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Where are the children?
04 Nov 2008
How children are affected by an individual’s mental illness, a topic rarely considered in the treatment of mental illness, will be discussed at a public lecture to be given by Dr Darryl Maybery from Charles Sturt University (CSU) on Wednesday 5 November in Albury. Titled Parental Mental Illness – Where Are the Children?, the presentation will outline the prevalence and level of risk for children as well as the key points of intervention for children, parents, the family, workers and society for families facing mental illness and some approaches for assisting these children and families. “The ultimate aim of our research at CSU is early intervention and prevention of mental illness in families so that this impact is minimised,” said Dr Maybery, who is Associate Director for the CSU Centre for Inland Health and a senior lecturer with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, based in Wagga Wagga. The lecture will commence at 6pm in the Nowik Lecture Theatre, Guinea St, Albury.
Media Note: For interviews with Dr Maybery, contact CSU Media. Print this story Award for promoting affinity in Australian society
28 Oct 2008
 A national award promoting religious harmony and acceptance within Australian society has been bestowed on Charles Sturt University (CSU) lecturer in theology, Associate Professor Clive Pearson. The principal of the United Theological College (UTC) in Sydney, within the CSU School of Theology, received an Australian Affinity Award in September. The award recognised Professor Pearson’s significant contributions in the study of religion, interfaith and intercultural dialogue, and the ‘facilitating' by CSU in this dialogue. Associate Professor Pearson was particularly recognised for his work on the public theology of issues of diversity in Sydney, including analysis of the riots in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla in December 2005. “The United Theological College has been working with Affinity and Sydney’s Islamic community firstly out of concern for the neighbour, for the stranger in our midst and a concern for social cohesion,” said Associate Professor Pearson. “We have attended and presented at each other's conferences because we believe that it is important for a Christian theology to be done these days in the presence of the religious other as well as the secular.”
Media Note: Associate Professor Clive Pearson is on study leave at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA until 31 December. He is one of 12 international scholars selected to be a member of the prestigious Center of Theological Inquiry. He is completing a book on what is a public theology, with reference to Australia. Associate Professor Pearson and fellow UTC lecturer, the Reverend Dr William Emilsen, recently presented papers to the Forum on Public Policy at Oxford University, UK. Associate Professor Pearson’s paper focused on a Christian theological response to the Cronulla riots in dialogue with a range of other sociological, media and criminology analyses. Dr Emilsen's address focussed on religion and teenage suicide bombers. Print this story Goulburn campus joins fibre optic highway
28 Oct 2008
Charles Sturt University (CSU) at Goulburn has taken a huge stride in developing its infrastructure at the NSW Police Academy by laying five kilometres of fibre optic cable to connect the campus to the main Sydney-Melbourne fibre optic trunk. The cable, which cost $600 000 to install, now provides a network connection of one Gigabyte per second, which is more than 100 times greater capacity than the technology it replaced. As CSU owns the cable, it will be able to increase the capacity in the future at a reasonable cost.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media for interviews. Print this story Speech pathologists celebrate and farewell
21 Oct 2008
The annual conference held by final-year speech pathology students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will be a celebration and a farewell. The School of Community Health is celebrating the speech pathology course’s tenth anniversary while also saying farewell to Associate Professor Lindy Mcallister, its founding academic. Professor Mcallister joined CSU in 1997 to set up the speech pathology course, which has educated professionals particularly for practice in inland Australia. Professor Mcallister is taking up the position of deputy dean of medicine and health sciences at the University of Queensland. Guest speakers at the conference include Professor David Battersby, who was Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Health Studies and Head of the University’s Albury-Wodonga and Dubbo Campuses before becoming Vice-Chancellor of University of Ballarat, and Ms Claire Salter, a practicing speech pathologist from Katherine in the Northern Territory. This year’s conference, to run from Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 October, will address speech and language problems in older and younger people.
Media Note: For interviews, contact CSU Media. Print this story New Professor of Dentistry brings international experience
21 Oct 2008
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21 Oct 2008
Promoting a positive transition for children into school is the goal of teachers from New Zealand (NZ) who will visit Charles Sturt University (CSU) and the Border region next week. CSU’s Murray School of Education will host the visit by preschool and early school teachers from Taumarunui to schools around Albury-Wodonga. Supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, the visit is part of a larger project that involves five primary schools, one secondary school and three early childhood centres. The project seeks to improve the experiences and achievements of Maori students. The changes already achieved by the project members will be shared with Australian teachers at a Transition Forum involving Wodonga schools on Wednesday 22 October. On Thursday 23 October, the NZ teachers will visit schools and early childhood settings in Wodonga and Albury to hear about transition programs and practices. The visit is coordinated by Professor Sue Dockett, who is also collaborating with NZ’s University of Waikato on the project.
