Associate Professor Charles Fogliani AM has had a life-long love affair…but his wife doesn’t mind. It’s Chemistry he feels passionate about and will devote even more time to now that he is retiring after 36 years at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

After the recent rejection of water recycling from sewerage by Toowoomba residents in southern Queensland, a Charles Sturt University expert in the social impact of water management says the “no” vote reflects public perceptions of risk in public health and environmental issues.

The future of Charles Sturt University was further secured recently when the CSU Council re-appointed Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Goulter, Chancellor Lawrie Willett AO and Deputy Chancellor Ian Macintosh AM. It is this team that recently unveiled CSU’s new five-year corporate strategy that Professor Goulter says will "focus on what we do well; deliver distinctive and quality educational programs for the professions, concentrate on our research on agricultural and regional sustainability, and lead the nation in distance education".

Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic Professor Lyn Gorman is among a select group of international scholars invited to address the annual Oxford Round Table in the United Kingdom in August.

Australia’s most influential players in childcare will debate Childcare - whose responsibility? in Sydney on Wednesday 9 August. The event will explore ways of improving access to quality childcare, and features a panel of some of Australia's leading childcare providers, experts and commentators, including Fran Press, Charles Sturt University (CSU) senior childhood education lecturer.

In a move that will see all CSU students benefit, Charles Sturt University (CSU) will take over all essential Student Association services with the introduction of Voluntary Student Unionism occurring in July this year.

"My advice was to give two votes per farm, initiate time-limited leadership positions, and introduce gender awareness training for industry bodies. The most radical recommendation I gave was bodies that do not represent gender equity should not be given government funding. Now that is the one that will really shake them up." Professor Margaret Alston, Director of Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Centre for Rural Social Research is talking about her recommendations to the Federal Government’s Inquiry into Women’s Representation on Rural and Regional Bodies of Influence.

"Being able to chat to the course coordinator and hear about his experience and what he has done in the field had a huge influence in my choosing Charles Sturt University (CSU)," says CSU first year Communication student Mitchell Shaddock. CSU will again showcase courses in advertising, commercial radio, journalism, public relations and theatre media at the second-ever iDay at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney on Saturday 26 August.

"Increasingly, people are accessing information from the internet as their first primary source. So instead of people going and buying newspapers, they log onto the internet. But how credible is this information?" asks Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Dr Edward Spence, senior lecturer in moral philosophy and applied and professional ethics in the School of Communication.