A volunteer team of Charles Sturt University students, in partnership with the Carevan Foundation, have been awarded a $6000 community service grant to help Wodonga children in need of urgent dental care.

An Aboriginal Elder with decades of experience working to improve education and social justice for Indigenous Australians has been appointed as the inaugural Elder-In-Residence at the CSU Centre for Indigenous Studies in Dubbo.

CSU Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) students will soon be getting hands-on experience in a range of new settings thanks to a pilot program at CSU in Port Macquarie.

CSU Director of Corporate Affairs Mr Mark Burdack has welcomed support from Senator Fiona Nash and Riverina MP Michael McCormack for a Murray Darling Medical School.

Representatives of CSU and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate the recruitment of CSU Indigenous students from a range of disciplines to the ABC.

CSU's new Port Macquarie campus is another step closer with the appointment of APP Corporation (APP) as the project director.

A project to help CSU students build specialist capacity in small rural towns across Australia will be expanded in 2013 to new communities and professions.

CSU will offer registered nurses two new ways to advance their knowledge with the Master of Nursing (with specialisations) and the Master of Clinical Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) courses to begin in 2014.

CSU's announcement it would build a campus of its proposed medical school in Wagga Wagga has prompted an enthusiastic response from residents.