Media Note: For interviews with Professor Sue Dockett, contact CSU Media. Print this story Science in the Bush in Albury
21 Oct 2008
 School students from the Border region will have a science excursion with a twist next week when the ‘Science in the Bush’ event, hosted by Charles Sturt University (CSU), comes to Albury-Wodonga. Dean of the Faculty of Science at CSU, Professor Nick Klomp, said the two-day expo provides primary and secondary school students with an opportunity to engage with science, engineering, technology and innovation first-hand. The event, to be held on Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 October in the Albury Convention and Performing Arts Centre, will be officially opened by Assistant Director of the Australian Museum, Ms Janet Carding, followed by an address by Professor Klomp, who is also a regular science commentator on ABC radio around Australia. Science in the Bush is part of the Science in the City Project run by the Australian Museum with Executive Partner, the University of Sydney. The program is supported by the Australian Government through the Science Connections Programme of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
Media Note: For interviews with Professor Klomp, contact CSU Media. More information on ‘Science in the Bush’ is available here. Print this story Mammography images to improve
21 Oct 2008
A new academic at Charles Sturt University (CSU), Mrs Kelly Spuur, is passionate about mammography and is close to completing a PhD which aims to improve the quality of clinical breast images. A mammographer is a radiographer trained in breast imaging. Mrs Spuur believes her field is gaining popularity as an occupation, with mammographers in high demand around the world. After 16 years at Riverina Medical Imaging and BreastScreen in Wagga Wagga, she moved to CSU earlier this year. Mrs Spuur convenes a biennial mammographers conference in Wagga Wagga which this year attracted 130 specialists from across Australia. Her PhD examines the quality and evaluation of breast images in a clinical setting with the goal of developing a computer program to enhance the digital images. “This program will improve image quality and the ability of mammographers to screen using established quantitative imaging criteria,” she said. Mrs Spuur also teaches undergraduate students at the School of Dentistry and Health Sciences in subjects about radiological equipment and x-ray production.
Media Note: For interviews contact CSU Media. Print this story HSC students search online for answers
20 Oct 2008
.jpg) For NSW senior high school students, the Higher School Certificate is the ultimate challenge and when competing against thousands of other students for limited university places, the more resources they can access the better. In the past, the Internet has not been seen as a consistently credible source of information for materials, but now teachers are encouraging students to get extra help online. In 2007, the Charles Sturt University (CSU) hosted website NSW HSC Online delivered 13 million pages to users, offering information to students, teachers and parents, with 2008 figures indicating even higher access, despite slightly fewer HSC enrolments. CSU lecturer and NSW HSC Online project coordinator Mr Bob Dengate believes that students and teachers benefit greatly from the site. "With material for 48 HSC subjects, supplemented by advice on study strategies and the availability of past examination papers and markers' comments, figures for this month are expected to approach two million pages."
Media Note: For interviews contact CSU Media. Print this story A healthy view for the future
14 Oct 2008
Charles Sturt University (CSU) allied health students will meet with employers in the health sector in Albury on Thursday 16 October to consider their futures. Potential employers have been invited by CSU to promote positions and careers to the final year students before they finish their degrees. This year’s annual CSU Job Market, now in its sixth year, will have an international flavour as a group of health employer representatives from Singapore will also attend the market. The expo will include prospective employers for speech pathologists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists. “There is always a buzz in the room at this expo. As they face the end of their courses, the students are considering their options and this expo brings many of these options under one roof,” said Dr Megan Smith, physiotherapy course coordinator at CSU. Research shows that between 2002 and 2007, up to 60 per cent of graduates from CSU started their careers in regional, rural and remote Australia.
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As the start of the Charles Sturt University (CSU) dental and oral health courses approach in February 2009, the University has added the international experience of Professor David Wilson to its teaching staff. Professor Wilson is a professor in dentistry and health science (oral and maxillofacial pathology). He has joined CSU at Orange from the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Professor Wilson has also worked in Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and has about 30 years undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience in oral pathology. He maintains ongoing clinical practice and research into specialist diagnostic oral histopathology. His research interests include oral cancer, oral diseases and forensic odontology. The new courses offered through the CSU 