The similarities, differences, challenges and opportunities for rural school education in Canada and Australia are the focus of a public lecture by a visiting Canadian rural teaching expert at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 9 November.

Does language and cultural background affect how we detect lies and deception, and make judgements about credibility? Studies by a CSU PhD graduate found that research participants were not only generally poor at classifying lies and truths from individuals of their own culture, but also in a cross-cultural context.

The Kony 2012 campaign devised by the not-for-profit organisation Invisible Children is a powerful demonstration of the potential of social media as a political campaign tool, according to a CSU academic.

School students in Australia, Europe and North America will be able to view the transit of Venus across the face of the sun on Wednesday 6 June via the CSU Remote Telescope in Bathurst.

Over 800 university students are graduating from Charles Sturt University in four ceremonies being held across China.

A first-year paramedic student at CSU has put her books aside temporarily as her training intensifies for the K4 500 metre kayaking event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

CSU conferred an honorary doctorate on Reverend Dr Cho Seong Gi, the head of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, when he visited Adelaide on Monday 16 July.

A collaborative program operated by the CSU School of Human Movement Studies and the Western Region Academy of Sport in Bathurst for strength and conditioning interns has again received a prestigious award from the United States.

A CSU intelligence studies academic says there were many motivating factors for the Director General of the Australian Security and Intelligence Service to speak publicly last week for the first time since the organisation was established 60 years ago.