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) device to examine the consumption of oxygen within the thigh muscles of athletes wearing the tights.

Researcher Ben Dascombe, a PhD candidate in Health & Human Performance, has Queensland Academy of Sport grant funding and garments supplied by Skins and has started testing cyclists (with and without tights) in Rockhampton.

Mr Dascombe said the NIRS device uses 2 wavelengths which correspond to hemoglobin with and without oxygen attached.

PhotoID:3477 Photo (above): PhD candidate Ben Dascombe (right) with honours student Aaron Scanlan, who is helping with the testing.

Photo (below): Queensland Academy of Sport supported cyclist Josh Edwards contributes to the testing.