Leading inland higher education provider Charles Sturt University has specialist researchers available for comment on drought issues such as agricultural production and water use, access to services and impacts on families, regional businesses and communities.

A two day wine industry event on Monday 13 and Tuesday, 14 November at Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Wagga Wagga Campus will bring together researchers, winemakers and representatives of the peak wine research and funding bodies. Together, they will discuss the future of winemaking and winegrowing in New South Wales.

Those ‘first day at school’ anxieties won’t be a problem for young children in the Dubbo region thanks to a project coordinated by six Charles Sturt University (CSU) students which concludes this Friday.

In America, they are called "no fly lists" – a list of people that government and the airlines consider to be security threats. But how is such a list compiled, and how does someone like Senator Edward Kennedy end up on a "no fly list"? Professor John Kleinig recently received a prestigious American National Science Foundation grant worth US$243 000 to look at the way increasingly advanced surveillance technologies impact on privacy and autonomy.

The Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACCC) has announced the appointment of two eminent Australians to the Board of the ACCC. They are Lieutenant General (Retd) John Sanderson AC, and the newly installed Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Mark Coleridge.

It is no secret that inland Australia is suffering from a chronic shortage of health workers. Charles Sturt University (CSU) researchers have found that in some regional areas, rural ambulance paramedics are already evolving innovative practises to becoming front line primary health care providers.

"One of the issues is how quickly digital information can disappear. We all know the frustration of coming across a dead link on the Internet. The life cycle of digital information is much more volatile than a printed book. We need to be pro-active about trying to preserve this kind of information," says Jake Wallis, Lecturer in Library and Information Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University (CSU) Professor Ian Goulter today congratulated the new leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, The Hon. Kevin Rudd, MP. Mr Rudd is a member of the Board of CSU’s Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACCC) in Canberra.

Research that could help HIV/AIDS and cancer patients retain muscle mass and independent living has won the inaugural national award from the Australian Association for Exercise and Sport Science (AAESS).