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Council visit to vet facilities
08 Sep 2008
 The Veterinary Clinical Centre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will play host to senior staff from the Wagga Wagga City Council on Tuesday 9 September. Council's new Director of Environmental and Community Services, Mrs Janice Summerhayes, acting Director of Planning, Mr Mark Gardiner and acting Manager Natural Environment and Regulatory, Mr Greg Minehan will inspect the new facilities for the CSU veterinary science program from 8.30am. Fourth year veterinary science students are the first CSU students to benefit from the clinic which was officially opened in July. The clinic includes modern surgical facilities for large and small animals, diagnostic imaging and reproduction services for horses. In agreement with Wagga Wagga City Council, fourth year students conduct health checks and spey dogs and cats from the Council’s Glenfield Road Animal Shelter. New homes are then found for the animals. The visit to the Veterinary Clinical Centre will be hosted by the Head of the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Professor Kym Abbott. Read more about the clinic here.
Media Note: The Veterinary Clinical Centre is located on Agriculture Avenue near the Equine Centre, CSU, Wagga Wagga.
Print this story Back from Beijing
02 Sep 2008
 Four television production students and an acting student from Charles Sturt University (CSU) have returned to CSU’s Wagga Wagga Campus on the weekend after testing their television production skills at the world’s biggest sporting event for four weeks at the Beijing Olympics. The students were employed as camera operators and production support staff on the Olympic Green in the Chinese capital. The third year students have hailed their time at the Olympic Games as a wonderful opportunity as they prepare to embark on their careers at the end of the year. “We loved going into work each day during the Olympics,” said television production student Ms Katrina Beesley. “The grounding that we had from CSU lecturers gave us the professionalism we needed to work at the international event and that was reaffirmed by our employers. Hopefully, Beijing will be the first of many Olympics Games that we get to work on." The CSU School of Visual and Performing Arts, educates television production students for entry to the television industry.
Media Note: For interviews, contact CSU Media. Print this story A healthy community
02 Sep 2008
 Director of Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Centre for Inland Health, Dr Rod Pope, will participate in the annual community forum to be held this week by the Greater Southern Area Health Service (GSAHS). The forum, hosted by the Area Health Advisory Council, will be held at the Gemini Motor Inn in Griffith’s Banna Avenue from 10am to 12.30pm on Wednesday 3 September. Dr Pope will address the forum from 10.40am on the topic, ‘What does health mean to the community?’ The Centre for Inland Health was established in 2007, and its mission is to play a leading role in improving the health and longevity of the people of inland Australia. It brings together health educators, researchers, service providers and local communities to identify, examine and solve priority health concerns of inland communities.
Media Note: For an interview with the Director of the Centre for Inland Health, Dr Rod Pope contact CSU Media. Print this story Donation to work in the Congo
02 Sep 2008
 Charles Sturt University (CSU) staff have given a helping hand to an academic’s work for women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr Elaine Dietsch, a lecturer at the CSU School of Midwifery and Nursing in Wagga Wagga, visits the troubled African country each year to use her nursing and midwifery skills to aid the women and children plagued by militias, rebels and malnutrition. Educational designers in the University’s Centre for Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Wagga Wagga were recently awarded $150 in the Wagga Mutual Credit Union Safety Awareness Program. The 12-member team has donated its prize money plus another $20 to support Dr Dietsch’s work in the DRC. “The money will hopefully make a difference to the women of the village Luganda in DRC,” said CSU educational designer Ms Milena Dunn. “These women carry huge loads of up to 50 kilograms of firewood from the village, 18 kilometres to the town of Bukavu. They are paid 30 cents a load and are at constant risk from militia groups and rebels,” said Dr Dietsch. “The donation will be used to establish projects for a small community of women to ensure an alternative means of sustainable employment.”
Media Note: The Wagga Mutual Credit Union Safety Awareness Program recognises individuals or teams who have made a significant contribution to the promotion of the safety culture at CSU’s Wagga Wagga Campus. Read more about Dr Dietsch’s work in the DRC here.
Listen to Dr Dietsch talk about where the donated money will be used in the DRC.
Print this story Research in information literacy
02 Sep 2008
 The Centre for Information Studies at Charles Sturt University (CSU) has announced its newest publication, Exploring Methods in Information Literacy Research, which provides an overview of approaches to help researchers and professionals to undertake research in information literacy. The book, edited by CSU School of Information Studies lecturers Ms Suzanne Lipu, Dr Anne Lloyd and Dr Kirsty Williamson, opens with an overview of research by Dr Williamson. Subsequent chapters explore the key aspects of a specific research method and explain how it may be applied in practice. The Centre for Information Studies aims to support research, publications and continuing professional development in library and information science, teacher librarianship and Australian literature for young people.
