The CSU on campus student advertising agency, Kajulu Communications, has won the finals of the International Advertising Association's National 'Big Idea' Advertising competition on Monday 9 November for the fifth time in seven years.

CSU has secured the rights to host the annual RoboCup Junior competition for schools across central west NSW starting in June 2010 through to 2012.

The Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, AC, will attend an historic signing of an agreement which will increase exposure to Islamic issues among CSU students and staff.

Around 150 academic staff at CSU will have their leadership in tertiary learning and teaching on show this week when they meet for the CSUED 2009 conference at CSU at Albury-Wodonga.

Two academics at CSU will have distinctive roles at the Australian Association For Research In Education 2009 International Education Research Conference in Canberra from Sunday 29 November to Thursday 3 December.

Research on the weed serrated tussock, the invading ants on Fraser Island in Queensland, and the larvae of our native fish feature in the latest issue of Connections, the quarterly newsletter of CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society.

The most prestigious award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Leyton Memorial Medal, has been awarded to a CSU academic in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Bathurst at a presentation dinner in Melbourne on Friday 27 November.

The humanitarian work in China of Australian Red Cross worker and CSU graduate Ms Kara Jenkinson has been recognised in the inaugural Australia China Alumni Awards 2009.

Have you heard the one about gold fish having only a three second memory?