The Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACCC) has announced the appointment of two eminent Australians to the Board of the ACCC. They are Lieutenant General (Retd) John Sanderson AC, and the newly installed Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Mark Coleridge.

Hunter Valley winemaker and NSW wine industry award winner Phil Ryan described studying at Charles Sturt University in the late 1970s as an exciting period in the evolution of the Australian wine industry.

Charles Sturt University and Victoria Police have been recognised with a joint award from the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers at its annual conference in Brisbane in October.

More CSU journalism students will be heading overseas thanks to a scholarship program funded by the Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) Cultural Fund.

An Agreement which could see significant numbers of European students studying at Charles Sturt University (CSU) by 2012 has been signed with the European Study Centre in Bretten (ESCB), Germany.

Would a human baby brought up in space look a lot like ET? “Possibly,” says Dr Graeme Wren Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Science & Technology, Charles Sturt University (CSU), Wagga Wagga. Dr Wren will present the public lecture Space Medicine: Physiological Adaptation to Microgravity on Wednesday 25 October 2006 at 6.00pm at the Dubbo Campus of CSU.

Earlier this month, the OECD released a report which shows that Australia spends less on early childhood education than any other nation in the industrialised world. It prompted calls from both sides of federal politics for a national approach to early childhood education. Fran Press, Charles Sturt University senior lecturer in early childhood education, says “What we have at the moment is a dog’s breakfast".

"I believe it is a worse health problem than tobacco," says Professor Patrick Ball, from Charles Sturt University’s School of Biomedical Sciences, "for the first time in human history, Type 2 Diabetes is more common than Type 1."

Professor Don Thomson from Charles Sturt University’s School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies is a Registered Psychologist and a Barrister-at-law. He was recently awarded the Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Forensic Psychologists inaugural distinguished contributions award. He says the legal system is not loaded against the victim as often claimed. In fact, in trials where there are mulitple defendants, “research shows you are more likely to be convicted with other co-defenders than if you are tried by yourself”.