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Science show goes bush
04 Apr 2011
The nationally recognised Science in the Bush program coordinated by the Australian Museum will be hosted by Charles Sturt University (CSU) this week in Albury. During the two-day event, CSU staff will run three hands-on workshops on such topics as wetland bugs, funky feet and Darwin’s worms. “Science in the Bush recognises that in Australia we must do more to interest kids in science”, CSU's Dean of Science, Professor Nick Klomp said. “We want them to feel the excitement of science and discovery so we can produce our fair share of scientists in inland Australia.” High school students from the Border will attend the event at the University's Thurgoona site, starting at 9.30am on Tuesday 5 April, while primary school students will visit CSU on Wednesday 6 April.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews and pictures with presenters, visitors and event organisers. The event will be held in various buildings and locations at CSU in Albury-Wodonga, off Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona. Print this story Graduates committed to social justice
29 Mar 2011
 Three months working with traumatised children in a developing country has given a Charles Sturt University (CSU) social work graduate a new perspective on life. Ms Rhonda Emonson, from Albury, will be among the first four graduates of the Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying). As part of her postgraduate studies at CSU, Ms Emonson worked with orphans on the island of Negros Occidental, west of the Philippines. “We’ve all heard about communities that survive without sewerage, electricity, shelter, and on a cup of rice a day,” she said. “To live in these circumstances is heartbreaking yet inspirational.” She said the international work placement has been a highlight of her studies. “It’s created a yearning to work with those who have so few resources and struggle to survive from day to day as a result of poverty and lack of infrastructure,” she said. The Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying) allows students with a prior degree to gain professional accreditation with the Australian Association of Social Workers. Read more about the six graduation ceremonies at CSU in Wagga Wagga from Wednesday 30 March to Friday 1 April 2011.
Media Note: Two students will graduate with a Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying) from 2.30pm on Thursday 31 March in Joyes Hall at CSU in Wagga Wagga. Print this story Un-Earthed Hour at CSU in Albury
29 Mar 2011
Students at Charles Sturt University in Albury-Wodonga will meld care for the environment with music when they stage the ‘Un-Earthed Hour’ event on the Albury-Wodonga Campus on Tuesday 29 March. CSU registered to take part in Earth Hour on Saturday 26 March and encouraged students and staff to support this initiative by turning off all non-essential lights and equipment when they headed home on Friday. To also celebrate Earth Hour, the CSU Division of Student Services and CSU Green supported a number of events around its campuses, and at CSU in Albury/Thurgoona there will be live acoustic music (‘Un-Earthed Hour’) and pizza on the oval between residences from 7.30pm on Tuesday 29th March. The University is attempting to measure its energy savings achieved during Earth Hour this year.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews. Print this story Leading psychology-law scholar to visit CSU
29 Mar 2011
A leading international psychology and law expert is visiting Australia at the invitation of Charles Sturt University (CSU) and will present several seminars and workshops for policing and psychology students and practitioners. Professor Siegfried L Sporer, social psychologist from the University of Giessen in Germany, is the guest of CSU’s Australian Graduate School of Policing in Manly, and the School of Psychology in Bathurst. Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Justice and Psychology researcher at CSU, said, “Professor Sporer will visit Charles Sturt University in Bathurst on Wednesday 30 March to present a four-hour workshop about meta-analysis for staff and students. Head of the CSU School of Psychology, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology Michael Kiernan, will host this forum. On Thursday 31 March, Professor Sporer will present a colloquium hosted by the School of Psychology at CSU in Bathurst. The topic is ‘New Insights from recent meta-analyses on detecting deception: Why are people so bad at it, and how to make them better’.”
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews. The meta-analysis workshop is from 2pm to 6pm on Wednesday 30 March at room 218, building C2, at CSU in Bathurst. The ‘detecting deception’ colloquium at the School of Psychology in Bathurst is at 3.30 pm on Thursday 31 March in the large group room 2.4, building C7.
