Reflecting on her long career in higher education at CSU on the eve of her retirement, Associate Professor Leonora Ritter, the Head of the School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies, says her career has encompassed many changes, but her training as a historian has helped her to put those changes into perspective.

Fulfillling human needs using the ways in which nature benefits humans, or 'nature's services', could protect endangered plants and animals in the world’s poorest regions, says a leading CSU ecological researcher.

CSU commentators will be available to comment on various aspects of the Budget, which has been flagged as the most difficult for any government since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The film industry has been a global industry since it began and a new book by a CSU lecturer argues for the need for a more mature understanding and acceptance of the dynamic interaction between various national cinema cultures and Hollywood.

A CSU lecturer who previously worked with ABC journalist Sean Dorney says his expulsion from Fiji for reporting on the collapse of democracy there is a worrying development for the troubled Pacific nation and for the region.

Re-emerging concerns about food security is just one symptom of the declining trend in Australian agricultural productivity and in investment in agricultural research, according to Dr John Mullen, adjunct professor at the CSU Faculty of Business.

Indigenous academics at CSU wholeheartedly support the call by 2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Mick Dodson, for a national 'conversation' about changing the date and name of Australia Day.

CSU scientists in Albury-Wodonga will celebrate the 200th birthday of the 'father of evolution', Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution is one of the most significant advancements in our understanding of the natural world.

A CSU study looking at how rural landholders are responding to climate change or variability has found landholders who are traditional farmers are more optimistic about their ability to respond to future market and climatic conditions than 'lifestyle' landholders.