Archive
First CSU Ontario graduation
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003History will be made in Ontario, Canada on Friday 23 June at two formal graduation ceremonies for over 150 Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduates at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.
DE nursing an Australian first
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Four years ago Dubbo resident Pauline Smith had never thought she would complete the training she began nearly 20 years earlier and become a registered nurse.
Mitchell Link to benefit CSU in learning, teaching and research
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Sir Thomas Mitchell would surely approve of the Mitchell Link, a new high speed fibre optic link which will greatly benefit the Bathurst and Orange campuses of Charles Sturt University (CSU). For the first time, the regionally-based University campuses will connect into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN), which was established in 2002 to provide large bandwidth capabilities to the country’s universities.
Emergency management students will learn from Cyclone Yasi
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Every emergency crisis presents an opportunity for emergency managers, and the crisis communication response of the Queensland government to Cyclone Yasi will form an excellent case study for students at CSU.
Doctor shortage remains a key focus
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The Dean of the Faculty of Science at CSU, Professor Nick Klomp, called on the Federal Government to accelerate its consideration of CSU's proposal for a new rural medical school in light of findings by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare that health services are becoming less accessible for the majority of people living in rural and regional Australia.
Mine research investigates sustainable solution
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003What happens to the excavated waste rock at one of Australia’s significant mine sites when the mine closes? This topic isn’t being taken lightly by Newcrest Mining at Cadia Valley, 20 kilometres southwest of the city of Orange in NSW where PhD student in Charles Sturt University's (CSU) School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Mr Allan Adams is investigating a sustainable solution.
Healthy ten year track record for nutrition and dietetics
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003It could be described as CSU’s quiet achiever.
PM's proposed carbon tax - a slow compromise
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A CSU academic says the carbon tax proposal announced yesterday by The Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, Prime Minister of Australia, is a compromise that will be slow to provide the economy with the price incentives needed to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
Collaborative research helps diabetics
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A research project that has spanned eleven years, and across four regional cities, is giving hope to diabetes sufferers internationally.
Disability insurance highlights international commitment
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Australia should introduce a national disability insurance scheme as it supports the commitment the nation made when the then Federal government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability in July 2008, according to a CSU academic in health services.