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.

Hunter Valley winemaker and NSW wine industry award winner Phil Ryan described studying at Charles Sturt University in the late 1970s as an exciting period in the evolution of the Australian wine industry.

In light of the national emergency summit on the current poor state of water storage in the Murray Darling Basin to be held today, Tuesday 7 November in Canberra, Charles Sturt University has researchers who can comment on the problems facing irrigators and communities in the region.

Charles Sturt University is mourning the passing of Melanie Andreazza, the third year Journalism student who died in a tragic car accident this week (1 November).

Charles Sturt University and Bathurst Regional Council will agree to develop strategies to attract new business and industry to the region when representatives of both organisations sign a formal Memorandum of Understanding on Monday.

Charles Sturt University and Victoria Police have been recognised with a joint award from the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers at its annual conference in Brisbane in October.

Every emergency crisis presents an opportunity for emergency managers, and the crisis communication response of the Queensland government to Cyclone Yasi will form an excellent case study for students at CSU.

The Dean of the Faculty of Science at CSU, Professor Nick Klomp, called on the Federal Government to accelerate its consideration of CSU's proposal for a new rural medical school in light of findings by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare that health services are becoming less accessible for the majority of people living in rural and regional Australia.

Leading Charles Sturt University research ranging from addressing the scourge of cereal cropping in southern Australia - annual ryegrass - to developing a computer game to simulate a major national crisis has won major funding in the latest round of Federal Government grants.