Print this story Prints on show at CSU
29 Mar 2011
 An exhibition of contemporary Australian prints will be featured at Joyes Hall at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga during graduation week. The fair & square print exchange portfolio has been compiled by Melbourne artist Ms Rona Green and features prints from 44 artists. Ms Green asked other artists to create a new work and she’s given them to the CSU Art Collection through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. CSU Art Curator, Thomas A. Middlemost, says it’s a snapshot of Australian printmaking. “The exhibition includes portraits, landscapes and abstract art,” he said. “The portfolio will give greater contemporary depth to the extensive body of printmaking in the CSU Art Collection.” The CSU Art Collection is comprised of twentieth century Australian works used for research and teaching. The fair & square exhibition opening will be held at Joyes Hall CSU in Wagga Friday 1 April at 6pm. It will be on display to the public during graduation from Wednesday 30 March to Friday 1 April and throughout April by appointment with the CSU Art Curator on 02 6925 3666.
Media Note: Exhibiting artists include: Tony Ameneiro, G W Bot, Darren Bryant, Jon Butt, Filomena Coppola, Jan Davis, Elizabeth Dobrilla, Graeme Drendel, Di Ellis, Caryn Giblin, Jackie Gorring, Jillian Green, Rona Green, Rita Hall, Gregory Harrison, Jackie Hocking, Joanna Kambourian, Andrew Keall, Michael Kempson, Jenny Kitchener, Deborah Klein, Anita Laurence, Dianne Longley, Jade Mahoney, Rebecca Mayo, Ron McBurnie, Clyde McGill, Aaron McLoughlin, Anne McMaster, Travis Paterson, Jenny Peterson, Mandy Renard, John Ryrie, Annelise Scott, Heather Shimmen, Glen Skien, Stephen Spurrier, Sophia Szilagyi, Justin Trendall, Scott Trevelyan, Paul Uhlmann, Christine Willcocks, Anthea Williams andDeborah Williams. Print this story Final seminar for CSU Bathurst half-marathon and 10km runners
29 Mar 2011
The second free seminar for participants in the 25th CSU Bathurst Half Marathon and 10 kilometre Run will be presented by Charles Sturt University (CSU) School of Human Movement Studies lecturers at the CSU gym lecture room from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday 5 April. CSU lecturer and seminar organiser Mr Peter Micalos said the two presentations at the seminar aim to provide runners with current scientific knowledge about how to enhance their performance. “This seminar offers presentations by Dr Eric Drinkwater and me,” Mr Micalos said. “Dr Drinkwater will examine why runners should add some weight lifting to their training regime, and I will highlight the current literature on the different types of dietary fats and their effect on health and performance.” The 25th CSU Bathurst Half Marathon and 10 kilometre Run on Sunday 1 May is staged over a flat, fast course on pathways and country lanes around the Macquarie River, and starts and finishes at the Bathurst Rugby Club in Hereford Street, Bathurst. The entry fee is $30 or $15 for students, and includes a free sausage sizzle at the presentation, and random-draw prizes.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Mr Peter Micalos. The seminar is from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday 5 April at the CSU gym lecture room, CD Blake Auditorium, Village Drive, at CSU in Bathurst.
Dr Eric Drinkwater’s topic is titled Why should endurance athletes include weight training exercise? He says many athletes believe that lifting weights will make them slow and muscle-bound, but recent research indicates that weight lifting can improve running economy and fatigue resistance, as well as improve resistance to a variety of running-related injuries. While this seminar will not teach participants to lift weights, it will argue why runners should add some weight lifting to their training regime.
Print this story Surfing to success
29 Mar 2011
One Charles Sturt University (CSU) student is holding onto her surf life saving club membership despite her move to inland Australia to complete her studies. Ms Bec Thomson, a Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science student at CSU in Wagga Wagga, is pursuing her chosen sport - surf life saving - with a passion, setting her sights on the coming national championships on the Gold Coast early next month. Originally from the small town of Ulverstone in northwest Tasmania, Ms Thomson transferred from a university in her home state to the medical radiation science program at CSU in Wagga Wagga in 2011. During the State Surf Championships held on Tasmania’s Clifton Beach on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 March, Ms Thomson won four out of the five individual races. They included the surf race, board race, ski and tube rescue races. Representing the Devonport Surf Life Saving Club, Ms Thomson also won the mixed double ski event and was a member of the winning relay teams. The CSU student took home eight gold and four silver medals. “Given that my sport is in the sea, I used to spend every day at the beach. So now being four hours inland has certainly been a bit of a change,” Ms Thomson said. “I swapped my surf ski for a kayak. I paddle with the Wagga Wagga Bidgee Canoe Club on the Murrumbidgee River three or four times a week. I also swim four times a week at the local aquatic centre.”
