CSU Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Andrew Vann today welcomed the support of the federal Senate’s Community Affairs References Committee for CSU’s planned medical school to be based in rural Australia.

Delegates at the Nationals' Federal Conference carried a motion yesterday, Sunday 16 September, supporting Charles Sturt University's proposal to establish a new medical school to address chronic shortages of doctors in rural and regional Australia.

Charles Sturt and La Trobe Universities today welcomed the Federal National Party's recommitment to the Murray-Darling Medical School (MDMS) at the National's Federal Council meeting held in Canberra on the weekend.

The CSU School of Nursing and Midwifery at Orange is the first to receive state-of-the-art facilities and equipment at the new Nursing Experiential Learning Centre which opens on Friday 13 November.

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.

Charles Sturt University will this month sign an innovative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost educational opportunities and participation levels amongst Aboriginal Australians, improve health outcomes as well as spearhead important research.

CSU has welcomed the announcement by the Federal government of $1.6 million in funding to establish a major Regional Inter-Professional Clinical Simulation Centre at CSU at Bathurst.

Nursing students currently enrolled in their second and third years at CSU in Orange have been reassured that their on campus lectures will continue and they will not be disadvantaged by changes to the way in which courses will be provided to students in the future.

A leading Canadian paramedic educator has joined the teaching staff of the pre-hospital care programs of the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU in Bathurst.