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Text/object in new exhibition
04 Nov 2008
 Following previous successful exhibitions, staff at the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will present recent works in a show titled text/object. The exhibition will be opened by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administrative), Professor Lyn Gorman, on Friday 7 November at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. Show curator Dr Johannes Klabbers says this is a unique opportunity for the community to experience the wide-ranging practices and research of creative practitioners teaching at CSU. “All works in this exhibition are collaborative, Some participants have worked with family members or colleagues within the school, while others collaborated with national and international artists. The result is a very eclectic exhibition featuring the work of 28 participants.”
Media Note: The exhibition will open at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery at 6pm on Friday 7 November. It will run until 11 January 2009. The Wagga Wagga Art Gallery is at Civic Centre, corner Baylis and Morrow Streets, Wagga Wagga. For more information visit the show website. Print this story International honour for natural weed research
28 Oct 2008
 Before scientists from almost 40 countries, Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Emeritus Professor of Agriculture, Jim Pratley, was honoured for his significant contribution to the development of the science of allelopathy. The international award was presented to Professor Pratley during the fifth World Congress on Allelopathy in the USA in late September. The prestigious and competitive Molisch Award is presented every three years during the International Allelopathy Society’s conference to recognise research excellence and career contributions to the field of allelopathy, which is the science of using a plant’s natural defense system to beat weed infestation. Professor Pratley is a staff member at the E H Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation in Wagga Wagga, a collaborative alliance between CSU and the NSW Department of Primary Industries, and was a member of the recent conference’s organising committee and a past vice-president of the International Allelopathy Society. Professor Pratley is continuing his research into natural herbicides and weed management.
Media Note: Professor Jim Pratley is based at the E H Graham Centre in Wagga Wagga and is available for interview. 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 Nuclear oncology for inland Australia
28 Oct 2008
The future direction of nuclear oncology in rural and regional Australia is on the agenda of a conference being held at Charles Sturt University (CSU) at Wagga Wagga on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 November. “The use of nuclear medicine in diagnosing cancer plays a crucial role in improving patient management,” said CSU senior lecturer and conference organiser Dr Geoff Currie.”There is a significant inequity in this area between rural and metropolitan people and this conference plays an important role in developing rural strategies for today and for the future.” The conference has attracted more than 100 delegates, including oncologists and radiotherapists as well as nuclear medicine students from CSU and other institutions. "The NSW Cancer Council supports important events such as this conference as part of its role to ensure equity of access for cancer patients in rural and regional NSW,” said Mr John Knight from the Cancer Council in Wagga Wagga. Associate Professor Dianne O'Connell from the NSW Cancer Council will speak on 'Patterns of cancer care studies in NSW’.
Media Note: The 5th Annual CE Workshop is organised by CSU, the Rural Alliance in Nuclear Scintigraphy, and the ACT Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM). Guest speakers include Associate Professor Dianne O’Connell, Dr Rob Ware, from the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre, and Mr Larry Pang from the University of California, Los Angeles. The conference will be held from 9.45am Saturday 1 November to 12.30pm Sunday 1 November, at the Wal Fife Theatre, building 14, near car park 4, Tooma Way, CSU, Wagga Wagga. Print this story World safflower experts to meet in Wagga
28 Oct 2008
 The less commonly known oilseed crop, safflower, will be in the spotlight when world experts descend on Wagga Wagga for the 7th International Safflower Conference to be held from Monday 3 to Thursday 6 November. Conference convenor Ms Sue Knights said safflower offers enormous potential in drought conditions and the conference will feature a visit to trial crops at Coleambally to demonstrate its suitability to the Riverina. “The conference is themed ’Safflower: unexploited potential and world adaptability’ and will encompass growers, marketers and researchers as an opportunity to undertake critical industry development on this underutilized crop,” she said. Hosted by the Australian Oilseeds Federation, the program features speakers from India, USA, Spain and the Charles Sturt University EH Graham Centre’s Dr Rod Mailer who will speak on ‘Quality evaluation of safflower cultivars’.
