LaserShow highlights far north QLD's Nobel Prize hero As part of National Science Week JCU is hosting the LaserShow highlighting the curious story of Aleksandr Prokhorov. Prokhorov, who was born on the Atherton Tablelands, went on to become a co-winner of the Nobel...
The “Best Semester Abroad” competition has chosen 20 winners from 10 countries to study in Queensland. Each of the 20 winners will spend 5 months in Brisbane, Cairns or the Gold Coast studying at their chosen educational institution. Australia has some of the best...
Science of our minds revealed at National Science Week When hip-hop singer Naomi Wenitong woke up from a coma three months after being pronounced dead in a car accident it was her bushy eyebrows that shocked her, not the multiple fractures in her face or her complete...
Tropical North QLD Innovation Awards - enter now! Entries are now open for the newly launched 2016 Tropical North Queensland Innovation Awards (TNQiA) will recognise and reward those working innovatively across the vast and diverse Tropical North Queensland region....
JCU Dental is celebrating a major milestone this month, having treated over 40,000 individual new patients in the past four and a half years. Patients at the not-for-profit dental clinic at James Cook University’s Cairns campus are treated by student dentists in the...
James Cook University student Ava Kirkby sailed into Cairns recently aboard the Young Endeavour ready to tackle any challenge after 10 days at sea on the Australian tall ship. In her third year of a Bachelor of Sustainability at the Cairns Campus, Ms Kirkby is a...
New image for Study Cairns helps attract new students to local area Study Cairns this week unveiled an exciting transformation of its visual identity through the announcement of a new logo. Study Cairns President, Carol Doyle, said the new logo adopts a clean and...
Game changer: Cairns to be transformed by new CQUniversity campus Cairns’ elevation to the status of a two-University city was confirmed today following the major announcement of CQUniversity’s much-anticipated CBD campus, CQUniversity Cairns Square. Located on...
Cairns to gain 1st full on-Campus Engineering Degree – CQUNI welcomes funding pledge CQUniversity has welcomed an LNP State election commitment to provide $1 million in support of its plans to deliver Cairns’ first full on-campus engineering degree. At the moment,...
Local students give G20 delegates a taste of Cairns Treasurer Joe Hockey and Member for Leichhardt, Warren Entsch today announced that local students will play an important part in welcoming G20 delegates to Cairns next week. Twenty-three Cairns TAFE students will be...