Graduates from across NSW and around Australia and overseas will gather in Albury for two days to celebrate their academic achievements during Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) graduation ceremonies this week.
Nearly 550 graduates will receive their undergraduate and postgraduate awards from the faculties of Arts, Business, Education and Science in three ceremonies, on Wednesday 23 April and Thursday 24 April at the Albury Convention and Performing Arts Centre, Swift St, Albury.
Graduation stories include:
- The Faculty of Science’s Schools of Community Health and Nursing & Midwifery will celebrate the achievements of 176 graduates from courses, including nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry and speech pathology. The ceremony includes the awarding of the first two research doctorates from the School of Community Health, as well as 11 other awards for academic excellence.
- Graduate occupational therapist (OT) and disability advocate, Ms Kathryn Torney had at least one good reason to choose her career path - her brother and sister have disabilities. Ms Torney is particularly interested in disability rights in the workplace and has secured a job with an employment agency, convincing them that they need an OT to develop the employment prospects of people with disabilities.
- Faculty of Science’s School of Environmental Science and Faculty of Education’s Murray School of Education will celebrate the achievements of 182 graduates from courses, including adventure ecotourism, early childhood education, environmental sciences, middle school teaching, and parks, recreation and heritage. The ceremony includes the award of four doctorates of philosophy (PhD), the highest academic research awards offered by a university to its students. Ten other academic awards will also be presented.
- The first middle school teachers, who started in 2003, will graduate from the Murray School of Education in this ceremony. One graduate is Sean Walker, who originally hailed from Deniliquin in the Riverina region of NSW and subsequently returned to work in the local high school. Mr Walker, who received a Teacher NSW scholarship, will give the graduates’ vote of thanks at the graduation ceremony.
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Kim Alexander will graduate with her doctorate in environmental science, based on her research into how Laotian farmers can introduce better ways of feeding their cattle. Dr Alexander now works as a social scientist with the Australian Research Centre for Water in Society at CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra.
- PhD graduate Ms Jessica MacGregor studied the effects of flooding, land clearing and cattle grazing on the microbial plants and animals of the floodplains. She developed new methods for looking at where the limited amount of environmental water in controlled rivers would best benefit the floodplain and maintain productivity.
Thursday 10 April, 2.30pm:
- Around 224 graduates from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Business’s School of Business and Information Technology will receive their awards from the University, including 13 academic prizes for excellence. They will graduate from degree courses as accounting, industrial relations, information technology and marketing.
- Ms Pauline Lim Ai Sim, from Singapore, will attend the ceremony to graduate with CSU’s Bachelor of Business (Insurance).
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