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27 Mar 2012
Starting in Bathurst on Thursday 29 March, the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Division of Learning and Teaching Services will hold forums on a number of its campuses for academics to discuss developments in online and mobile learning and teaching at the University. Forums facilitator, Associate Professor Philip Uys, the Director of Strategic Learning and Teaching Innovation in the CSU Division of Learning and Teaching Services, said, “The continued evolution of quality in learning and teaching at Charles Sturt University, and the growing expectations of our students for appropriate technology responses, requires the University’s staff to skilfully use an ever-growing set of internal and external educational technologies. Charles Sturt University is increasing its digital, mobile and paperless learning and teaching, which pose challenges for strategists of these new technologies, and for academics using them. It will be good to share information about education technology developments at the University and have some in-depth conversations about why these changes are occurring. We will explore what the learning and teaching potential of the respective educational technologies is, and what issues we are facing.”

Media Officer	: Bruce Andrews
Telephone	: 02 63386084

Media Note: Goulburn - Tuesday 17 April at 11am-1pm - venue to be advised by School of Policing Studies.
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27 Mar 2012
Co-founder of the non-profit peacemaking educational company, Preaching Peace, Mr Michael Hardin, will visit Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga during his trip to Australia. A theologian and author from the USA, Mr Hardin is a member of the Akron Mennonite Church in Pennsylvania. He brings his message about a peaceful God to CSU when he delivers the next Saint Martin's College Occasional Seminar from 4pm on Monday 2 April in the Fairfax Centre, building 382, CSU in Wagga Wagga. His seminar, titled Nonviolent Atonement, is free and open to the public. As executive director of Preaching Peace, Mr Hardin is also affiliated with the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Saint Martin’s College is a residential university college run by the Anglican Church. It is located at CSU in Wagga Wagga.

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

Media Note: Mr Michael Hardin is available for interview from the afternoon of Monday 2 April until 11am Tuesday 3 April. For further information, contact Saint Martin’s College Head, The Rev. Jennifer Willsher on 02 6933 4966. To assist with catering, RSVP to Rev. Willsher on 02 6933 4966 or by email jwillsher@csu.edu.au.
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27 Mar 2012
The Charles Sturt University (CSU) Education For Practice Institute will hold its second national summit on professional and practice-based education in Sydney on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 April. Professor Joy Higgs, AM, the summit convener and Director of the Education For Practice Institute, said, “The summit provides a forum for university educators and researchers to address practice-based education challenges, examine advances in this field, and share good practices and models. The theme for this year is ‘Education for Practice, Work and Society’, and leading academics from Australia, including Professor Andrew Vann, the new Vice-Chancellor and President of Charles Sturt University, are keynote presenters at the summit.” Other presenters include CSU Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Ross Chambers, Professor Joy Higgs (CSU), Dr Franziska Trede (CSU), Professor David Boud (UTS), Professor Stephen Billett (Griffith University), Professor Jan Orrell (Flinders University), Dr Dale Sheehan (Canterbury University, NZ), and Ms Suzi Hewlett from the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Resources and Tertiary Education.

Media Officer	: Bruce Andrews
Telephone	: 02 63386084

Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews.
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27 Mar 2012
The annual Somerville Lecture celebrates the contribution of Professor Warren Somerville to the scientific and Bathurst communities, and in 2012 the lecture will be delivered by Charles Sturt University (CSU) scientist Dr Andrew Rawson at the new Flannery Centre in Bathurst on Tuesday 17 April. Dr Rawson is an adjunct associate professor at the CSU School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences who teaches climate change science at CSU in Orange. He is also a senior scientist with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, and his primary role within the NSW government is to provide scientific support to climate change policy development. Dr Rawson has contributed to the NSW Greenhouse Plan, the NSW Soils Policy, and the NSW Climate Impacts Profile. The topic of Dr Rawson’s lecture is, Climate Change – reconciling modern climate change with the geological record. CSU education lecturer and Somerville Lecture spokesman, Dr Peter Wilson, said, “This is the third Somerville Lecture and it will be a very appropriate inaugural event at the newly-completed Flannery Centre. The subject of climate change is now an abiding topic of public interest and debate, and the Centre will provide a focus for practical environmentally responsible training and skills development.”

