CSU will hold three graduation ceremonies in Albury from Thursday morning, 22 April, with 730 graduates eligible to receive their doctorates, degrees, diplomas and certificates.

With the commencement of spring session there are a number of highlights and achievements that I would like to report.

The vision of a university education for students in the Orana region long held by the late Tony McGrane will be recognised by the Tony McGrane OAM Memorial Scholarship Fund, recently established by the Head of Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Dubbo, Dr Beverley Moriarty.

Thousands of family members and friends of graduates are expected to throng to the city when the annual graduation ceremonies are held at CSU in Bathurst next week. Approximately 1 195 graduates will receive their academic awards from Chancellor Lawrie Willett, AO, at six graduation ceremonies on Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 May with a combined guest attendance expected to be about 4 000. A further 838 students will graduate in absentia.

The latest outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in the United Kingdom highlights the need for stringent biosecurity measures in Australia, according to Director of the Veterinary Science program at Charles Sturt University, Professor Kym Abbott.

An internship program with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will benefit Charles Sturt University (CSU) broadcast journalism cadets who are training with the University’s National Radio News (NRN) service.

On the third anniversary of the establishment in Bathurst of the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum which houses the renowned Somerville Collection, Professor John Hicks, Head of Bathurst Campus of Charles Sturt University (CSU), today announced that CSU will commit a further $200 000 over four years to support the Museum.

The proposed NSW legislation to protect paramedics (ambulance officers) from assaults is an important and symbolic action by the State government but it should not be the only protective intervention, according to a visiting Fulbright Scholar at CSU.

Research by a CSU academic and her international colleagues shows that lawyers overestimated or inflated the chances of achieving goals set for their clients in civil and criminal cases.