A first-year paramedic student at CSU has put her books aside temporarily as her training intensifies for the K4 500 metre kayaking event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Paramedics have been awarded the eighth consecutive Readers Digest Australia's Most Trusted Profession Award for 2012, and a CSU student was one of three paramedics to receive the award on behalf of the profession at a ceremony in Sydney on Thursday 26 July.

A CSU human movement studies student has been awarded a prestigious scholarship from the National Strength and Conditioning Association in the United States, and is the first Australian and only non-American to do so.

Two CSU theatre/media students gained invaluable professional experience when they were recently given the opportunity to stage manage a production at a leading Sydney theatre company.

CSU is giving prospective first-year students a chance to win $20 000 towards the cost of their living, study and accommodation expenses in the 'You + CSU' competition.

CSU advertising students have continued their decade-long dominance of the annual national inter-university student marketing communications competition with a win by the Kajulu Red team.

The graduation of 17 Bachelor of Nursing students from CSU in Dubbo will give local health services a shot in the arm as every student has taken up work in the region.

Senior representatives from CSU and GOTAFE will meet in Wangaratta on Tuesday 20 November to sign an agreement between the institutions to take higher learning in North East Victoria into the 21st century.

The transition from TAFE to university study has been made easier with the launch of a new Study Link subject from Charles Sturt University (CSU).