Media Officer	: Bruce Andrews
Telephone	: 02 63386084

Media Note: Tickets for the lecture, which includes a light supper, can be purchased from the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum (Home of the Somerville Collection) at 224 Howick Street, Bathurst, or by phoning 63315511; lecture and supper $40, Friends of the Museum/concession $35, students $20.
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21 Mar 2012
Charles Sturt University (CSU) bestowed an honorary doctorate on a professor of policing from China when he visited CSU in Manly on Tuesday 20 March. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at CSU, Professor Ross Chambers, said Professor Shiquan Wang, the President of China Criminal Police University (CCPU) in Liaoning Province, was a highly notable and worthy recipient of the CSU honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) because of his contribution to international police education. “Charles Sturt University recognises and wishes to acknowledge that Professor Wang is a leading forensic science teacher and researcher in his field,” Professor Chambers said. “He has made an outstanding contribution to international collaboration in policing and police education, and in particular, to collaboration with this University. Through Professor Wang’s leadership, our two universities have developed a close collaboration that currently sees five CCPU staff based at Charles Sturt University undertaking full-time PhDs. CCPU undergraduate students are able to spend 12 months in Australia so that they complete a CSU Bachelor of Policing as well as their CCPU degree. So far, there have been three intakes of students, and our two universities have collaborated in seminars and conferences, most recently in Indonesia. These developments reflect Professor Wang’s strong personal commitment to international linkages and collaboration, and his vision of the importance of internationalisation in education, and for policing.”

Media Officer	: Bruce Andrews
Telephone	: 02 63386084

Media Note: Professor Wang is leading a delegation of staff from the CCPU to visit the Australian Graduate School of Policing at CSU in Manly to discuss strengthening the ongoing relationship between the two universities. Prior to becoming President of CCPU in 2002, Professor Wang was Vice-President of CCPU and head of the department devoted to document examination. CCPU is China’s leading university for forensic and investigative sciences. Its graduates become detectives or forensic scientists, and CCPU also houses major national forensic laboratories. Under President Wang’s leadership it has played a major role in the development and professionalisation of investigative policing in China and in the establishment of international linkages.
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21 Mar 2012

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
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20 Mar 2012
Charles Sturt University (CSU) has been named as the first Australian host of an international lecture at the National Library in Canberra to promote the importance of information in the high technology age. Professor of Information Studies at CSU, Lisa Given, said, “This is the first time that the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has awarded this lecture series to an institution outside North America.” Canadian academic, Emeritus Professor Gloria Leckie, from the University of Western Ontario, will deliver the ASIS&T lecture from 5pm on Wednesday 21 March. Her free public lecture at the National Library of Australia, From Facebook to Twitter and Into the Cloud: Where is Library and Information Science in our Googleized World?, will explore the meaning of libraries and information centres in today’s technological world. Read more on CSU News here.

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

Media Note: CSU’s School of Information Studies is hosting the ASIS&T Lecture. It is part of CSU’s Faculty of Education and is involved in teaching and research in information science and teacher librarianship.
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20 Mar 2012
An agreement between Charles Sturt University (CSU) and the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) to provide study options for business studies students will be marked in a ceremony in Wagga Wagga this week. A new Memorandum of Understanding will be signed by CSU’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ross Chambers, and CIT Chief Executive Officer, Mr Adrian Marron, on Wednesday 21 March to continue the cooperation between the two education providers. CIT is a TAFE partner of CSU for the Pathway Program into business studies. CIT students complete an Advanced Diploma, and then complete CSU subjects (delivered on CIT’s Reid campus in Canberra) in their final year of study. After three years of study, students graduate with an Advanced Diploma from CIT and a degree in business studies from CSU. Professor Chambers said, “This new agreement will strengthen pathways for students between the Canberra Institute of Technology and Charles Sturt University, as well as the development of further academic cooperation.” Read more here.

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

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20 Mar 2012

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

Media Note: The Science@CSU Roadshow is from 4pm to 5pm, Wednesday 21 March in the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, building 412, McKeown Drive, CSU in Wagga Wagga. Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Nick Klomp, will be at CSU in Wagga Wagga from 11am on Wednesday 21 March. For interviews, contact CSU Media.
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20 Mar 2012
The centre of Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Albury-Wodonga will be abuzz on Wednesday 21 March when the CSU community celebrates national Harmony Day. Commencing at 12 noon, international students and staff will have stalls, displays and demonstrations highlighting the cultures, unique skills and food that they bring to Australia. Food stalls will ring the main circle near the Gums Café, while a martial arts display by students from South Korea will be staged in the same area. The event is part of Harmony Day celebrations across Australia on 21 March. Members of the Albury-Wodonga and CSU coummunities are welcome to attend the event.

