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Discover how you can link into the CSU global network - Your Alumni and enjoy a continuing involvement with your University. Information on the opportunity to undertake post-graduate study, attend events, widen your professional and social networks and take advantage of the benefits offered by our Alumni membership programme including great offers on travel.

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Upcoming Events

October 17th, 18th & 19th - Wagga Wagga Teachers' College Class of 1957-58 -  Wagga Wagga, NSW 
 
October 24th, 25th & 26th - Wagga Agricultural College Class of 1956 - Wagga Wagga, NSW
 
November 16th - Bathurst Teachers' College Class of 1952-53 - The Mountain Heritage Hotel and Spa Retreat, corner Apex and Lovell Streets, Katoomba.

For information on all 2008 Reunions and events click here or contact the Alumni Relations Officer on  02 6338 4629 or email alumni@csu.edu.au


Olympics provide lasting memories for CSU lecturer


CSU lecturer Dr Stephen Bird helped the Indonesian national team win medals at the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, China, shared a bus ride with Jamaican gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt, met the entire US Olympic basketball team, and narrowly missed catching the football David Beckham kicked into the crowd at the closing ceremony.

CSU students in print for international media


Journalism students at CSU will produce a daily newspaper for the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association annual conference – PANPA '08 – on Queensland's Gold Coast from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 September.

An online approach to plants


When nature didn't match the academic sessions for students of botany and ecology at CSU, one academic looked for a solution and came up with an innovative teaching method.

Limits to life in the fast lane


While modern athletes seem to be a marvel of evolution, a CSU academic questions whether the remarkable stamina that they display is a product of modern training techniques and a deep understanding of human and animal physiology or 'mind over matter'.

Selling the Crown jewels?


A CSU academic has likened any plans to sell off Travelling Stock Reserves to "selling off NSW’s Crown jewels in a garage sale".
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Alumni Spotlight

Dr. Marc Bradshaw’s Wine Named in “Top Ten Syrahs” in the World

Pillitteri Estates Winery Winemaster Dr. Marc Bradshaw’s Shiraz Icewine, for a second year in a row, has been named one of the “Top Ten Syrahs” in the world at the “Syrah du Monde” wine competition, held in Ampius France May 15-16, 2008.
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Previous Spotlights

Malaysian CSU Alumni Team Place Second in the Australian Alumni Hunteroos Race

IT was a traffic-stopping sight! The Australian Alumni Hunteroos Race saw 25 teams, comprising four members each, participating in a 10km walk-ride-challenge event around central Kuala Lumpur recently.

Hamish MacDonald Wins Young Journalist of the Year Award

Breaking News - At a glittering ceremony on 21st February, 2008 at the London Hilton on Park Lane, Hamish was presented with the Award by the Royal Television Society.

CSU mourns former Chancellor David Asimus

Flags across all campuses of Charles Sturt University (CSU) were lowered to half-mast to mark the passing of former Chancellor, Dr David Asimus, AO, on Australia Day, 26 January 2008 at the age of 75.

Tad Pietrzykowski and The Dark Nebula

Tad Pietrzykowski is a pioneer of the Australian comic industry.

Peter Rayner loves a challenge

“This is the last time!” Peter exclaimed but when asked what attracted him most to this current job he had to confess “it was simply the challenge, or as Mallory said ‘because it was there’.”
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