Two students from CSU in Orange are preparing to see the sights of Paris, but they'll be doing it the hard way by joining the Paris Marathon in April.

CSU has announced it will open a second campus of its planned medical school in Wagga Wagga, pending Federal Government funding.

CSU wants its students to take on the world according to newly-appointed CSU Global manager, Dr Shevahn Telfser.

Dental services in regional NSW will get a boost this year as the first final-year CSU dentistry students undertake community placements before graduation.

A CSU academic has reassured Australians they don't have to worry they might be eating horse on their hamburgers, as investigations continue overseas into 'beef' shipments which tests revealed included up to 70 per cent horse meat.

Rural clinical schools designed to encourage medical students to take up rural practice have failed to increase the proportion of Australian medical graduates moving to work outside the major cities, according to CSU medical consultant Emeritus Professor John Dwyer.

CSU academics have collaborated with clinicians from Bathurst Base Hospital, surrounding health services and academics from Monash University to produce a child and family health nursing textbook for Australia and New Zealand.

A CSU climate expert believes health authorities will need to do more to minimise the impacts of heatwaves on our health services, especially if the recent trend of rising average temperatures and more hot days continues as projected.

Almost 500 graduands and guests will gather to celebrate the graduation of 114 students from Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange on Tuesday 11 December.