Media Officer	: Wes Ward
Telephone	: 02 6051 9906

Media Note: Harmony Day celebrations at CSU in Albury-Wodonga commence at 12 noon on Wednesday 21 March in front of The Gums Café, CSU in Albury-Wodonga, off Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona. The martial arts demonstration will commence at 12.30pm. Contact CSU Media for interviews with event organiser and international student support officer Ms Rachel Ayton.
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20 Mar 2012
Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange will celebrate its cultural diversity on Wednesday 21 March which is national Harmony Day. “The past 10 years has seen an encouraging change in dynamics and cultures on the campus,” said Head of Campus, Dr Heather Robinson. “I think this comes with the increased diversity in courses offered on the campus. The undergraduate student body is a wonderful mixture of young people of all cultural backgrounds and we continue to host postgraduate students from Asia, Africa and Europe. It makes for a rich and diverse campus experience.” With the theme for Harmony Day 2012 Sport - play, engage, inspire, CSU will host a game of frisbee and a barbecue from midday at the CSU sports oval, with all staff, students and visitors welcome to attend.

Media Officer	: Holly-Amber Manning
Telephone	: 02 6365 7813

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20 Mar 2012
The academic successes of current environmental and health students from Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Faculty of Science will be celebrated on Thursday 22 March at CSU in Albury-Wodonga. The Dean of Science, Professor Nick Klomp, will present awards and prizes for academic excellence, including the prestigious DA Johnstone Perpetual Award for the top environmental sciences student. “Stopping to recognise and celebrate academic excellence is an important part of the University’s commitment in the pursuit of excellence,” said Professor Klomp. Current and graduating undergraduate and postgraduate students will receive prizes from local and international companies and organisations as well as Dean’s awards from 2pm in the Gum’s Café at Thurgoona.

Media Officer	: Wes Ward
Telephone	: 02 6051 9906

Media Note: The presentation of Dean’s Awards and academic prizes commences at 2pm on Thursday 22 March in the Gums Café, CSU in Albury-Wodonga, off Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona. Contact CSU Media for interviews with the Dean of Science at CSU, Professor Nick Klomp, before or after the event.
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20 Mar 2012
Science at Charles Sturt University (CSU) and its innovations in teaching and research will be on show to the Border community on Thursday 22 March in a presentation by and the Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Science, Professor Nick Klomp, who is also a renowned science broadcaster. “The Faculty of Science is one of the largest and most diverse science faculties in Australasia, with around 9 000 students and hundreds of staff in seven schools across six campuses. We teach and conduct research in a variety of science and health disciplines from veterinary science to dentistry, nursing to environmental studies, forensic biotechnology to wine science, agriculture to allied health. I will also speak about CSU’s bid for a medical school,” Professor Klomp said. Teachers, students, industry representatives, and the general public will receive information about courses leading to science careers, current and future research collaborations, and professional training in the University’s multi-million dollar research and training facilities and clinics, some of which are located in Albury-Wodonga.

Media Officer	: Wes Ward
Telephone	: 02 6051 9906

Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with the Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Science, Professor Nick Klomp. The Science@CSU presentation will commence at 4pm in the Gums Café, CSU in Albury-Wodonga, off Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona. Refreshments will be served after the presentation.
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20 Mar 2012
Ms Maria Williams, the daughter of the late Wiradjuri Elder, Wongamar, also known as Pastor Cec Grant, will honour her father’s legacy at a public lecture in Canberra on Friday 23 March. The 2012 Pastor Cec Grant Memorial Lecture  focuses on the interactions between Australian Indigenous cultures and Christianity, and the history of Indigenous Christian movements. In 2008, Charles Sturt University (CSU) established the annual Pastor Cec Grant Memorial Lecture to recognise and celebrate the work of Pastor Grant, OAM. Ms Williams will present her lecture from 7pm at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACC&C) in Canberra. The annual Pastor Cec Grant Memorial Lecture is supported by CSU, the Wiradjuri Council of Elders, and the Wiradjuri Christian Development Ministries.

