A CSU lecturer worked as part of the team that created the sound track for director Baz Luhrmann's big budget epic motion picture Australia, starring Australian actors Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and David Wenham.

ree graduation ceremonies to be staged by CSU will return to central Albury over two days from next Thursday morning, 13 December.

A landmark partnership between CSU and Australian distributor, Henry Schein Halas, will ensure that students of the University's new dentistry and oral health courses will gain their dental training experience in a fully digital clinical and preclinical environment that offers the most advanced dental equipment of any education facility in Australia.

Amid the success of the teacher education program at Charles Sturt University in Ontario, the first Head of the new School in the Canadian province has recently taken up his position.

Two graduates from CSU's advertising degree have been honoured at the 2008 Media Federation of Australia Awards in October, demonstrating the value of links between leading Australian advertising agencies and CSU's School of Communication, said Head of the School, Associate Professor Rod McCulloch.

An innovative new information technology course at CSU, which has been developed with a range of industry partners to keep pace with industry needs, will be officially launched at the CSU Bathurst Campus on Friday 7 November by the Hon. Phillip Costa, MP, NSW Minister for Water, Rural Affairs and Regional Development.

Charles Sturt University's plans for a new dental clinic at Dubbo received a boost yesterday with the announcement by Mr John Della Bosca, MP, NSW Minister for Health, of a $4.1 million funding package for the project.

Research projects focussed on the environment and education have attracted funding in the latest round of projects announced in the federal Government's National Competitive Grants Program.

Disadvantaged Indigenous and rural students living in remote Australian settlements will benefit from a three year research project led by Charles Sturt University and Griffith University that uses new thinking in mathematical education and increases access to current technology.