After five years in Ontario, CSU has signaled it is here to stay with three new programs on offer to professionals in Canada's most populous Province.

The journey is full of twists and turns for an Indigenous academic at Charles Sturt University, who began his academic studies on a dare.

Starting school can be exciting and, perhaps, a little scary – and that's just for parents. Schools are big and busy. Education researchers at CSU have developed guidelines to help parents, teachers and children as they start school.

What do bouncing balls, dancing robots, a 'digital' patient, and heavy mining processes have in common? The answer is Dr Richard Xu, a Charles Sturt University lecturer in computer science at the School of Accounting and Computer Science at Bathurst, who describes himself as "more an engineer than a researcher".

An investigation into the perceptions of child sexual abuse in regional Australia has revealed a worrying gap in the communities understanding of what actually constitutes child sexual abuse.

Widespread rape and murder continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa, but CSU academic Dr Elaine Dietsch says her annual visit to the strife-torn country puts trans-cultural midwifery, primary health care and women's and children's health into a global perspective for her.

Providing real solutions to close the gap in health services between metropolitan and rural Australia has prompted three key researchers at CSU to devise a blueprint for rural health based on human rights.

Ray Harding was one of the last evacuated by helicopter from the US embassy roof as Saigon fell to communist North Vietnam forces in 1975. His has been a circuitous route from Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was born and raised, to Charles Sturt University’s School of Communication.

The rape of women and little girls as a strategy by rival factions in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a shocking reality for a Charles Sturt University academic.

John Howard asked him to judge the inaugural Prime Minister’s History Prize, the Deputy Prime Minister launched his biography of Harold Holt, and the new Leader of the Opposition often engages him in vigorous debate. He is The Right Reverend Dr Thomas Frame, the new Head of Charles Sturt University’s School of Theology in Canberra.