The establishment of a drought monitoring system in Australia using remote sensing tools is one project catching the attention of the new head of the International Centre of WATER for Food Security at CSU.

A new health degree to be introduced by Charles Sturt University in 2009 will help address some of the gaps in health services in inland Australia.

CSU lecturer Dr Stephen Bird helped the Indonesian national team win medals at the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, China, shared a bus ride with Jamaican gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt, met the entire US Olympic basketball team, and narrowly missed catching the football David Beckham kicked into the crowd at the closing ceremony.

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.

When nature didn't match the academic sessions for students of botany and ecology at CSU, one academic looked for a solution and came up with an innovative teaching method.

While modern athletes seem to be a marvel of evolution, a CSU academic questions whether the remarkable stamina that they display is a product of modern training techniques and a deep understanding of human and animal physiology or 'mind over matter'.

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.

As some of the world’s best athletes embark on elite competition at the 2008 Olympics and the world’s media focuses on Beijing, CSU has commentators available on various aspects of the international event.

Addressing the severe skills shortages in Australia’s information technology (IT) industry, Charles Sturt University announced a new degree on Tuesday 29 July that will see students enter the IT workforce in 12 months instead of the usual three or four years.