Media Note: CSU student Ms Bec Thomson will compete in the 2011 Australian Surf Life Saving Championships at Kurrawa Beach in Queensland from Saturday 2 April to Sunday 10 April. She is in the second year of a Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science in the School of Dentistry and Health Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga. Print this story CSU hosts Practice-Based Education Summit
29 Mar 2011
Charles Sturt University (CSU) will host the 2011 Practice-Based Education Summit in two sessions at two venues in April. Professor Joy Higgs, the Director of CSU’s Education for Practice Institute, said the summit will hear from Australian and international experts, led by CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, including Professors Dave Boud, Stephen Billett and Peter Goodyear. “Higher education places a high priority on preparation of graduates for work and life,” Professor Higgs said. “This Summit provides a forum for those working in practice-based education to highlight challenges to the field, and contribute to its advancement by sharing good practice models and examples.” The first session of the Summit will be held at the CSU centre at 102 Bennelong Parkway, Sydney Olympic Park, on Thursday 7 April, and will be followed by a two-day residential forum at CSU in Bathurst on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 April.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Professor Joy Higgs. Print this story Leaders in management
29 Mar 2011
Two Charles Sturt University (CSU) staff will explore their skills as middle level managers after securing places in an Australia-wide industry-based leadership training program. Mrs Debra Bell, from the Division of Human Resources at CSU in Wagga Wagga, and Ms Amanda Davies, from the School of Policing Studies at CSU in Goulburn, were awarded scholarships valued at $8 000 each in the Australian Applied Management Colloquium. As part of the six-month intensive management development program, the women will attend two residential schools at Thurgoona in May and again in October. Mrs Bell said, “I am excited to secure a place in the competitive program and to explore my middle management skills and gain further confidence with people from other organisations. Charles Sturt University has also supported staff involvement in the program.” Ms Davies said, “The opportunity to participate in this management development program complements the University’s commitment to support rural and regional communities, and enhance workplace management capacities.”
Media Note: Mrs Debra Bell is the Manager of Learning and Development in the Division of Human Resources based at CSU in Wagga Wagga. Ms Amanda Davies is Course Director at the School of Policing Studies at CSU in Goulburn. The Australian Applied Management Colloquium follows ‘extensive research carried out by the Workplace Training Advisory of Australia and responds to a widespread need to increase the quality of Australian management by promoting and enhancing the critical dimensions of managing others’. Read more here.
Print this story Is water, not carbon, focus for climate debate?
22 Mar 2011
A visiting international academic to Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Albury-Wodonga throws new light on climate change by asserting the gradual breakdown of the Earth’s water cycles caused by land clearing is playing a major role in climate change. Hosted by CSU’s Institute for Land, Water and Society, Professor Jan Pokorný, a plant physiologist from the Czech Republic will present his controversial views in a meeting to be held in Albury starting at 3pm on Wednesday 23 March. “The circulation of water in nature is driven by solar energy and takes place through 'large' [global] and 'small' [local] water cycles. Humanity, through activities such as agriculture and forestry systematically transforms natural land into cultured land, which accelerates the runoff of rainwater from land and increases the temperature of the land,” says Professor Pokorný. “The local water balance is disturbed and gradually breaks down over land. Global climate change is seen to be caused by human activities, where land clearing affects water drainage which causes temperatures to rise and trigger more climatic extremes: more frequent flooding, longer periods of drought and an increase in the water shortage in regions worldwide.”
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Professor Jan Pokorný, who will present a seminar at Room 202, Teaching and Learning building, CSU in Albury-Wodonga, off Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona, starting at 3pm on Wednesday 23 March. Dr Pokorný’s views are expressed in a recent special issue of the International Journal on Water addressing the role of water and plants in climate.
Print this story Call for blood donors
22 Mar 2011
It is hoped that some good old fashioned inter-campus rivalry at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will encourage staff and students to donate to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. The Red Cross 2011 Inter-campus Blood Donation Challenge is being run until July. The mobile blood bank will parked in the CSU car park near Beres Ellwood Oval, Nathan Cobb Drive at CSU in Wagga Wagga from 8.30am to 3pm on Monday 28 March, and from 10.30am to 6pm on Tuesday 29 March. Appointments can be made online here or by calling 13 14 95. Read about blood donor arrangements for CSU in Bathurst here.
