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Bluebottles rev up for big sting
07 Aug 2007
A group of Charles Sturt University (CSU) students are out to "put the sting" into their more fancied rivals when they compete in the water polo competition in the upcoming Australian University Games, to be held on the Queensland Gold Coast from 23 to 28 September. The CSU Bluebottles, comprising nine CSU students from its Albury-Wodonga and two from Bathurst campuses, boasts seven regular top grade players who have represented the Ovens & Murray Association, NSW and Australian Country Teams. In July, the Bluebottles walked away with a bronze medal at the Australian universities’ East Coast Challenge and are confident of an even better performance on the Gold Coast. Team captain Matt Hogan, who played for the last three years in England and before that had stints with the Cronulla Sharks and Canberra Dolphins in the Australian National League, said, "We are going to the Gold Coast confident in our ability to be competitive. After our top three finish in Sydney we can go to the Australian University Games believing we are a medal chance.” The Bluebottles are looking for support from the Border community to get to the Games. Anyone interested can send an email to csubluebottles@hotmail.com
Media Note: For interviews, contact CSU Media. Print this story Stop the seep, save the water
31 Jul 2007
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) PhD candidate is investigating ways to reduce costly water loss from irrigation canals through seepage and techniques that can be used to plug the leaks. Jacqueline Watt, through the International Centre of WATER located at the CSU Wagga Wagga Campus, has conducted extensive field work in the Coleambally Irrigation Area, in inland NSW and the Rechna Doab Irrigation Area, in Pakistan. In her studies, Ms Watt measured the resistance of the irrigation canal and took soil samples to determine the volume of water leaving the canal. Ms Watt says, “This will provide irrigators with the ability to quickly determine the cost and benefit of lining irrigation canals with different materials, and the length of canal that needs to be lined”. Ms Watt expects her research will be of great benefit to Australian irrigation companies and hopes that her research in Pakistan will help the technology flow to other third world countries.
Media Note: For interviews with Jacqueline Watt contact CSU Media. Print this story More gold for CSU wines
31 Jul 2007
 The Charles Sturt University (CSU) Winery has been awarded three more prestigious wine show medals at the 2007 Boutique Wine Awards in Sydney. The CSU Winery claimed two Gold Medals and one Silver Medal, continuing the winery’s success at major Australian wine shows. The 2006 Limited Release Chardonnay was awarded a Gold Medal and more recently won Top Gold in its class at the 2007 Cowra Wine Show. This wine is produced from grapes grown in the University’s vineyard at Orange. The 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot also took a Gold Medal. This wine is produced from Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the University’s Wagga Wagga vineyard and from the Hilltops region in Young, NSW and Merlot grapes from Cowra. The 2005 Shiraz won a Silver Medal and although this wine is not yet released, it was also awarded a Silver Medal at the 2006 Wagga Wagga (Southern NSW) wine show. It is produced from grapes from CSU vineyards at Orange and Wagga Wagga and from the Gundagai region.
Media Note: CSU’s winemaker Richard Lawson is available for interviews, contact CSU Media. The Gold medal winning wines are available directly from the CSU Winery Cellar Door on the Wagga Wagga Campus.
Print this story CSU?s community radio awarded NRMA grant
31 Jul 2007
The National Roads and Motorists Association (NRMA) has awarded Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) community radio station 2MCE a $5 000 grant to produce an innovative road safety radio campaign. The campaign will target young drivers about the dangers of using mobile phones while driving, particularly during the hazardous winter months on roads between Bathurst and Orange. Coordinator of 2MCE’s Studio 4, Bronwen Matherson, said that CSU students will be involved in the production of the NRMA radio campaign. “This campaign will give local youth the chance to share their driving stories and experiences while raising road safety awareness at the same time,” Ms Matherson said. The campaign will include the production of four “driver safety” radio announcements to be broadcast 200 times each, and the exploration of road safety issues on 2MCE’s youth issues program That’ll Learn Ya. 2MCE operates from CSU’s Bathurst Campus.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews. See the 2MCE website for more information about the community station. Print this story Social development in India
31 Jul 2007
 Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Associate Professor Manohar Pawar highly commended the Indian ”rights-based approach” to economic development while speaking at a plenary session on “welfare-to-work” at the 15th symposium of the International Consortium for Social Development in Hong Kong. Professor Pawar particularly supported the right to education and right to work, which is the main basis of emerging social security in India. According to Professor Pawar, India, which is in the midst of liberalisation, free market and globalisation, has assumed the responsibility of providing work to its citizens by enacting the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005. He added India has also proposed to offer security to workers in the unorganised sector, when the Unorganised Workers' Social Security Bill is approved in the Parliament and contended that politics of welfare should not be geared for welfare of politics or politicians.
