Two graduates from CSU's advertising degree have been honoured at the 2008 Media Federation of Australia Awards in October, demonstrating the value of links between leading Australian advertising agencies and CSU's School of Communication, said Head of the School, Associate Professor Rod McCulloch.

Journalism students at CSU will produce a daily newspaper for the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association annual conference – PANPA '08 – on Queensland's Gold Coast from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 September.

If media coverage of the XXIX Olympiad at Beijing, China, has prompted high school students to consider a career in the global media industry, they can discover how to launch their career at CSU communication courses information day - iDay08 - at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum on Saturday 30 August.

A group of CSU students are bound for the Beijing Olympics in August to participate in the broadcast of the international event around the globe.

Journalism students at CSU have won scholarships from the national Copyright Agency Limited to help them to gain work experience with media organisations overseas.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) is today mourning the loss of Mr Ian Nicol, AM, KSJ, director and Deputy Chair of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACC&C), a research centre linked to the School of Theology on CSU's Canberra Campus.

CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter has announced the appointment of Professor Carmen Moran as Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and as Professor of Psychology at CSU.

A strong advocate for Australian women, particularly those living and working in rural and remote areas, will take her voice for women’s rights and issues to the international stage in 2008.

Professor Anthony Cahalan, the current Dean of the Faculty of Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada's largest university of art and design, has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University (CSU).