Media Note: For interviews, contact CSU Media. The Centre is part of the School of Information Studies, based in Wagga Wagga, conducts teaching and research in library and information management and teacher librarianship. Print this story New wheels to boost police recruitment
26 Aug 2008
 Charles Sturt University (CSU) is making recruiting potential officers from all sectors of the community to the NSW Police Force (NSWPF) a little easier with the donation of a high profile vehicle. The eye-catching Holden Rodeo will be used by the NSWPF Recruitment Branch as a mobile advertising tool. It will be formally presented to NSWPF by CSU Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ross Chambers, during a ceremony to swear in the latest probationary constables at the NSW Police College in Goulburn on Friday 29 August. CSU, together with NSWPF, delivers the Associate Degree in Policing Practice, which is the recruit training program for people wanting to join the NSW Police Force. The vehicle will be driven state-wide for career markets, expos and displays. “CSU is delighted to deliver this vehicle to the NSWPF as a symbol of our long-standing and important relationship to educate and train police officers for NSW,” said Professor Chambers. General Manager of NSWPF Recruitment Branch, Inspector Tony Malone, said they wanted a vehicle that would turn heads. “We want to draw attention to NSWPF Recruitment and to our contact details. The Rodeo is proving to be a great marketing tool."
Media Note: The vehicle is due to be handed over to NSW Police Recruitment at approximately 1.30pm during the Attestation Parade at NSW Police College, McDermott Drive, Goulburn. Print this story Book collection for Nepal
26 Aug 2008
 A call has gone out for the donation of books to establish a social work and social development library in Nepal ahead of an international conference there later this year. The International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD) will hold its Asia-Pacific branch conference in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, in November. “We would like practitioners, academics and students to donate one recent and relevant social work, social development or related text,” said ICSD Asia-Pacific president and Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Associate Professor Manohar Pawar.“As part of the Consortium’s commitment to development, education, research and practice in the region, the book project aims to improve access to books for those studying or working in social work and social development. Nepal is one of the least developed land-locked countries in the world. It has three schools of social work and their students would appreciate some concrete assistance.” For further information about the book project contact CSU lecturer Dr Lynelle Osburn losburn@csu.edu.au or Professor Pawar. mpawar@csu.edu.au
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Associate Professor Manohar Pawar about the conference and the book project in Nepal. The ICSD Asia-Pacific biannual conference will be held from Tuesday 25 November to Friday 28 November and is hosted by the Kadambari Memorial College of Science and Management in Kathmandu. The conference is entitled ‘Social Development and Transition: Paths for Global local Partnerships’. Print this story CSU students battling the bulge
26 Aug 2008
Charles Sturt University (CSU) students are making the battle against obesity and eating disorders personal with a cooking competition to show healthy eating can be cheap as well as nutritious, quick, tasty and good looking. Three student groups – the Nutrition and Dietetics (or Nut) Club, the Social Workers Club and the Health Action Team – are gathering favourite student recipes for a recipe book, with the top 12 recipes entered into a cook-off competition to be held in October on the University’s Wagga Wagga Campus. A panel of local judges will name the winner of a $150 voucher for groceries. President of the Nut Club, Mr Kingsley Vance, hopes that initiatives like this will help the communities within CSU campuses – Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga – to improve their food choices. “University students are often at risk of not eating a nutritious diet, so our competition is all about raising awareness of good nutrition in all our communities,” he said.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media for interviews. Entries in the competition close on Friday 12 September and the cook-off will be held on Tuesday 14 October. Print this story Is mediation a profession?
26 Aug 2008
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic has called on the mediation community to consider that it now deserves the title of ‘a profession’. Associate Professor Anne Ardagh addressed the question ‘Is Mediation now a Profession?’ during her recent address to a dinner in Canberra to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Conflict Resolution Service (CRS) in the ACT. “Even though there is no one recognised path to becoming a mediator, mediators are becoming more educated through university and TAFE qualifications, and perhaps on quality assurance grounds the mediation community should embrace the idea that it now deserves the status of a profession,” said Professor Ardagh. The CSU academic believes mediation is at a stage that perhaps psychology or social work or counselling was at not so long ago.
Media Note: Associate Professor Ardagh is the coordinator of CSU’s Dispute Resolution Program through the University’s School of Commerce in Wagga Wagga. She is an accredited and experienced mediator who has supervised a panel of mediators for the Community Justice Centre in Wagga Wagga. She oversaw the pilot program for Community Youth Conferencing in Wagga Wagga from 1996 to 1998, and is also on panels for the Legal Aid Commission's Family Law Conferencing Program and the NSW Health Conciliation Registry. To arrange an interview, contact CSU Media. Print this story Almost foot in mouth
26 Aug 2008
 The surgical skills of staff at the Veterinary Clinical Centre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will come to the fore today Tuesday 26 August when a hoof is removed from the head of a three week old calf. The animal will be operated on by the Centre Director Associate Professor Bryan Hilbert from 1.30pm. The Veterinary Clinical Centre on CSU's Wagga Wagga Campus was officially opened last month when its experienced clinicians were praised for their vital role in producing well rounded professionals for inland Australia. As Associate Professor of Equine Medicine and Surgery at CSU, Professor Hilbert heads the team overseeing modern surgical facilities for large and small animals, diagnostic imaging and reproduction services for horses. Fourth year veterinary science students are first CSU students to benefit from the Veterinary Clinical Centre.
Media Note: For further information, contact CSU Media
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