Media Note: The conference will run from Monday 3 to Thursday 6 November. A field trip will be held on Monday 3 November to the Murrumbidgee Demonstration Farm at Coleambally. The remainder of the conference will be held at the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre on Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga campus from 8.30am - 4.30pm. Dr Rod Mailer will speak on Tuesday 4 November from 3.50pm - 4.10pm. For more information see the conference website. Contact Ms Sue Knights on 0429 411 971 to arrange interviews. Print this story CSU and classmates honour former student
28 Oct 2008
 The ’rich heritage’ left for Charles Sturt University (CSU) by the first students enrolled in the Wagga Wagga Agricultural College in 1949 was acknowledged during a ceremony held at CSU at Wagga Wagga on Friday 24 October. Several of the inaugural students, known as ‘the 49ers’ gathered to honour their former classmate, the late Mr John Bowen. The University has honoured Mr Bowen by naming a student accommodation building John Bowen Hall. The 1912 building was used by the first group of students to attend the Wagga Wagga Agricultural College in 1949. Mr Bowen’s widow, Mrs June Bowen, and their son, Mr Ken Bowen, met with former agricultural students at the naming ceremony. Mr Bowen told the audience that his father, who lived on the NSW Central Coast, kept coming back to Wagga Wagga and “loved the college and the city”. Read more here.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews. The Wagga Wagga Agricultural College is a predecessor institution of Charles Sturt University. Print this story New Professor of Dentistry brings international experience
21 Oct 2008
Media Note: Contact CSU Media for interviews with Professor David Wilson. Print this story Raising the plight of Congo
21 Oct 2008
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) nursing and midwifery lecturer will renew her efforts to highlight the plight of women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during International Congo Week from Sunday 19 October. Dr Elaine Dietsch from the CSU School of Nursing and Midwifery in Wagga Wagga, will speak at a number of engagements in Wagga Wagga and Leeton during the week. She will discuss her experiences of her annual visits to the war-torn African nation. In a study released in January 2008, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) reported war, disease and malnutrition are killing 45 000 Congolese every month with 5.4 million people dying since 1998. It further declared the 1998-2003 war and its aftermath had caused more deaths than any other conflict since World War II. Read about Dr Dietsch's last visit to the DRC in May 2008 here.
Media Note: Dr Elaine Dietsch is available for interview during International Congo Week. Contact CSU Media. Dr Dietsch will speak at Centrecare in Tarcutta St, Wagga Wagga, from 3.30pm on Wednesday 22 October and at the Australian Breastfeeding Association, Banool Place, Wagga Wagga, from 8pm Wednesday 22 October. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Leeton Central, Dr Dietsch will address numerous primary and secondary schools in the Leeton area on Thursday 23 October and Friday 24 October. The CSU academic will also be guest speaker at a Rotary fund-raising dinner at the Stan Axtill Centre, Leeton, from 7pm Friday 24 October. Print this story Heart Foundation to address dietitians
21 Oct 2008
Dietitians working in Wagga Wagga and the surrounding district, as well as final year Charles Sturt University (CSU) nutrition and dietetic students, will gather at CSU on Tuesday 28 October to hear from Ms Barbara Eden, dietitian with the Heart Foundation in NSW. Ms Eden will address local dietitians working in the public and private sectors about the Heart Foundation’s new catering recommendations as well as the health impact of other Heart Foundation initiatives. Based at the School of Dentistry and Health Sciences in Wagga Wagga, CSU’s Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Dietetics) is the first of its kind offered outside a metropolitan area in Australia.
Media Note: Ms Barbara Eden will address third year CSU students from 9am Tuesday 28 October in the Convention Centre, CSU Wagga Wagga. She will address local dietitians at the same venue from 1.30pm. For interviews with Ms Eden, contact Heart Foundation NSW Media and Communications Manager, Ms Kerry Kalcher on 02 9219 2433 or 0401 672 12 Print this story Do kids hate maths?
21 Oct 2008
The deep aversion some people feel towards mathematics will be among the topics to be discussed at a public forum in Wagga Wagga on Wednesday 29 October. The final Edversations Professional Forum for 2009 will pose the question, do kids hate maths? A panel from Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Education in Wagga Wagga, local schools and support agencies will participate in the forum. The current ideas about maths and controversies in mathematics education will also be on the agenda. The Edversations Professional Forum series is an initiative of CSU and Wagga Wagga City Council. CSU wine and cheese will be served after the forum.
Media Note: The forum will be held from 6pm Wednesday 29 October in the Council meeting room, Civic Centre, Baylis St, Wagga Wagga. Senior lecturer with the CSU School of Education in Wagga Wagga, Dr Andrew Wallace is available for interview. Contact CSU Media. Print this story |
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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 