They have been hailed by one of their guardians as CSU's best kept secret, but the low key presence of olives at CSU may be about to end.

The establishment of a drought monitoring system in Australia using remote sensing tools is one project catching the attention of the new head of the International Centre of WATER for Food Security at CSU.

It is a matter of urgency that the impact of maternity unit closures on Australian women living in rural and remote areas is addressed, according to CSU midwifery academic Dr Elaine Dietsch.

A new health degree to be introduced by Charles Sturt University in 2009 will help address some of the gaps in health services in inland Australia.

Seven years on from the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, a CSU academic is posing the questions "what has changed" and "are we winning against terrorism"?

Gaining vital practical work experience in their degrees has become easier for some veterinary science students at CSU after they were named as the inaugural recipients of scholarships to assist them with essential part of their professional education.

CSU lecturer Dr Stephen Bird helped the Indonesian national team win medals at the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, China, shared a bus ride with Jamaican gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt, met the entire US Olympic basketball team, and narrowly missed catching the football David Beckham kicked into the crowd at the closing ceremony.

Journalism students at CSU will produce a daily newspaper for the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association annual conference – PANPA '08 – on Queensland's Gold Coast from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 September.

When nature didn't match the academic sessions for students of botany and ecology at CSU, one academic looked for a solution and came up with an innovative teaching method.