Media Note: One in three Australians will need blood during their life, yet only one in 30 donate blood. For CSU staff and students to have their donation count toward the Wagga Wagga campus tally, they must register online with Club Red here. The CSU group is called Charles Sturt University. Donors are asked to ensure they eat a good meal, drink plenty of water and bring staff or student ID. Print this story CSU Ag Club sets challenge
22 Mar 2011
 Members of the Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Ag Club will host a qualifying round for the Royal Agricultural Society’s Young Farmer Challenge on Friday 25 March at CSU in Orange. Students from the Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management are just some of those competing in the event which is designed to promote excellence in farming and showcase the involvement of youth in agriculture. “The Charles Sturt University Ag Club has a team competing in the Young Farmer Challenge but there is also an Orange Fire Brigade team, rugby teams, and students from St Stanislaus and Mackillop colleges taking part,” said CSU Ag Club president Mr Richard Connell. “We’re hoping to have about 40 competitors donating their entry fees to mental health agency Beyond Blue.” The teams of ten will compete in challenges including basic farm skills such as fencing, carting hay and shearing. “We encourage those interested in agriculture to join the CSU Ag Club which is not just for students. It’s for anyone keen to be part of an agricultural network.”
Media Note: The Young Farmer Challenge will take place at CSU in Orange from 5.30pm on Friday 25 March. For more information contact CSU Media Print this story CSU in Orange graduation
22 Mar 2011
Students from a range of science degrees at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange will graduate at a ceremony on Friday 25 March. The Head of Campus at CSU in Orange, Professor Kevin Parton, said, “There are 160 students from allied health, medical sciences, and agricultural sciences graduating from Charles Sturt University in Orange this year, and a large proportion of these students will take up employment in regional NSW, contributing to our workforce and communities.” The Occasional Address will be delivered by CSU medical school consultant Professor John Dwyer, AO, with active student Ms Nicole Forbes giving the vote of thanks on behalf of the students. The graduation ceremony starts at 10.30am at the Orange Civic Theatre, Byng Street, Orange.
Media Note: For interviews contact CSU Media. Print this story Nursing and paramedic MyDay at CSU in Bathurst
22 Mar 2011
About 50 senior students from 12 high schools in the region will gain information and insights about nursing and paramedic courses they can study when they attend the MyDay promotion at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Tuesday 29 March. CSU Prospective Student Adviser, Ms Fran Dwyer, said, “This MyDay will provide general information sessions and interactive sessions with academics from the nursing and paramedic disciplines and courses at Charles Sturt University. These are important disciplines with increasing employment opportunities and expanding career options, so we aim to confirm the students’ interest in these fields.” Participating high schools include Canowindra, Coolah, Crookwell, Bathurst, Kelso, La Salle Lithgow, Mudgee, Orange Christian School, Orange High, Peak Hill, Springwood, and Henry Lawson Grenfell.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews. Print this story CSU forum: NSW election a test for independents
22 Mar 2011
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) lecturer who will be a guest speaker at a political forum at CSU in Albury-Wodonga on Wednesday 23 March is predicting the NSW election could be an acid test for the role of independents in Australian politics. Dr Troy Whitford, from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU, is keeping a close watch on the performance of independent candidates in regional electorates. "The federal scene may have people second guessing the role of independents and their ability to contribute to good government," he said. With widespread predictions of a Coalition victory in the Saturday 26 March poll, Dr Whitford says the makeup of the NSW Legislative Council could be interesting. "It really depends on how much of a mandate voters want to give the prospective coalition government," he said. "A new government won't want to be stuck in negotiations with minor parties and independents." Read more here.
Media Note: The political forum at CSU in Albury-Wodonga commences at 7pm on Wednesday 23 March in the CD Blake Lecture Theatre, off Elizabeth Mitchell Drive at CSU in Thurgoona.
Dr Whitford lectures in politics at CSU in Wagga Wagga. He is a member of CSU’s International Centre of Water for Food Security and is also a director of the Page Research Centre.