Media Note: For interviews with Associate Professor Manohar Pawar, contact CSU Media. Print this story Zen on the stage
31 Jul 2007
The theatre and the practice of meditation might seem unrelated, but not for some thespians who use the essence of Zen philosophy to enhance their performances on stage. Charles Sturt University (CSU) in conjunction with Wagga Wagga City Council is presenting a public lecture Zen and Theatre by John Bolton, Guest Director with the CSU School of Visual and Performing Arts and a Zen practitioner. In the lecture, he will present the story of one person’s adventure in theatre and Zen over the last 35 years. Mr Bolton believes that the actor is the one who makes the most mistakes, and the ability to continue to make mistake after mistake, discarding, polishing, and recreating, takes the same sort of steadfast centre of stillness that is found in Zen.
Media Note: The public lecture on Wednesday 1 August commences at 6pm in the Council Meeting Room, Wagga Wagga Civic Centre. CSU wines and cheese will be served following the lecture. Contact CSU Media for interviews. Print this story Federal shadow minister to visit CSU Bathurst Campus
30 Jul 2007
Charles Sturt University (CSU) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter, will welcome the Federal shadow Minister for Health, Ms Nicola Roxon, MP, and NSW MP Mr Bob Debus, when they visit the Bathurst Campus on Tuesday 31 July. Ms Roxon and Mr Debus will arrive at 3pm at the Heffron Building for a briefing with Professor Goulter before a tour of the Bathurst Campus, which will include an inspection of the new library Learning Commons and the School of Nursing buildings. Mr Debus is also the Australian Labor Party (ALP) candidate for the new seat of Macquarie in the coming 2007 Federal election.
Media Note: Media are welcome to join the tour following the briefing. Print this story Wentworth group rewards CSU student
25 Jul 2007
 Competing against some of the top young environmental scientists in Australia, Charles Sturt University (CSU) honours student John Rawsthorne has won a scholarship from the eminent Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists in recognition of his project on the importance of birds in spreading mistletoes in the Australian landscape. His supervisor Dr David Watson from the CSU School of Environmental Sciences asserts that the mistletoe is an important indicator of the health of Australian bush, and John’s research project will help discover how this occurs. In addition to receiving financial support from the Purves Environmental Trust to attend the 2007 Ecological Society of Australia conference in Perth in November, Mr Rawsthorne will also receive advice from leading Australian ecologists Professor Hugh Possingham and Dr Denis Saunders during the project, as well as attend a master class with senior scientists and fellow students in Sydney in October. John’s award is one of 19 presented to research students in universities around Australia. He is based in Forbes in central NSW.
Media Note: For interviews with John Rawsthorne and Dr David Watson, contact CSU Media. Print this story The guns of Kiska Island
24 Jul 2007
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) researcher is off on a trip offering “excitement of a life-time”. The trip to a remote Alaskan island is to gather an inventory of guns left behind by Japanese military forces after World War II. Archaeologist and principal researcher with CSU’s Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS), Associate Professor Dirk Spennemann has been contracted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to inspect and document the guns on Kiska Island in the Bering Strait and to assess their state of conservation. He is one of a party of five who will spend five days on the island. Professor Spenneman says “This research fits into my interest in modern heritage and the planning problems. We can’t plan for the island’s volcano erupting but at least if we can document what we have now, then we can plan for future management and how we might stop these guns rusting away or being stolen.”
Media Note: For interviews contact CSU Media
Print this story CSU Dubbo Campus hosts photography exhibition
24 Jul 2007
The Interactive Learning Centre (ILC) on the Dubbo Campus of Charles Sturt University (CSU) is the venue for the twentieth annual Western Districts National Exhibition of Photography. Ms Lorna White, the co-coordinator of the photography competition and exhibition, says that approximately 1000 entries were received from 105 amateur photographers from around Australia for the five categories – Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Nature, People, and Photojournalism. “The subjects of the photographs were varied and the standard was very high,” Ms White said. “Judging took place in June, and we have selected about 110 framed photographs to display.” The exhibition is open to the public this coming weekend, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 July, and is easily accessed through the CSU main entrance.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews.
Print this story International aid for CSU diabetes research
24 Jul 2007
 Medical researchers at Charles Sturt University are receiving overseas assistance to develop an early-warning system for detecting diabetes and heart disease in regional Australians. “Over 1 900 Australians are diagnosed each week with diabetes. We are looking to find the risk factors to help calculate the chance of a patient developing this debilitating disease, using common medical tests and computer software,” said research group leader, Dr Herbert Jelinek. For the past five years, around 800 participants from Albury-Wodonga and surrounding areas have provided heart rhythm readings, inner eye photographs, blood samples and feet tests, which are being analysed to find trends that will help detect the disease in its early stages. All this data is now part of comprehensive database developed over three months for the CSU research group by Emilien Pecoul, a postgraduate student from the University of Poitiers in France. “We are looking to prevent diabetes rather than deal with it after it happens. This software will enable us to search more efficiently and effectively for simple tests and factors that could signal early signs and help patients and medical professionals deal with it before it develops further,” Dr Jelinek said.
