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Home > Latest News > Society 23 Jul 2006
"This is such an important area, there hasn't been anything like it done in the world. There are no profiles of missing persons at all. Having a tool where there are strong indicators or markers for what's happened to the missing person is a first." Dr Shaunagh Foy from Charles Sturt University is talking about her ground breaking research into who goes missing and why. The NSW Police Force hope it will help solve missing persons cases more quickly. 20 Jul 2006
Racial and religious intolerance is nothing new…it might be hard for Generation X to believe, but it wasn’t so long ago that Protestants looked down on Catholics who were enemies with the Freemasons…and they were almost all prejudiced against Chinese immigrants, according to Dr Robert Tierney, lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU). Taking the heat out of prescribed burning 17 Jul 2006
Is prescribed burning a good thing or not? How do you resolve potential conflicts between impacts on tourism and public health with its role in bushfire management and the ecological health of our forests? 14 Jul 2006
Yesterday the Education, Science and Training Minister, Julie Bishop, announced the federal government will hold a National Music Workshop in August, in response to the National Review of School Music Education findings. Dr Christopher Klopper has taken on board the findings of the Review and in just a few months reinvigorated music teaching at the Charles Sturt University. Coal versus nuclear: the debate we have to have 03 Jul 2006
Should Australia have a nuclear industry? According to the Prime Minister John Howard, this is a debate we have to have. Dr Roderick Duncan is a lecturer in economics at Charles Sturt University (CSU). He says nuclear power is probably not economically feasible in a country like Australia. 20 Jun 2006
History will be made in Ontario, Canada on Friday 23 June at two formal graduation ceremonies for over 150 Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduates at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington. Mitchell Link to benefit CSU in learning, teaching and research 09 Jun 2006
Sir Thomas Mitchell would surely approve of the Mitchell Link, a new high speed fibre optic link which will greatly benefit the Bathurst and Orange campuses of Charles Sturt University (CSU). For the first time, the regionally-based University campuses will connect into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN), which was established in 2002 to provide large bandwidth capabilities to the country’s universities. Media alert: Minister launches Mitchell Link 07 Jun 2006
Australian Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, will formally announce the allocation of $4.5 million to the construction of a high speed fibre optic network that will connect Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bathurst and Orange campuses into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN). 06 Jun 2006
In an historic step, the Orange Campus has been formally transferred to Charles Sturt University (CSU) from the University of Sydney. Charles Sturt University honours Sir William Deane 01 Jun 2006
Australia’s former Governor-General, The Honourable Sir William Deane, will receive an Honorary Doctorate (honoris causa) from Charles Sturt University this Friday, 2 June at the CSU School of Theology graduation ceremony in Canberra. |
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