Print this story Sport reigns over learning for one afternoon
22 Mar 2011
Students with Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Albury-Wodonga will take a break from the normal mental challenges of study to pit themselves against fellow students from CSU in Wagga Wagga and La Trobe University in Wodonga in some physical competition in the annual Southern Zone Challenge this Thursday 24 March. The students will commence playing mixed netball and mixed touch from 3.30pm at Thurgoona Football Oval and Netball Courts, Tabletop Rd, Thurgoona, followed by presentations, a barbeque and music at ‘The G’ on the University’s Thurgoona campus. Student services adviser, Ms Kerry Read, said the event gives students the opportunity to travel to other universities and campuses and socialise with their peers.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews. Print this story Bathurst church service for Japan disasters
22 Mar 2011
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic who was due to travel to disaster stricken Japan next week has instead organised a Uniting Church service in Bathurst on Wednesday 23 March for victims and survivors. Professor Sharynne McLeod, from CSU’s Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education, was to accompany a tour by Bathurst High School students to Bathurst’s sister city, Okuma, the site of the Fukushima Dai-ichi (No.1) nuclear power plant. “I am organising this service in response to my connection with the children of the world through my professional role with Charles Sturt University and my Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship,” Professor McLeod said. “Bathurst students visit the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant each year on their visit to Okuma, and this year’s group were scheduled to visit it in the coming weeks. As well as sending students to visit Okuma annually, Bathurst High School was to have 11 students from Okuma visit Bathurst this week, arriving 20 March. Of the 11 students to visit, seven have fathers who work at the power plant. It is a very tragic situation.” Ms Joyce Voerman, a staff member at the School of Teacher Education who recently returned from teaching English in Okuma for two years, will speak at the service with other people who have had a close association with Japan.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Professor Sharynne McLeod. The service will be held on Wednesday 23 March at 12.30pm-1.30pm at the Bathurst City Uniting Church, 140A William Street, Bathurst. The service is open to anyone in the Bathurst community, and will be attended by members of the Bathurst Regional Council, and schools in the city.
Print this story Harmony Day celebrates cultural diversity
21 Mar 2011
International students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will host an annual Harmony Day event in Albury-Wodonga to recognise and celebrate cultural diversity in Australia and the Border. Activities will include tasting food from around the globe (including an Aussie barbeque), as well as demonstrations of Tae Kwon Do, cooking and traditional Chinese dance, organised by the CSU International Club. The event will commence at 1pm today, Monday 21 March, outside the Gums Café on the University’s Albury-Wodonga campus at Thurgoona.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews and pictures. Print this story New MoU for health and welfare
17 Mar 2011
 A new agreement will be signed between Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn on Monday 21 March. The purpose of the agreement is to further develop the relationship between the higher education institution and the welfare agency over the next five years. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlines a number of ways the two organisations can foster future cooperation. These include initiatives such as adjunct academic appointments; reciprocal ethics committee arrangements; and expanding workplace learning opportunities for CSU students with Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn in areas such as social work, allied health and nursing. Course Director from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga Dr Bill Anscombe said, “As Charles Sturt University is one of the leading providers of social work, nursing and allied health education in Australia, the new broad ranging Memorandum of Understanding will give us more opportunities to ensure our students are ‘work ready’’. The MoU will be signed by the University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Ross Chambers and Bishop Stuart Robinson from the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn at 12midday on Monday 21 March. The ceremony will take place in the Chancellor’s Room in the Convention Centre, building 230, near car park 16, Jingellic Place at CSU in Wagga Wagga.
Media Note: Course Director Dr Bill Anscombe from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga is available for interview on 02 6933 2631.
Print this story US wildlife research experience applies in Australia
15 Mar 2011
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) student will present a seminar on Wednesday 16 March at CSU in Albury-Wodonga about how she is using her research experience in the USA to monitor threatened species in Australia. Last year, environmental sciences student, Ms Gaye Bourke, spent the final semester of her degree working as a fieldwork biologist with the Cascades Carnivore Connectivity Project in Washington state, evaluating how highways act as barriers to the movement of American black bears in the North Cascades Mountains. Ms Bourke lived in the tiny community of Newhalem (population 27) in the centre of the spectacular North Cascades National Park. “The three months were a steep learning curve, especially given the lack of large carnivore species in Australia. There were some magic moments, like our first close-up ‘bear encounter’ where we stood watching a female foraging for berries while her cub bounded playfully from rock to rock in front of us,” she said. “The techniques we used with the US black bears are applicable in Australia and they have already been used to monitor populations of threatened species here.”
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Ms Gaye Bourke, who is currently an Honours student with the University’s School of Environmental Sciences. Ms Bourke will present her experience at a seminar starting at 3pm on Wednesday 16 March at CSU.
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