The CSU School of Nursing and Midwifery at Orange is the first to receive state-of-the-art facilities and equipment at the new Nursing Experiential Learning Centre which opens on Friday 13 November.

The CSU on campus student advertising agency, Kajulu Communications, has won the finals of the International Advertising Association's National 'Big Idea' Advertising competition on Monday 9 November for the fifth time in seven years.

CSU has secured the rights to host the annual RoboCup Junior competition for schools across central west NSW starting in June 2010 through to 2012.

Around 150 academic staff at CSU will have their leadership in tertiary learning and teaching on show this week when they meet for the CSUED 2009 conference at CSU at Albury-Wodonga.

Two academics at CSU will have distinctive roles at the Australian Association For Research In Education 2009 International Education Research Conference in Canberra from Sunday 29 November to Thursday 3 December.

The English literacy skills of teenage refugees in regional NSW have been boosted in the first trial of an Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation program outside the Sydney metropolitan area.

Australian agriculture was always going to be excluded from any carbon trading scheme, according to CSU expert Professor Kevin Parton.

Research on the weed serrated tussock, the invading ants on Fraser Island in Queensland, and the larvae of our native fish feature in the latest issue of Connections, the quarterly newsletter of CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society.

The most prestigious award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Leyton Memorial Medal, has been awarded to a CSU academic in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Bathurst at a presentation dinner in Melbourne on Friday 27 November.