Media Note: Dr Herbert Jelinek and French student Emilien Pecoul are available for interviews and pictures at 10.30am, Thursday 26 July at Adams building, CSU Albury city site, Wilson St, Albury.
Print this story An international view on wine research
20 Jul 2007
 The new Director of Charles Sturt University's National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, Professor Thomas Henick-Kling will draw on his commercial and research experience to talk about the latest wine research developments worldwide at a evening dinner in Albury on Monday 23 July. A native of Germany, Professor Henick Kling is a wine microbiologist with commercial and experimental winemaking experience and knowledge of wines from Germany, France, USA, Australia and New Zealand. He has returned to Australia after 20 years with the prestigious Cornell University in USA. He has judged international wine competitions in USA and Europe and is on editorial boards for two international wine research journals. Participants will hear from Professor Henick-Kling before enjoying a two course meal in the Border Wine Room, Dean St, Albury.
Media Note: Professor Henick-Kling is available for interviews at 11am, Monday 23 July at CSU's Thurgoona site, off Old Sydney Road, Thurgoona. Print this story CSU builds on Chinese relations
17 Jul 2007
 Eight Charles Sturt University (CSU) International School of Business staff leave for China later this month to conduct intensive professional enhancement programs with their counterparts at four Chinese universities. Tianjin University of Commerce, Yunnan University of Economics and Finance, Changchun Taxation College and Yangzhou University are strategic partners with CSU for the delivery of business studies courses to international students overseas. Professor Alan Fish is Head of the International School of Business at CSU. He explains that the articulation agreements with the four Chinese institutions means students can graduate with both Chinese and western qualifications, making the students more employable. “We will be conducting intensive face-to-face sessions with the Chinese academics to familiarise them with assessment procedures and content of the CSU subjects,” Professor Fish said.
Media Note: CSU staff leave for China Thursday 26 July. Professor Alan Fish is available for interviews, contact CSU Media. The International School of Business staff travelling to China are Professor Alan Fish, Professor Terry Heazlewood, Associate Professor John Messing, Dr Ramudu Bhanugopan, Dr Robert Herriot, Tony Bush, Anthony Jarratt and Robert Scully. Print this story The many loves of Doris Bornemann
17 Jul 2007
 Doris Bornemann has a big heart. She says two of her loves include photography and also Charles Sturt University (CSU). As a former Student Liaison Officer she often opened her heart - and her home – to CSU students. “I would invite the lonely ones home for a baked dinner and a few home comforts. And the external students used to have regular parties at my house. They would look forward to it every residential school. I was made a Life Member of the Student Union. It was a great honour.” Doris worked at CSU for 20 years. She is also the only non-Academic on the Honour Board. Her contribution to CSU did not stop with her retirement 15 years ago. She now volunteers with the Emeritus Club, which funds “three or four” scholarships every year for CSU students. Doris’s other love, photography, is currently on display at the Bathurst Women’s Health Centre. One hundred and twelve photos reflect her wide ranging interests which take in both man-made and natural landscapes, animals and human portraiture.
Media Note: The Bathurst Women’s Health Centre Photographic Exhibition: Photographs by Doris Bornemann, opened at 2pm on Friday 13 July and runs until the end of the month Print this story CSU helping to overcome local government skills shortage
17 Jul 2007
Charles Sturt University (CSU) is working with the combined Central NSW Councils (CENTROC) to offset skill shortages affecting local government. CSU has offered flexible education programs and additional support to local government staff in target areas such as management, information technology, business, finance, human resources, tourism and marketing. Pat Bradbery, Manager of the Professional Development Unit in the School of Management and Marketing at CSU Bathurst, says a residential school at CSU Dubbo, planned for February 2008, will help the prospective students to “kick-start their study and networking. It will provide access to advanced technology, lecturers and other learning skills support staff”. Mr Bradbery says that CSU already runs a “highly successful postgraduate week-long residential program in Bathurst for local government finance professionals, and the Bachelor of Management provided through the Orange Campus is very well suited to the local government sector. We are in an excellent position to help CENTROC overcome its skills shortage.”
Media Note: Pat Bradbery is available for interviews, contact CSU Media.
