Although regarded as destructive pests that kill trees and devalue habitats, the parasitic mistletoe has been found to have another side by CSU researchers.

Much greater effort is needed if we are to stop the loss and degradation of the world's biodiversity according to the latest assessment report on the world's environment, the fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5), released on Wednesday 6 June. Director of CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society, Professor Max Finlayson, was a co-ordinating lead author of the report's chapter on biodiversity.

Representatives from CSU and the NSW Police Force will join with the NSW Deputy Premier, Minister for Trade and Investment and Minister for Regional Infrastructure and Services, the Hon. Andrew Stoner, to welcome 100 officers from the Indian Police Service, the third group to take part in an international training program.

Professional educators can gain a global perspective of teaching and learning when CSU offers its Master of International Education (School Leadership) to students from around the world through distance education in 2012.

A leading Australian theologian and CSU academic has returned from Indonesia where he was recently honoured for his long and distinguished service to inter-faith harmony and understanding.

Within six months of taking up a new position as Professor of Information Studies at CSU in Australia, Lisa Given has been named in a $AUD1.53 million research project to improve paediatric emergency care in her home country of Canada.

The failure of the joint Congressional committee convened to reach agreement on how to reduce the US budget deficit by US$1.2 trillion could see the United States follow a path similar to some European nations.

There should be no shortage of coverage of a new international study trip to rural India by communication and photography students from CSU in November.

Research into the aspirations of international students from non-English speaking backgrounds at Australian universities, challenges common preconceptions about how these students learn and the ways in which they are commonly taught and assessed at university.