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

Media Note: Wongamar was a senior Wiradjuri Elder and Christian leader. He was born in Condobolin in central western NSW and died aged 71 at Albury in 2005. He was a founding member of the Wiradjuri Christian Development Ministries, as well as the Wiradjuri Council of Elders.
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20 Mar 2012
The Booranga Writers’ Centre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga will welcome its first writer-in-residence for 2012, with the arrival of Ms Jennifer Mills. The South Australian-based author has written the novels The Diamond Anchor (2009) and Gone (2011), both published by University of Queensland Press, and the poetry collection Treading Earth (2008). A collection of short stories, The Rest Is Weight, will be released this year. Ms Mills won the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 2008-9, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories, and she is a regular contributor to New Matilda and Overland. During her residency until Friday 30 March, Ms Mills will be special guest at a writers’ workshop from 2pm on Saturday 24 March at the Booranga Writers’ Centre, building 410, McKeown Drive, CSU in Wagga Wagga and at a public reading at the Riverina Regional Library in Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga from 5pm on Wednesday 28 March.

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

Media Note: The Booranga Writers’ Centre links writers across the Riverina and provides professional development, networks, and resources for readers and writers in Wagga Wagga, the Riverina region, and Albury. The writer-in-residence program is supported by the NSW Government (through Arts NSW), CSU and Wagga City Wagga Council.
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19 Mar 2012

Media Officer	: Emily Malone
Telephone	: 02 69332207

Media Note: Professor Andrew Vann will meet with students from 11am Monday 19 March at CSU in Ontario, 860 Harrington Court, Burlington.
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19 Mar 2012

Final year information technology student Mr Andrew Dotta from Griffith is one of 14 students and graduates of Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Faculty of Business who will be honoured for their academic achievements during a ceremony in Wagga Wagga on Tuesday 20 March. The students and graduates are due to attend the award ceremony from 10am to 10.45am in the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, building 406, McKeown Drive, CSU in Wagga Wagga. Host and Dean of the Faculty of Business Professor Lesley White will present her Dean’s Award to seven students and three graduates from the Faculty of Business. A further four students will receive prizes including the Max Lee Memorial Prize for Excellence in Completion of Second Year Information Technology for Mr Dotta. In his final year of a Bachelor of Information Technology at CSU in Wagga Wagga, Mr Dotta will be awarded the prize by the Head of the School of Computing and Mathematics, Associate Professor Irfan Altas.  

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

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13 Mar 2012
The Dean of the Faculty of Business, Professor Lesley White, will host a ceremony to present 11 prizes to outstanding students in the Faculty of Business at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 14 March. “The prizes cover a range of disciplines including accounting, taxation, management, marketing, information technology and computer science, and I am delighted that they are made available to outstanding students by organisations which understand the importance of supporting our future business leaders,” Professor White said. Sponsors include the Central West Law Society, Pearson Australia, St George Bank Ltd, the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants, CPA Australia Ltd, Devro Pty Ltd, LexisNexis Australia, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Twenty three Dean’s List Awards will also be presented to acknowledge outstanding academic performance by students in the Faculty.

Media Officer	: Bruce Andrews
Telephone	: 02 63386084

Media Note: The presentation ceremony is at 10am Wednesday 14 March in the James Hardie Room at the Centre for Professional Development at CSU in Bathurst.
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13 Mar 2012
A new seminar series from Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Wagga Wagga City Council to assist local small businesses kicks off in the city this week, with a session on marketing. Dr Lan Snell and Dr Heather Crawford from the University’s School of Management and Marketing will present the first seminar from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on Wednesday 14 March in the Civic Centre, Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga. The session will explore marketing issues facing small businesses, including digital marketing, an introduction to online consumer behaviour, search engine marketing, and the application of various social media tools for marketing. Further seminars in the series on finance and human resources will be held in April and June. Read more on CSU News here.

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

Media Note: Dr Lan Snell is a marketing lecturer in the School of Management and Marketing at CSU in Bathurst. She is an ex-officio Board Member of the Wagga Wagga Business Chamber in recognition of CSU's contribution to the Wagga Wagga business community. Dr Snell is available for interview. Contact CSU Media.
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13 Mar 2012

Media Officer	: Fiona Halloran
Telephone	: 02 6933 2207

Media Note: UTE is a part of the School of Communication and Creative Industries at CSU in Wagga Wagga, providing vital professional experience for students in courses such as acting for screen and stage and design for theatre and television.
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