Print this story CSU?s champion Hockey team
17 Jul 2007
Earlier this month, Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Women’s Hockey team picked up a gold medal at the inaugural East Coast Challenge University Games. CSU’s Men’s Hockey won silver despite being a man down for most of the competition, while the Men’s Water Polo team came away with bronze. Nik Granger, a student support officer, said this was the first time CSU had competed as one university with a team of 70 students representing Albury, Wagga Wagga, Bathurst and Dubbo campuses. “Overall, seeing as we had such a small team, the atmosphere was fantastic,” he said. CSU also had first year distance education Master of Applied Science (Library and Information Management) student Lisa Matuzelis competing in the Australian University Championships for Surfing at the Gold Coast. She came away with silver and bronze and a typically laconic surfer attitude: “I would have liked to have come first, but I’m pretty happy with the result. I can’t complain,” she said.
Media Note: CSU also had fielded Ultimate Frisbee and touch teams at the East Coast Challenge University Games. Nik Granger and Lisa Matuzelis are available for interviews, contact CSU Media Print this story CSU - working with Indigenous Australians
17 Jul 2007
 Charles Sturt University (CSU) is committed to an Indigenous Employment Strategy that promotes the employment of Indigenous Australians across all CSU schools and divisions. As part of this strategy a series of workshops have been planned. The first of this two part series was run at the Wagga Wagga Campus and Bathurst Campus in November and December 2006. Further workshops are now scheduled for July, August and September this year. Workshop 1 will provide an overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their culture, especially those of south eastern Australia and the issues that are important to them. Topics will include kinship and relationship to country, Aboriginal dreaming and spirituality, contemporary families and communities, and issues of inequality. Workshop 2 will touch on barriers to education and employment, promoting Indigenous employment at CSU, workplace issues and cross cultural communication, and look at protocols for community consultations.
Media Note: Workshop 1:
Wagga Wagga Campus Thursday 19th July; 9.30am – 2.30pm; Venue: Gulballana Room, Convention Centre Bathurst Campus Friday 17th August 2007; 9.30am – 2.30pm; Venue: HR Training Room, Phillips Building Workshop 2: Wagga Wagga Campus Friday 20th July; 9.30am – 2.30pm; Venue: Gulballana Room, Convention Centre Bathurst Campus Tuesday 18th September 2007; 9.30am – 2.30pm; Venue: HR Training Room, Phillips Building For interviews contact CSU Media
Print this story A journal for a brave new world
10 Jul 2007
 Will nano-technology save the world or spell the end of civilisation? Professor John Weckert of Charles Sturt University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics says as well as those two groups of people with diametrically opposed view of this new technology, there is also a third viewpoint: “These voices are trying to get the arguments into perspective so that the technology can be used in ways that are most beneficial.” Professor Weckert is the editor-in-chief of a new journal, NanoEthics. “It was thought that now is a good time to set up an academic journal that can be a forum for serious discussion of these issues,” said Professor Weckert. He says the journal is aimed at academics, philosophers, ethicists, policy makers and “people involved in regulation, many of whom are lawyers. It is very much a cross-disciplinary journal.”
Media Note: Professor John Weckert is available for interviews. NanoEthics on line can be seen here. For more on the John Weckert’s views on the controversial field of nano-technology, especially human enhancement, see here. Print this story Improving Aboriginal mental health
10 Jul 2007
 Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Djirruwang Program Bachelor of Health Science (Mental Health) aims to create a critical mass of highly skilled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners to deal with mental health problems in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This innovative program has been acknowledged by the NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Mental Health) the Hon. Paul Lynch, who described is as a “significant commitment” by CSU. Mr Lynch’s comments came during the official launch of the NSW Aboriginal Mental Health and Well Being Policy 2006-2010 last week on CSU’s Wagga Wagga Campus. “The Djirruwang Program meets the national practice standards of the mental health workforce, making Charles Sturt University the first university course to use nationally agreed practice standards in mental health,” he said.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media for interviews. Print this story Nurses raise professional standing on the job
10 Jul 2007
 Nurses working in the Riverina will be able to complete their nursing degrees while working in their communities thanks to a collaborative program between Charles Sturt University (CSU), Greater Southern Area Health Service (GSAHS) and the Riverina Institute of TAFE. Thirty Enrolled Nurses with the GSAHS will upgrade their qualifications to Registered Nurse by enrolling in the CSU Bachelor of Nursing in 2008. To prepare them for their studies via distance education, they are participating in a two day workshop funded by the GSAHS at the University’s Wagga Wagga Campus on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 July. Workshop organiser Heather Latham says this successful partnership between CSU and GSAHS is helping address the critical shortage of qualified nurses in regional Australia and the Riverina. This group will join the 35 GSAHS nurses who commenced their CSU degrees earlier this year.
Media Note: For interviews with workshop coordinators Heather Latham and Jan Manners, contact CSU Media.
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